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Show H THE GERMAN METHOD H Germans leave nothing to chance. They H study the situation in advance and then H lay their plans accordingly. We may ad- fl mire their thoroughness though we do M not care to emulate their methods. Think m of a government that issues instructions M to its representatives advising them to M minister to the weaknesses and deprav fl ities of their customers in order to gain H trade.; The same hellish, calculating B coldbloodedness which caused their en- H trance into war and wheh caused so m many of their fiendish atrocities, is to be H extended into their war for commercial M 8upcrmacy. H Hereafter, according to dispatches, the B commercial travelers are to be govern- M ment officials. Detailed instructions are M issued to them, among them being the H folowing: M "No useful detail' should escape the at-B at-B tention of an efficient commercial trav-Ht trav-Ht eler. 'When you have to deal with a dif-B dif-B ficult customer, and when "you Jiaye, x-H x-H hausted ail-the devices set. out -in your H manual to other means; find out the clis-B clis-B tomer's weaknesses and exploit1 tliem; H feed him or pander to his passions; ot-M ot-M fer him his favorite wine;" give him a H, good humor; take Him to the theatre; H spend money on him. and on his friends H and on all who can advertise you and H your wares; all outlay will be refunded to H you by your employer or by ourselves, the H Department o,Comnierce." M President Wilson Jias said that we have H no quarrel with.the German people. Menial Meni-al bers of his cabinet are at this very mo-H mo-H ment planning to import potash and dye-M dye-M stuffs in exchange for our foodstuffs, al-H al-H leging that it will not be detrimental to M our domestic industries to do so. It seems m that there is planning on both sides of H the sea, both in Germany and in our Free . H' Trade cabinet. Just how the Germans go. H about it is outlined above. "Exploit his IB' weaknesses, feed him, give him his favor-H favor-H ate wine, pander to His passions." We H wonder if there are any Germna commer-H commer-H clal travelers in Washington at the pres-H pres-H ent time. Or are they all in the federal m . penitentiaries? We believe that there B are laws on the statute books of the Unit-H Unit-H ed States which would exclude every Ger-H Ger-H man commercial traveler" from landing H' in this country, and we respectfully invite H' the attention of our immigration officials H to the fact that these men are nothing but H "panders" duly commissioned by the Ger-H Ger-H iiian government as corruptois of human-H- ity. American Economist. |