For years past Germany has been steadily and vigorously pushing her
trade into all quarters of the Russian Empire, and now sells us above
L60,000,000 worth of products yearly. The ground has been broken by
Germany, and these enormous markets for machinery, chemicals, and all
sorts of manufactured products are now suddenly cut off from the avenues
through which they have been supplied. Herein lies the greatest
commercial opportunity for England and America that has ever been
offered.
It has been said in the Maxims of Pascal that to govern is to foresee.
This is not only true of politics and affairs of government, but applies
as well to trade relations. It is that country which foresees the
situation commercially in Russia that will reap the enormous benefits
that these markets now offer.
It is not merely sufficient that merchants and manufacturers should
offer their goods here. They that would profit permanently by the new
trade conditions of this empire must take up the task seriously. Experts
should be sent here now, even while the war is still in progress, to
study and examine the wants of our country. Our duties, our manner of
doing business, our present and future wants and growing demands, should
be studied scientifically and fundamentally, so that when peace comes
those channels which have for decades flowed deeply with German products
may continue to flow with products from America and England.
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