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Warring Nations Must Make Friends WithU.S.or Go Hungry
Because United States Grows World’s Food, and
Is Strietly Neutral, It Is in Position to Make
Its Own Terms to Belligerents.
By JONATHAN WINFIELD.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 —Despite the fact that the United
States is taking no active part in the European war, it is apparent
to all watchers that Uncle Sam and his vast wheat crop are play
ing & most important role in the hostilities and upon the measure
in which the contesting countries obtain their foodstuffs from the
United States may depend the final
outcome of the struggle
: The United States produces more
‘whest than any other single counwry
in the world.
_ Only one of the wurrin[ogmwern
(Russis) produces more food than
‘she needs for her own consumption.
. Germany and Austria are practi
‘eally helpless if cut off from foreign
~production.
~ Government officlals now go 8o far
‘aB to predict that, should we have
‘another civil war which would crip
ple our internal industries and tie up
‘shipping. the rest of the world would
practically starve. All of which goes
to show that the vital position held
By the United States, not only in the
present war, but in the future of the
world itself,
; Can Make Own Terms.
~ In the present war the United
States, 'lg dumper crops, a wheat
_production of 250,000,000 bushels more
‘than the average for the past ten
years, a occupying a position of
jte meutrality with the power to
9 neutrality, will be able to
k 8 its own terms
Raae fromi Russia, only two ha
pns Involved in war produce more
fereals of any kind than they need
lor thelr own consumption. Germany
exports 7,054,907 bushels of rye an
nually, and Austria-Hungary ralses
annually 19,646,675 bushels more of
barley than is consumed within her
borders.
In meat products the countries al-
Hed with the Triple Entente produce
nearly twice as many cattle and five
times as many sheep as Germany and
‘Austria-Hungary combined. The
Teutonic allies produce about a third
more swine than do their opponents,
but pork makes poor food for a
marching army,
Nations' Shortage.
Germany and Austria-Hungary,
with a total population of 110,432,740,
face an annual shortage in wheat of
72,000,000 bushels, the gverage yearly
consumption per capita for these two
gountries being 8.99 bushels under
grdinary circumstances.
countries of the Triple Entente
'a net shortage of wheat of 90,-
fids Protect Fire Policies
OFf All Foreign Countries
CHICAGO, Aug. 22 —Bonds depos
fted with American trustees safe
guard the hundreds of milllons of dol
lars in policies written in this coun
try by English and German fire in
surance companies. The war, togeth
‘er with the breakdown of interna
tiona] credit relations, has aroused in
terest in the method by which these
companies would discharge their ob
\“‘luoul to American policyholders in
avent of large fire losses.
Chicago representatives of these
companies pointed out that the in
surance laws of the various States
make the same requirements of the
foreign companies with respect to ve
serves as of the domestic risk con
cerns. The bonds or other securities
in which the American reserves of the
forelgn corporations are invested
must be deposited with United States
trustees. Such assets are available
for payment of losses in this country
without assistance from the head of
fices across the Atlantic, which thé
managers declare would be needed
enly in the event of a great confla
gration of the magnitude of the San
Francisco disaster.
Provisions of Law.
These trusteeships are organized
under the laws of New York. The
deed of trust provides that the trus
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the tiny nerve threads in the skin lose
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and pature must have heip. Now, the
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pels, nerves and & modified form of mu
cous membrane in which blood !mpuri
tiee are prepared for elimination.
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000,000 spread over a population of
250,142,f25. The average per capita
consumption annually for the coun
tries which do not export is 7.78
bushels. Russia alone of all the
couniries in the Triple Entente ex
ports wheal, She annually sends
abroad 150,000,000 bushels. This av
erage has allowed Russia to main
tain the lead among wheat exporting
countries up to this year. With the
added advantage of the war in Eu
rope, the Unlus States will jump far
in the van, but first place, would have
‘been hers anyhow on account of her
‘bumper crops.
| Russia’s Advantage.
| Ruyswia has an advantage over all
the other countries engaged In the
war because of immense autput of all
kinds of cereals. Aside from her ex
port of more than 160,000,000 bushelx
of wheat, her corn export rurns up
ward of 40,000,000 bushels and her
trade An oats {8 one of the largest in
‘the world, |
In contrast to the figures of all
countries, except Russla, statistics for
the United States show that of the
cereals we import only rice and a
comparatively small amount of that.
