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Show GERMANY CI BUT SEND CHEAP GOODS Writer Ridicules Idea That Teutons Will Dump Products Prod-ucts on World. COUNTRY IS TOO BUSY Forty Per Cent of Factories in Empire Now Making War Materials. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Sept. 30. George Bernhard, one of the foremost German political and economic authorities, in the Vossische Zeitung ridicules the idea that Germany will use the present belligerent and all neutral countries as a dumping ground for cheap goods after the war. He says: The word "dumping" Is used as a bugaboo by the British press propaganda propa-ganda In America to create sentiment against Germany, and it has become a kind of a slogan in France and England. Eng-land. The British. French and American public is told that the German manufacturers manu-facturers after the' war will flood all countries with their products and sell them below cost to kill competition and to ruin the industries of their opponents op-ponents and the United States. Even otherwise sensible and serious seri-ous French papers like the Journal des Debats and the Paris Gaulois go into hysterics over this alleged peril and a part of the American press, j like the British papers, clamors for an insurmountable tariff wall against all German products. Making War Materials. It is hardly worth while to contradict contra-dict tills nonsense, because the French in their fanaticism are deaf to all arguments, ar-guments, and the British, who know better, will continue their campaign against German commerce at home and In neutral countries, because they are firmly resolved to keep the trade of the world under their absolute control con-trol forever. Even a man with limited knowledge of the economic principles which govern gov-ern international commerce knows that the flooding of the foreign markets mar-kets with cheap German goods Is out of the question for very simple reasons, rea-sons, c - - - ln the first place, Germany is not able to pile up great stocks of products prod-ucts during the war. because the necessary nec-essary raw materials cannot be obtained ob-tained and more than 40 per cent of the factories of the empire are making mak-ing war materials. The remai-ning industrial in-dustrial establishments are hardly able to supply the domestic demand and cannot think of storing up surplus sur-plus stocks. Cash Is Too Scarce. Dumping of German goods, even if they could be produced during the war, would only be possible under a system of subsidies. The government would have to cover the losses suffered suf-fered by the manufacturers in trying to conquer the foreign markets by underselling. The subsidies necessary for .such a campaign of commercial conquest would amount to billions of dollars and the financial condition of G-er-niany at the end of the war will make I he payment of such sums an impossibility. impos-sibility. The German manufacturers and merchants will, of course, try to re-pain re-pain the foreign trade lost through the war, but they will fight competition competi-tion in the same way as they have clone before, by furnishing the best goods that can be made at a reasonable reason-able profit. There will be no dumping anywhere In the world, at least not on the fmrt of Germany. |