Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1919 — GERMANS SHOW FAST COMEBACK IN COMMERCE. [ARTICLE]

GERMANS SHOW FAST COMEBACK IN COMMERCE.

* -2v?«-«a the high price® -be; now, there can be no doubt that in a few years they will drop to a much lower level. Everyone who, has visited Germany is surprised and astonished by the marvelous business organization which so quickly has followed the war. “’ The German laborer 'is working' ten and twelve hours a day and is thereby making a wonderful increase in production.. It is said that the .German coal miners are working ten hours a day and are wijling to work on Sunday. All visiting business men agree that Germany has a great commercial future and that within less than five years she will be one of the great trade rivals of the nations of the world. What does this mean to America? It certainly means that the American manufacturer must reduce his cost of production. It will take a good republican pro.tective tariff to keep cheaply produced Gentian goods out of this country and it will take wise business men andreal '<drth into their labor if America liable tote a factor in the markets of the world. Germany lost the war for military supremacy. She should not be allowed to win the battle for commercial supremacy. s