On the other hand, our exports in
many cases exceed the imports of
some of the larger countries. \
The live stock flgures for the coun
tries embroiled in the war are quite
as interesting as are those for cereals.
Here 1s the table prepared by the De- |
partment of Agriculture to show how]
the sinews of war in the Triple En
tente and the Dual Alllance compare: 1
Austria Cattle. Swine, Sheop.
Hungary .... 17,788,000 14,540,000 18,477,000
Germany ..... 20,182,000 21,024,000 5,803,000
Belglum ..... 1,831,000 1,349,000
France ....... 14,706,000 6,904,000 16,468,000
Russts ....... 86,302,000 13,521,000 48,176,000
Servia ....... 858,000 864,000 8,809,000
Great Britain.. 11,860,000 3,334,000 I'l.m.oon*
Examination of these figures show”
that the Dual Alllance raises 27920 -
000 cattle, 36,464,000 swine and 18,-
270,000 sheep, against 65,766,000 cat
tle, 25,072,000 swine and 96,277,000
sheep for the Triple Entente and
their allies. Except In the cases of
Indian and Siberian wheat, these fig
ures do not take in the exports of the
various colonial possessions.
tees “have not the right or power to
reduce the aggregate of the deposit so
In trust with them without the pre
vious consent fn each case of the su
perintendent of the State Insurance
Department.”
P. W. Cadman, assistant manager
of the Royal Insuance Company, Lim
{ted, in this city, sald:
“The American business of the for
eign fire insurance companies is kept
wholly separate from that of the
home offices. The American depart
ments of thesq companies, operating
under State {aws, are subject to the
same reserve requirements as Amer
fcan companies. The Royal has $12,-
599,000 of assets in this country in
vested in United States securities. Of
this $8,297,000 {s surplus over all re
serve requirements and other labili
ties. 1 might say that the regulations
governing the foreign companies here
are_even more strict than those ap
plied to the American fire insurance
companies. The assets of the latter
are at the disposition of their boards
of directors, while the securities of
foreign companies deposited wnh‘
trustees may not be disturbed ex
cept with the express consent of the
New York Insurance Superintendent.”
George E. Haas, Western manager
of the Atlas Insurance Company, Ltd,,
explained the situation as follows:
“The reserve requirements against
fire insurance policles range from 90
per cent to 100 per cent of the pre
mium collected, depending upon the
length of time the policy has to run.
All these reserves are Kept in this
country in the hands of trustees. The
only contingency under which the for
eigh companies would have to rely on
aid from the general offices abroad
would be a great conflagration like
the San Francisco fire. Our reserves
are invested chiefly n Government,
State and municipal bonds, wigch at
‘all times are most easily convertible
into cash.
} Deposit of $200,000.
“Every foreign insurance company,
‘before it {s permitted to do business
in this country, must deposit a cap
ital fund with some State authority.
As New York is the customary State
of entry, these deposits are held by
the Insurance Superintendent of that
Commonwealith, The deposit required
of each company is $§200,000.”
Forelgn corporations doing a cas
ualty or guarantee business are re
quired, llke the fire companies, to de
posit reserves with American trus
tees
With regard to Lloyds of London,
the situation is different. Not being a
stock company, Lloyds does not oper
ate under the same regulations as ap
'ply to corporations. In recent years
vast amounts of Llloyds policies have
' been written in the United States.
'Being in the nature of individual con
}!rans. they are subject to the usual
legal reserve requirements. It {s not
necessary for Lloyds to deposit se
curities with United States trustees,
"az:d the finances are conducted alto
gether in London. Credit relations
lbetween this country and England
are being restored, and there is no
|xeasnn to anticipate delay in the set
tlement of Lloyds' contracts in the
United States. The Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Compary cairied $§21,000,000
insurance with Lloyds and none with
| the reguiarly admitted companies.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERIUAN, ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY AUGUST 23, 1914.
Dixie Is Urged to :
Go After the Trade
Of South America |
{ “, OUTHERN manufacturers
§ and merchants should
! promptly seize the opportunity
! owing to the war for extending
{ thelr trade with South American
{ countries, pargicularly with Ar
! gentina and Uruguay, on account
{ of the direct steamship service to
! shese countries through Mobile,
fdoclam Charles Lyon Chandler,
3/ South American agent for South.
