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TO PUT GERMANY OUT OF BUSINESS Announcement of Economic Blockade Received with Painful Attention in Hunland No declaration since the one that put the United States into the war has been read with such painful attention in Germaiiy remarks the Philadelphia Xortu American as the recent statement of the theBritish British minister of blockade that the twentyfour twentyfourf f tr tf allied nations twentyfive now with Honduras fprjii virtually an economic as well asia military combination Rejtorts from neutral capitals long ago revealed thu fact that the problem of resurrecting her for ¬ eign trade is one of the biggest worries gnawing at the hearts of Germanys leaders For four years as cue editor notes behind every vision of victory that lias dazzled the German mind there has been visible the perturbing shadow of a coming economic Ktmgglu as pitiless as war itself And the Spring ¬ field Republican remarks that while officially there is yet in existence no actual economic league of the nations associated in the war against the Central Powejs Lord Robert Cecil was within the Imunds of truth in calling the attention of the mas ¬ ters of Germany as he did to the potentiality of the economic antagonism of the nations after the war to German trade and industry As this in ¬ fluential New England paper goes on to say sayThe The possession of new territory cities and in ¬ land seas like the Illack and the Baltic will not in ¬ sure to Germany the quick economic rehabilitation when pence comes that her leaders so keenly desire ind count upon Germany must soon have unimped ¬ ed actess to the raw materials of the worlds market to Americas cotton and copper and to the rubber and wool and leather of the British empire in order to restore her industries to a flourishing basis The control of such raw materials by the present foes of Germany especially by the British and the Ameri ¬ cans cannot be shaken by German military victories in Europe stud in this fact lies a tremendous asset of the associated nations Here is something to bargain with if the coming peace is to be a bar ¬ gaincounter affair with Belgium held as a pawn by the kaiser and a third of European Russia held as a conquest for Teutonic traders and peddlers
