The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-25

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator f.
". Simmons, retiring chairman of the
finance committee, declares that foreign
countries will not be permitted to dump
boarded products in the United States to
kill new industries after the peace procla-
nation is issued
4 doubt if there is any danger of such
a thing, but in case Germany or any 9th,
.er country should attempt it there would
be legislation to block her" said he.
Democrats, am sure, would oppose any
such movement on the part of a foreign
country, and propose and urge revision
OF the tariff laws to make it impossible.
1t looks now as if the countries that
are emerging from the war will need all
they have III the way OF supplies, and
can make in the near future, for their
own people. There is a great shortage OF
the necessities of life and materials foy
home building and manufacturing.
No doubt the Republicans of the pres,
ent congress viii try to pass a general
tariff law, providing for protection, but
they cannot succeed The near future
VIII bring out the facts upon which leg
lslatlve policy should be based
This statement of Senator Simmons in.
dlcates that congress will not allow Ger
many to unload great quantities of dye
stufts, chemicals, toys, potash, cutlery
and other speeialties Other Democrat
have similar views
At the beginning of the war the United
States was dependent upon Germany fol
| practically all her dyes and most of heI
ingredients for commercial fertilizers. The
government encouraged Americans to de
velop industries to produce the thing,
| that had come from Germany. Chees,
factories We're among the new enterprise,
that sprang up all over the United States
he American toy factories became popu
| lar Many other plants were created t.
supply demands that GERMANY and othe
foreign countries had supplied before th
war
1 Germany had complete monopoly Of
/ potash. Those in charge of the industr,
| were pirates. They crushed everybod
L who crossed them in their efforts to con
troll the Strade. If a competitor began t
Il flourish they killed him off by dumpin
goods in his territory at low price IN
til he was squelched Then they woul
raise again.
Immediately after the outbreak OF wa
American potash enterprises began to d,
velop. Among the projects that mad
promising beginnings were the Scarle'
Lake, in California; the Lucite, Wye
ming; the Alunite, Utah. and the Erin
Lake, Nebraska. In addition potash
| being extracted from kelp weed, the re-
idQe from cement, beet sugar and othC
sources
The potash industry developed rapid
and soon s5o,000,000 had been invested
plants. The Nebraska industry cost frol
Sl2o00,0O0 to $l5,000o00. The output il
creased until it reached a capacity CT x
tons per day at the close of the war.
4 Government officials have been informc
that during the war Germany manufa
I tuted a great mass of potash to hurry
the United States to kill the new indu
tries and exchange for food supplies. Ele
j EN- thousand three hundred and sixty pri
loners OF war. We're used to get out Il
potash, which has been boarded. IT h
! been suggested that it be brought ov
1 as. ballast These reports coming fro
Germany have frightened the domcst
producers
1 The German dyestuffs monopoly W
Just as destructive to American man
faetnerS, and it is a repetition OF t
4 old methods members of congress wor
: prevent