{ern Railway, Mobile and Ohlo
2 Rallway and Queen and Crescent
; Route,
{ Southern manufacturers, he
; says, should get trade, particularly
;,In machinery, metal articles and
{ cotton goods.
( Mr, Chandier will furnish any
! Information In regard to South
( American markete frem his offics
{ In Chattanooga, Tenn,
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Brazilian Consul
Tells How to Get
Nation’s Trade
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| By BIUAHT R. ALEXANDER.
Consul in Chicago for the Republic
¢f Brazil.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.—The manufac
turers of the United States are facing
the greatest opportunity they ever
have had to extend their trade into
the countries of South America. If
they will only use the same intelli
gence that they have used in extend
ing their trade in this country they
can command the South American
market.
The Buropean war, the most mon
strous crime of the age, will shut
lurope out of the South American
market for at least a year, and no
body knows how much longer. The
Napoleonic wars shut Burope off for
twenty-five years, and this present
conflict may be worse by far than
the Napoleonic wars,
Markets Undeveloped.
1 think the reason the United States
has never developed the markets of
its southern neighbors is that this
country is the wonder of the world
of the nineteenth century in devel
‘opment. Manufacturers and those en
gaged In commerclal pursuits have
‘had the finest mearkets in ths world
right here at home, while on the
other side of the water, per contra,
Germany, England, France and all the
others have had to go abroad for
their markets,
Speaking for Brazil, I know this
country can completely capture that
market If it goes about it in the
proper manner. The United States
ls the best customer Brazil has. It
takes more than one-half of her
greatest products, coffee and rubber,
and there 18 a very kindly reciprocal
feeling between the two countries. |
Send Traveling Men.
My own idea of the way to secure
the Brazilian trade {s for manufac
turers to send traveling men there—
men who know thelr business and
who, in addition, are cultivated gen
tlemen. They should be able to
speak Spanish or Portuguese—better
Portuguese, as that Is the pre
vailing language of the country. They
can easily obtain a working knowl
edge of the language in some good
school, or I can put them in touch
with some of the many young Brazil
jan students in Chicago.
Catalogues, price lists and other
commercial lterature should be in
Portuguese, and prices should be
given in pounds sterling or United
States currency. The price quota
tions should include cost, freight and
insurance to a port in Brazil. Welghts
should always be given in the metric
system.
Business There Not Hasty.
Salesmen should be provided with
liberal expense accounts and they
must remember that the Latin races
do business in a different manner
than we do. They do not decide so
quickly. Manufacturers here must
remember that Brazil {s an old-fash
toned country, and that it has been
buying goods from Europe since
1820. It has become accustomed to
these goods, and the people do not
change their ideas quickly.
Both the English and the Germans
have from time to time established
branch houses in Brazil, which have
done much to further their commer
cial ilnterests. I was with a house
which exported coffee from Braszil
and !mported dry goods, and that in.
terchange of business strengthened
the commercial relations between
England and Brazil
It is high time thig country had an
‘adeguate merchant marine, and it is
my belief that the trade opportuni
‘ty will result in our getting a fleet
of ships adequate to the trade de
mands.
' The value of Brazillan imports in
1912 was $308,248,738 and of its ex
ports $362,794,846. It sent to the
United States $141,014,885 worth of
‘exports and took back only $48108.-
316 in imports.
. The United States can supply near-
Iy everything Brazil needs. While
this war lasts it is certain Germany
‘and the United Kingdom can do no
business with Brasil
Revival of Cattle
Growing Is Predicted
PUERLO, Aug. 32 —Demand for thou
sands of head of cattle, which will be
reqpired to feed the troops in the far
flung European conflict, will revive
the cattle industry of the West, in the
opinion of local cattlemen.
Though the industry, which formerly
ranged next to mining In Imgflrttnte,
has deolined in recent years, the strain
which will be placed upon the meat pro
ducing districts of the world by the rec
ord prices which beef will command, it
is lhm:fiht, will give tha cattla business
a stimulus it has not known in a decade.
HOSTILITIES ABRUPTLY
CTOP ALL IMMIGRATION
Ellis Island Barges Which Used to Handle 7,000
Newcomers a Week Tied Up for Overhauling.
