Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1917 — United States Must Look Chiefly to South America for Trade After War [ARTICLE]

United States Must Look Chiefly to South America for Trade After War

By JOHN BARRETT

Director of Pan-American Union

While the nations of Europe are prosecuting the greatest war of history with an efficiency and determination almost beyond human conception, they are at the same time preparing for the even greater industrial war which they know will come at the conclusion of peace. They propose to recoup their losses by regaining the trade that has been lost, but to extend it into new and hitherto unexploited fields. They will; devote the same thoroughness to their new task as they have to prosecuting the war. Americans need not look to Europe as an outlet for their products. South America will be practically the only field that id left open to us, and it behbbyes Mto prepare oumdveaft>r now.- Respite the handicaps of lack of a credit system and transportation, the United States before the war did $200,000,000 more business .with Latin America than its next nearest competitor.