| Show ISSUES Of THE DAY By Anson MacNaught I GERMANY KILLING HER OWN TR TRADE A DE Slow Slowly but none the tho less surely and relentlessly the life lire I is being crushed out of Germanys Germany's world trade trade not not for forthe forthe forthe the duration of the the- war only but for forthe forthe forthe the Ions long years of peace that shall follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low it Germany has ha outraged civilization civili and must pay lay the price price price-in In eventual military defeat to be sure but also In commercial and arid economic d downfall om fall The handwriting on the wall though perfectly clear to normal eyes has not yet been seen by most Germans They still BUll believe the they will win the war and that with victory they can got any anything thinS thinS' thoy they want from a helpless helpless helpless help help- less and cringing Ins worl world But there is one German keener than the tho rest who sees the future with Unclouded unclouded unclouded un un- clouded vision Ho He Is Herr Baum brains of tho the Hamburg-American Hamburg line and one of oC the tho great leaders In the shipping world lIe He sees Germany German as asber asher asher her ber own executioner destroying estro ins her own trade and ruining her future by a a. policy of frightfulness that has won tho the active hostility of ot the whole civilIzed civilized civil civil- world In a 3 recent letter to Dr German privy councillor which fell feU into the hands of or tho the British Herr Baum Ballin said among amonS' other othor things You and I. I dear herr privy councillor coun coun- were never advocates of ot this fa fatal fatal fatal fa- fa tal policy of unrestricted submarine warfare You will remember how I went to Berlin to to seek to stay the tho hand handor of or the tho authorities I 1 begged begge them to reflect and they told me mo the tho country country country coun coun- try Insisted on It This was not true I pointed out how it would Inevitably draw the United States Into the eon con They p pooh pooh oh-pooh me mc smiled t at the states and scorned her threat Do thc they smile now In my opinion tho the en entry entry entry en- en try of tho the United States Into this struggle le mo may spell absolute disaster for us Our people have little or 01 no knowledge of the American character You and I have made a a. most careful study of it What stuff our publicists and Journalists write about their Mamman worship their greed their envy of oC other nations their lack Jack of or discipline dis lUS- dis- dis oh oh that blessed word discipline discipline pline You and I know that the Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans are probably the most idealistic nation on the tho earths earth's surface Wo We know that they would not have entered the tho lists of or our foes had the they ha had 1 any doubt as to the justice of their cause Nonsense to say the they have been in influenced influenced in- in by Britain We e are mad not notto notto notto to see whore we arc are and whither we weare weare weare are driving drIvinS' In antagonizing the tho United States vo wo have done a disastrous thing a thing thing- which will throw Its cold shadow shadow shadow shad shad- ow on our economic life for fOl a genera genera- tion ion But if it I am concerned about our relations with the tho United States I am still more anxious about our relations relations' with Britain I realize as never nover be before before before be- be fore that all the increase In our wealth all success which attended our enterprises enterprises enter enter- In the years before were owing to our Intercourse with the tho British empire Her home ports her dominions dominions domin domin- ions and amI colonies were ere freely opened to our shippers and traders Sometimes I wondered at this generosity and even called it folly Is It to be imagined for a moment that those old relations will return 1 The question on i is ellS easily It answered They will not Neither will wm Germanys Germany's old relations with France and nud Ita Italy with the tho United StateS Stated and in indeed eed with the entire new world return There is is such a thing as sentiment and once maS' maS magic c phase Made In Germany German will I Inot not be bo popular In civilized countries I after alter the war J |