War Will Make Many ‘Undesirables’.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—With the disposition of the last batch
of immigrants .who sailed from Europe before the general war
broke out the great buildings at Ellis Island are now for the first
time untenanted except for the aliens who are held as undesir
ables. The four big double-decked barges which have been wont
to carry an average of 7,000 immigrants a week from the steamship
‘plers to the examination rooms are
tied up for overhauling, with the
prospect of their not being used for
a long time to come.
~ According to advices received by
the authorities from the Trans-A‘-
lantic Steamship Company officers,
less than a thousand aliens were ex
pected in this port during the week.
The Federal examiners believe that
this number will be the average for
a long time, angd that it will be years
before the old conditions return.
200 Wait Deportation.
At present there are about 200
aliens waiting to be deported, but
because of the cancellation of the
sailing of the steamships of the lines
which brought them over, they may
be held indefinitely. Commissioner
Byron G. Uhl has arranged every
comfort for those who, because of
physical or other disabilities, are not
permitted to take up their homes
here.
The statistics at Ellis Island show
that during the week of June 13 the
number of persons seeking admission
through the port of New - ory drop
ped from 14,000 to 9,000. This was
caused largely by Italian laborers re
turning to their home countries and
cireulating reports that the work here
for which they are particularly adapt
ed had slackened materially.
Several weeks ago there was a
further drop to 7,000 aliens a week,
and with the arrival of the last of the
steamships leaving foreign ports be
fore the Kaiser mobilized his troops
the inspectors see the end of any
perceptible immigration for the pros
ent,
May Come First Class.
The few immigrants now expected
will come first class, the inspectors
believe, as the lines in trans-Atlantic
service have informed the Federal of
ficials that every space is being taken
by American citizens who are anxious
to escape from the war zone.
Should the war last long, the ex
perts who are in charge of the local
station estimate that immigration
from Europe will decrease some i 0
per cent from the figures of the year
ending July, 1913, which showed a
total of 1,197,892,
The largest number of aliens ad
mitted during that period came from
the Russian Empire and Finland,
which furnished 291,040 persons;
265,642 came from Italy, Sardinia and
Sicily, and 244,726 from Austria and
Hungary. Only 34,320 Germans came,
Coal Trade of $62,295,000
May Turn to United States
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Eight
South American countries from which
stalistics are available bought 862 -
295,000 worth of coal in one vear. Of
this amount the United States sold
only $4,223 118 worth, while the sales
of Great Britain, including 'Australia,
amounted to $63,226,602. While all of
the South American countries buy
more or less coal, Argentina, Brazil
and Chile are by far the greatest con
sumers.
The Pan-American Union is in re
ceipt of inquiries from some of these
countries as to Information relative
to coal dealers in the United States,
while on the other hand letters are
coming in daily from the latter seek
ing ilnformation anent the opportu
nitles in South America for the sale
of their product.
Handicap Is Certain.
It is a foregone conclusion that
even if the great European war does
not entirely cut off the usual sources
of coal supply for South America, the
trade of the countries engaged in the
war will be seriously handicapped. In
the interest of the United States
dealers the following statistics are
given:” .
Taking the vear 1912 as a fair av
erage, the statistics show that Ar
gentina's coal imports were valued at
$25,955,692, of which $24,500,000 worth
Vast Markets Opened to
Electrical Supply Makers
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Declaring
that the general European war has
opened a world market, phenomenal
in its possibilities of expansion to
manufacturers of electrical appli
ances, The Electrical World and Elec
tric Railway Journal predict a dou
bling of exports during the coming
Year.
The Electri:al World says the best
markets for manufacturers of elec
trical appliarnges In this country have
always been’ those countries which
now are neutral. In every case the
strongest competitor has been Ger
many, where there has been a total
cessation of production. In Englang,
which will be open soon again to
commerce, it is believed, Germany
has long held sway. Commenting on
the posasibiiities which are now open
to manufacturers, The Electrical
World says in part.
“We have fared best in the neutral
markets of the world and with the
closure of the productive centers of
and about 88,200 British subjects.
J Seamen Unemployed.
The officials at Ellis Island are
somewhat concerned over the care of
seamen diechargeq from their ships
by the companies temporarily out of
business. Secretary of Labor Wilson
is expected to give orders for the dis
position of these men, numbering
about 8,000 aliens, now in Hoboken
and New York. Deportation and de
tention arrangements are now under
way In Boston, Philadelphia and Bal
timore.
