Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-14
MARYLAND SENATOR
POINTS BENEFITS OF
TRADE WITH RUSSIA
France Issues Statement Es-
pousing Measure Before
u. S. Senate.
HEARING Is SET
FOR JANUARY 26

Washington. Jan ia statement
given ont bv Senator Joseph l.. France
of MARYLAND. gives reasons wmch nc
believes should move this country To
engage in trade with Russia without
further delay. NJ,
January 26 the Senate Foreign Rela-
,;ons Committee will hold a pubic hear
irg on the France bill, providing, Tor
trade relations with Russia, at which
time. the Senator says, a group OF laDof
leaders, economists and Others Will ap-
PEAR 10 support the measure;
Meanwhile he informs the country
that unparalleled opportunities Tor pront
10 American farmers and producers are
going 10 waste; that Russians want vast
quantities of goods from Amenca; that
thev are able TO pay for what they neeo
and that il is quite possible TO do buslness
with that country without encouraging
Rolshevism. He does not indicate, how
ever. how il is possible TO trade with
that country safely without granting
measure Of recognition TO the SOVIET gov
crnment. ,
Th,, Senator's statement Is as follows: !:
.'The Foreign Relations Committee oi
the Senate has set January % for hear
ing upon my resolution introduced Feb-
ruarv 81, which provides Tor the reopen
ING of trade with Russia.
II think that this hearing Will afford
tho American people an opportunity oi
becoming familiar with the unparalleled
trade onportunitics which are now TO
II, found in Russia The interest IN TINS
resolution has been growing, partlcu-
l,tly during the last few weeks. Support
for II is coming from every quarter
from labor organizations, from CONNER
I'm bodies. from manufacturers, from
Sn,,t ,thcrn cotton planters and from hui
,nauitstian societies We expect TO have
a. the hearing some of the most dis
iii g,iished leaders of organized labor
Il The United States, Jacques Margultc,
hc Russian economist; the American
commercial Association, body OF busl-
ress men Interested in opening up trade
thc America Women's Emergency Com
mittce. and other very important IN
terests.
81 the world has so great 4 country as
Russia been practically cut OIL for 3
period of wears from the sources OF sup
plv Of manufactured articles and of Ger
tain raw Products. 1t is not an exaggera-
lion 70 say that the Russian markets are
great enough to absorb the greater part
~ our manufactured articles for several
years 20 come Ii has been estimated
that Russia needs at once 25,O0O. 600 pairs
az shoes, from one TO two million bales
of cotton. great quantities Of woolen
goods, and a half million dollars worth
81 supplies for the repair of the rolling
stock Of the railways.
Other countries have not been slow TO
see the opportunity there. Great Britain
has already drawn up trade contracts and
shipments of goods are reported to have
gone. Italy and Germany have already
for some time been doing business with
Russia. From the American standpoint
alone il is most important 10 open up this
great market.
The opening up OF trade relations will
not encourage Bolshevism, but It will
rather tend ~ encourage a return by the
Russians to more conservative and
rstional institutions. IL Is unfortunate
,hs. as vet we have formulated no foreign
trade policy and no international policy
which looks TO the far future.
Russia and China, and possibly the
Central Empires, are naturally sympa-
,hetic with the United States and we
should do everything possible to cement
the Russians and the Chinese, partieu-
larly so If we are 10 be made secure
against the schemes OF the great aggres-
sive empires, such as japan, which are
showing a lack Of understanding of our
aims and purposes. The Russians and
Chinese feel a warm friendship for ATnerl-
ca and we should cultivate this friend
snip.