Show fi- fi Profiteers and rid E Exports or J I HOWEVER much we may may despise th the profiteer la large g and small t 1 and rega regardless of the sincere wish that his tribe soon may g gout go out of existence and and never again be ibe e reproduced to vex the the mind nind and arid tax the pocketbook of the confiding and long suffering Ameni American Ameri Amen can i public it is co considered right and proper r to rise in meeting as it itAvere sere and offer a slight prot protest st ag against some of the statements cn contained c in a sermon delivered by on one of the l leading JA g S Salt IL La Lake c. c divines vines last This discourse which was as usual forceful and arid masterful was in denunciation of the tie profiteer as was was perfectly p proper oper The minister however pi placed ced all the blame for the existing high prices es upon th the profiteer He He declared that Europeans were were buying practically nothing of th the United States because they had no not the wherewith to purchase and th that t as a result there was wasa a a of everything in this country and that everything would be serene as to c cost sf of f living were were it not for the detestable profiteer r. r CO Contrary r ry to this argument some some cold facts and export figures sho shW f that Europe ope is continuing 0 to buy of of the United States States either for or on credit an amount of goods ne never er eq equaled in pre prewar ar tithes times and maintaining a record in this respect t nearly equal to the the high mark attained n 4 soon after the close of pt f th the war I 1 American exports during March as an example amounted to tot o the immense sum of of which Europe's buying I t represented 56 per cent cent or more o e th than n half lf of l the e tot total l. l It Ii Iii i is tr true e eI that exports to two tiVo of Americas America's allies showed a decline while in 10 inI I the case of England the increase was vas fully 75 per cent In addition addi addi- i I lion tion for American AmerIcan exports to Germany during March Marc r reached ached practically z I as against nothing hing during th the s same e month t last year f I I 1 Other sections ns of the world besides Europe are demanding American goods in ln increasing numbers It is shown shown- that C Canada ud nad 1 Cuba and Japan combined bought American goods to a total of oJ in in March as compared with only i during the same sam month in 1919 t. t The Lord knows that the profiteers profiteer's s 's conscience if he has one I t i is so burd burdened ned t that t. t it should h ld never per permit it him him to s 's sleep ep but if if i it is Wight right to give the devil his due then it is wron wrong to burden the profiteer with more contumely than tha justly belongs to him |