The inspeetors at Ellis Island pomnt
out that with millions of men in the
field a great number will be disabled
by disease or wounds, which would
bar them from admission to th!s
country,
While thousands of men will be
rendered “undesirable,” the effect of
immigration on women and children
is expected to be enormous. In many
instances at present the young men
from the European countries, espa
cially from Russia, Austria, Hungary
and Italy, come here and later send
for their families. With thousands
killed on the battlefields their widows
must stay in their native countries
with their children.
Taxes To Be Heavy.
War taxes also are taken into con
sideration in the arrest of immigra
tion after peace has been declarsd.
it will be impossible, the experts be
lieve, for millions who may want Lo
come here to raise enough money 1o
carry them.
Auring the past year 100,000 Jews
were admitted into this country, ac
cording to I. Irving Lipsitch, the El
lis Island representative of the He
brew Sheitering and Immigrant Aid
Soclety, which cares for many of
the alieng of their faith,
“These people,” said Mr. Lipsitch,
“come from the countries now Al
rectly affected by the war, anqg it is
well known that many of them are
not in a position to have what little
money they have saved for a voyage
here taken from them by the heavy
war impositions. How long it will
take them to get ov:r the strain ot
the struggle in Europe can not be es
timated.
“We beileve that this week we will
see the ebb of immigration, and it
would be no surprise if fewer immi
grants entered this port during the
month than there have been since
Ellis Island was established.”
came from the United Kingdom;
§811,307 from the United States;
$205,160 from Germany; $118,307 from
Austria-Hungary; $83,318 from Bel
gium, and the rest from the Nether
lands and other countries.
Brazil's Imports.
During the same year Brazil's im
ports of coal amounted to $20,879,052,
of which $17,589,884 worth came from
the United Kingdom; $2,788,601 from
the United States, and $56,702 from
Belgium. Chile's importation was
valued at $11,163,583, of .which the
United Kingdom furnished $7,146,839
worth; Australia, $2,981,349; the
United States $502,787; Germany,
$278,3566; France, $97,037; Belgium,
$70,065; the Netherlands, Norway and
other countries the remainder. '
Among the South American coun
tries having less demand for coal may
be mentioned Uruguay, whose im
ports amounted to $2,647,17), no ac
curate statistics as to sources being
dvallable. Peru imported $1,098,509
worth, $786,214 of which came from
the United Kingdom; $159,081 from
Germany; $88,690 from Australia, and
$55,058 from the United States. Ven
ezuela, the closest neighbor to the
Gulf States and their immense coal
mines, imported 3112517 worth, $Bl,-
103 of which came from the United
Kingdom, $11,742 from Germany, and
§511,365 from the United States.
Burope the cessation of demand there
affects so small a percentage of the
$15,000,000 to $20,000,000 we are send
ing out that it might easily be for
gotten. Canada has been one of our
very best customers, and we still
have access to her markets. Japan
has been a very good customer.
“Mexico has been a very good cus
tomer and even at the present time is
taking much electrical material from
us. We have also exported heavily to
South America, the Cape (South
Africa), East Indies and China.
¢ * & There are latent possibilities
in Italy, whose connections with
South America are far more consid
efable than is generally understood
in this country, but Italy has never
been a great exporter of electrical
apparatus, and the whole world's
market outside of Europe, and even
in some of the European countries
not involved {n war, would appear ta
bo ours, if we are williug lo go afi
er it” B
'MARCH ARRIVALS!
'FROM WAR NATIONS |
% The following table shows thog
¢ number of immigrants entering ¢
the United States last March from ;
% each of the countrie snow at wnr's
{ or affected by the war: ¢
SO R
g WUNGRPY .. iveoaviares 1008 3
e ISR GINe -, B
7 AUBIEIN Brvvovnsssanytivs YLD (
{1 Grosce .11 L 0 6784 ¢
$ Groat Britain .Vi i 808 )
. QAN o cuih s AATD.
' Servia, Bulgaria and 3
t( Montenegro . ........... 812
3 Netherlands ............ 793
PPRNEN .. iciertaniirs NN
g Switzerland ............ 582
Tie-Up of Traffic
On Seas Express
Lines’Death Blow
Profitable Trans-Atlantic Trade Is
Btrangled and Companies Are
Not Able to Stand Strain
and Walit Peace.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The ex
press companies, laboring under the
competition of the parcel post, are
likely, so it said, to be forced into
consolidation or out of business alto
gether by the European war. Unless
it terminates much sboner than is
expected the companies stand to lose
much business through the diminu
tion of the volume of foreign goods,
of which they haul immense quanti
ties from wholesale to retail houses.
