Show THAT EUROPEAN BOYCOTT From the New York World They arc at It again I In i Kurope with a scheme for I a commercial boycott of the United States In the eight months ending with February of this year we sent to Germany Ger-many alone mon than eleven million bushels of wheat and nearly six hundred hun-dred thousand barrels of flour over five million bushels of corn nearly Severn million pounds of cured beef nearly twelve million pounds of bacon almost a million pounds of ham I over two million mil-lion pounds of pork a hundred and cloven million pounds of lard and sixteen six-teen million pounds of oleomargarine We sold provisions to the other European Euro-pean countries In proportion Of course the people who raise similar simi-lar things would like to shut our products pro-ducts out but what about the people who eat them It Is uphill work to induce in-duce a community to keep up a permanent perma-nent boycott on its brcadbasiket and meatbarrel An embargo on American foodstuffs would be more likely to produce pro-duce famine and revolution In the Old World than seriously to Injure the American farmer |