The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-26
CARAVAN WARNS OF
GERMAN TRADE WAR
Property Custodian Says Teu-
tons Are Bent on Ruth
less Campaign.
SEES MENACE TO COTTON
Declares Teutons Are Work
ing on Plan to Make Sub
stitute for Cloth.

Manufacturers at the Hotel Biltmore last
night as hitting occasion on which to
warn all American manufacturers using
chemicals and dyes that they must either
give their whole support to American
makers OF these products or fall back
Into the state of pre-war dependence on
Germans. who had a monopoly OF dye
rnd chemical making and controlled the
markets OF the world.
Mr.. Caravan explained TO the cotton
men how they. as representing one Of the
great branches OF textile manufacture.
held in effect a balance of power which
can either give the enterprise Of Ameri-
can dye making permanent life or de-
stroy It. He told Of the plans Of the Ger
mans for the recapture OF the American
market and made clear how their Inn
mense money Investment spells ruin COR
the Germans unless they can regain a
great part OF their old control. He
brought this out 10 show that in their
desperate situation they will hesitate
at no means which may tend to accom-
plish their object.
He warned his listeners also, quoting
German documents TO prove II, that
among other OF the German schemes Is
plan for the making OF synthetic cotton
hbre for the purpose OF the overthrow
of king Cotton" In the United States,
ana he explained fully the organization
Of the American Chemical Foundation.
through which Il Is planned to encour-
age and foster the making OF dyes and
chemicals here and destroy the German
clutch for all time
THE war may be over" ~. Garvan
declared but II IL over only because
inarstrial Germany which actually con-
trciled Imperial Germany, realized that
II was useless to wage II longer and in
triA Al ~ AZ,
tn continue her trade war by all manner
of intensified and concentrated meas
ures"
For nineteen months" said Mr.. Gar
van In beginning his speech, 81 have
been engaged in a study Of German in
dustrial life and Its manifestations and
activities In the United States and I
come here tonight to give you as briefly
rs / may few OF the incontrovertible
facts which my experience has made
clear.
First and foremost, be Il understood
that this was an Industrial war. brought
on by industrial Germany in her lust
mad haste to capture the markets OF
the world Industrial Germany In its
arrogance and pride preferred the for
Uidable hazard of battle to the pro-
Gressive and sure inf1ltration which
within ten or twenty years might well
have given world domination to her.
Industrial Germany was In control
of Imperial Germany. Industrial Ger
many sympathlzed and participated In
the preparation for this war. Industrial
Germany waged this war. Industrial
Germany was the first TO see defeat and
forced the military peace. In order that
with her industrial equipment intact she
might continue that same war by In
tensifed and concentrated economic
measures
Her ambitions are the same in peace
snd In war. Her methods are the same
in peace and in war. Destroy your
business competitor by state aid. cartel
combination. dumping. full line forcing
bribery, theft OF patents or Inventions
espionage and propaganda! Destroy
your military adversary by tearing UP
sacred treaties. by unlicensed and I'M
warfare. by the destruction of factories
mines and vineyards. by terrorism and
vandalism
Vow or I have yet to hear one word
OF change of heart or purpose one
word OF regret or shame one word Of
dispraise for any leader In the pas
holocaust. On the other hand, hold tc
the fact that at this moment the foui
men best fitted to conduct a ruthes.
economic war upon this country. tn,
four men who planned. instigated ant
paid for all the black history Of law
iessness under which we suffered fol
two and a half yearo-Aibert, Dern
burg, Boy-Ed and Bernstorff-are tn,
helmsmen OF the present German Gov
eminent DR.. Heinrich Albert is nov
Under Secretary OF state, Herr Bern
hard Dernburg is now Minister OF Fl
nance Boy-Ed Is director of the inteili
gence section of the Foreign Office tn
espionage and propaganda division, an,
that arch criminal. Bernstorff is owe
them all, directing and leading the new
Government In many of its depart
rnents.
Has the war ended for you?
at was Germany's chemical su
premncy that gave her confidence 4
her avaricious dream OF world empire
II was Germany's chemical supremac
that enabled her TO wage four years o
pitless warfare. And Il II Germany
chemical supremacy upon which she re
lies to continue this war: and for tina
supremacy she pays homage to her dy
industry and counts upon that dye in
dustry 10 maintain IT,
"She realizes that her dye industr
constitutes her keenest wedge with whlc
TO force her way back into the wor'
trade. She now calls the dye industr
her chief Protective industry and ha
laid out for 1t programme OF stat
protection and aid which should start
us She proposes to use the allege
necessities OF the world for her dyes
force all her other exports In oth'
words, she proposes TO use II as n clu
with which to fight her way back I'M
commercial society.
As result our young but vlgoroI
industry stands here to-day In dire
competition, no; only with the great Ge
man trust, but with that sustained an
supported and subsidized by the emit,
strenRth and wealth OF the Germa
kingdom
lover three billion dollars Of annu
business in America, including yours, a.
dependent upon the dye industry.
there any doubt that the destruction
the American industry means your e
sia vernent to that trust?
zone other thought want you to ha'
IN mind Is this For four years now Il
chemical science developed by the d!
industry OF Germany has focused
mind largely upon substitutes for Il
raw material she has hitherto receive
from the outside world. The leader
her chemical Industry In this countr
DR.. Hugo Schweitser. once wrote to b
Government:
",Aii these endeavors to substitu
cotton may appear ridiculous to US WI
have been brought up with the idea tn
Cotton In King and that America h
been designed by fate to supply II
fibre TO the civilized world. The farme
who cultivated the madden root. and 7
nianters who raised indigo were also
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