The express companies are in no
condition to stand the war drain. Fig
ures sent to the Government bureau
dealing with such matters show that
for last April their net income was
but a little more than 11 per cent of
what it was for April of 1913—548,747,
as against $437,826. And as the ex
pres® rates found to be “reasonable”
by the Interstate Commerce Com
misston did not go into effect until
February 1 last, the loss is attribut
able to the dnroads of the parcel post
service, which began operations on
January 1, 1913.
Loss 85 Per Cent.
During the ten months of the fiscal
yvear ending -with April, the eleven
largest American companies, two of
which operate in Canada as well as
the United States, had an aggregate
net incomegfrom operations, amount
ing to only $628,437, while duning the
ten months of the preceding fiscal
vear thelr incomes aggregated $4,-
231,464, The loss—more than 85 per
cent—wag exceeded In percdentage
during April, when it ran to more
than 89 per cent.
How much of the loss is due to
slackness of business not connected
with parcel post rates or orders of
the Interstate Commerce ‘Commis
sion it is impossible to more than
estimate, but even® the highest esti
mate could not attribute half the loss
to whatever hesitancy there may have
béey in business. So the parcel post
competition is directly responsible for
probably $2,000,000 reduction in the
income of the express companies.
i A Few May Live. .
Consolidation, it is believed, will
enable two or three express compa
nies to live. In nearly every large
city there are at least three complete
express organizations, and in a good
many of them there are more. On a
showing of finances such as the ex
press companie® could make for the
first year and a quarter of'the opera
tion of the parcel post system it is
congldered very doubtful, it is be
lieved, whether any court would con
strue such consolidation as in viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law,
The United States Ixpress Company,
recently taken over by one of its
rivals, had a deficit of $89,810 -for the
ten-month period from July 1, 1911,
to June 30, 1913, but during the ten
months, from July 1, 1913, to April
30, 1914, it ran behind $247,001. -
One of the incidents of its ahsorp
tion by one of its rivals was a lessen
ing of competition at certain points,
although at many there was none. If
the consolidation had not taken place,
there would have been the restraint
resulting from absolute elimination of
the United States Company’s organi
zation and sale of its equipment un
der orders of a court.
Losses in Ten Months.
The companies which incurred
losses durihg the ten-month period
for which the figures are complete
are the Canadian, the income of which
fell from $152,163 to $48,643; the Ca
nadian Northern, which fell from
$171,914 to $154,737; the Globe, which
fell from an income of $24,076 to def
fcit of $26,593; the Great Northern,
which fell from $208,137 to $146,347;
the Northern, which ran down from
$243.807 to $209,979; the Southern,
which declined from 351.046008 to
$735,086; the TUnited States, which
went from a deflcit of $89,810 to one
of $247,091; the Wells Fargo, from
$1,408,811 to $9005,966; the Western,
which fell from an income of $37,047
to a deficit of $39,965: the Adams,
from an income of §191,830 to a deficlt
of $636,687, and the American, which
ran down from an income of $337,424
to a deficit of $612,965.
The heavy losses of the companies
operating in the thickly settled parts
of the country are due wholly to the
unprofitableness of the short hauis.
Most of the expense of coriducting an
express business is the cost of pick
up and delivery. Those items of ex
pense are no greater for the long
than the short hauls, but the rates
are hased on distance of the haul be
twee{ terminals.
Unification of a number of the
companies would be possible in such
a way as to reduce the ocost of the
pick-up and delivery service. And
such unificaiton and consolidation in
the near future {s regarded as abso
lutely essential if elimination is to
be avoided.
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5. WOULD WELGUME
NEW EUROPEAN REPUBLIC
Quick Recognition for Any Such Developmenti
as a Result of the War Is Predicted by Ex
perts in State Department, Who Cite History.,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Any new republic which may,
spring from the ashes of the European conflagration will receive
almost instant recognition from this Government and its hearty
moral support.
This, in the belief of officials of the State Department, can be
accomplished without a departure from our traditional policy
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of non-interference in European af
fairs. It will be made more easy bY
the fact that in all probability our
diplomatic representatives will be
caring for the interests in other Cap
itals of whatever nations undergo a
change in the form of their govern
ment,
That either .the Hohenzollern or
Hapsburg dynasty, or both, may’ suf
fer very material changes in their
empires, if not a curtailment of their
absolutism, is the bellef in well in
formed circies here. The attitude of
the United States as al people, it is
believed now, is much the same to
ward the Teutonic alliance as it was
toward the French arms during the
Franco-Prussian war—the sympathy
of the people went out to the French
people, T 1t not to the Frénch ruler or
the arms. 4
Course To Be Followed.
When, in one day. the Bonaparte
dynasty was overthrown in Parls,
without taking the remainder of the
country, the army or anything else
into consideration, the State Depart
ment ordered the almost immediate
recognition of the new republican
government, a step which placed the
French commissioners on solid
ground in arranging peace terms with
Count von Bismarck.
This course will be followed by this
Government in any similar sitnation
resulting from the present war. This
attitude is thoroughly explained In a
telegram which the archives of the
State Department now hold from
Acting Secretary of State J. C. B.
Davis to Elihu B. Washburne, then
our Minister to France, It reads as
follows:
“Berthemy (French Minister to the
United States) asks, under instruc
tions from Favre (head of the new
government), whether the public
sentiment in America has changed
since the change of government in
France, adding, on his part, that until
now the republican press in this
country has expressed strong sym
pathy with Germany.
Dynasty in Disfavor.
“I reply that the Government main
tains a strict neutrality and will con
tinue to do so; that he can not won
der that the people have little sym
pathy for a dynasty which com
menced giving aid to rebels during
our war and tried to establish a
monarchy on our Southern borders;
that in my judgment the feeling to
which he alluded was not against
France or the French peopls, of which
he is as competent a judge as I, and
that the disposition of this Govern
ment is shown in the order of the
President already given to recognize
the new Government.”
The haste with which the State De
partment recognized the new Gov
ernment set up by the citizens of
Paris only is shown by three brief
telegrams from Davis to Washburne
all on the same day, September 6,
1870, one day after the bloodless rev
olution. The first one reads.
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“T¢ provigional government has ac
tual control and possession of power
and is acknowledged by the French
people 80 as to be, in point of fact, de
facto government, of which you will
be able to decide by the time thig
reaches you, you will not hesitate to
recognize it.”
Supposedly, a few minutes Ilater,
Davis sent this wire:
“It appearing by your last dispatch
that new government is fully in
stalled and Paris remains ' tranquil,
you will recognize.”
And immediately after:
~ “As soon as the situation on youp
‘judgment shall Jjustify, tender the
‘congratu]ations of President and
people of United States on the suce
cessful establishment of a republican
government.”
We welcomed a republic in place of
& monarchy. Germany is accused of
concentrating against our trade and
commerce, pArticularly with a view to
monopolizing the Latin-American
trade. Germany is regarded as the
most constant menace to the Monroe
Doctrine. We wouid be glad to see
the autocratic powers of the Kaiser
and Emperor Francis Joseph—for the
two are inseparably allied on all in
ternational questions—curtailed, and
against these powers the threat of
more republican governments in Eu
rope.
Interesting Correspondence.
This correspondence of the State
Department during the war period
contains the best historic and eco
nomic thought of recent vears—let
ters from John Lothrop Motley, our
Minister to Great Britaln, and George
Bancroft, the historian, who repre
sented us at Berlin. Mr. Bancroft's
letter to Secretary of State Hamlilton
Fish informing the latter of the decla
ration of war i{s extremely interesting
at this time, as the positions of France
and Germany seem to be absolutely
reversed from our point of view. The
letter, in part, follows: .
“Sir—War was yesterday declared
against Prussia. The King did every
thing to avoid It that he could. It is
evident that there was a wavering in
the French Cabinet, and the resu\: is
an evidence of a frivolity in the deci
sion of a momentous question that
scarcely has a parallel in history. At
the present time nothing has occurred
which furnishes any excuse whatever
for the resort to arms, and the solu
tion is to be found partly in the great
difficulties which arise and increase in
the interior administration of France
and partly in the passions which have
rankled since 1866 and which can no
longer be restrained.
“s 8 ¢ BEvery day that war was
delayed consolidated the power and
the union of Germany. The land was
making progress in industry, wealth
and petriotic freedom. France was
not intrinsically, but relatively, de
clining in political influence. It has
chosen suddenly to take the risk of &
Adesperate measure.”