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attention to business, these juniors are often able to become 

 partners, even one of the heads of the firm that they went 

 out for, or of a firm that they have started for themselves. 

 Such men, later on, can go home, open a house in Ham- 

 burg, and settling down there, only make an occasional 

 trip abroad. Thus the process of development goes on 

 with the patriotic and pushful Germans. Have we not a 

 sufficient number of patriotic and pushful British-born sub- 

 jects to do likewise, and on the same scale for our Empire ? 



The same thing applies to the agricultural part of Latin 

 America, where large numbers of coffee and sugar estates 

 are owned by the Germans. To increase British trade 

 you need initiative of this character. It will do little good 

 to send out travellers, catalogues, samples, appoint agents, 

 and spend large sums on propaganda in countries where 

 such a condition of affairs as I have indicated prevails. 

 What we need are men to manage banks — our banks, to 

 start business houses — our business houses, and to form 

 cacao, coff^ee, and other estates on all sides, owned and 

 financed by British individuals and banking concerns. 



It would be worth while for some of our Manchester, 

 Birmingham, and London exporting firms, or of those 

 trade-associations that we hope to see formed, to open up 

 branches in the principal towns of Latin America. We 

 would suggest that the Board of Trade, Chambers of 

 Commerce, and public-spirited men should take the matter 

 up, so that by propaganda the young fellows at home shall 

 become interested in the work and grow more reconciled 

 to the idea of going abroad, especially when by doing so 

 they realize what a lot of good they can do both for them- 

 selves as the young Germans have done, and also for 

 their country as well. 



As we said in February (191 6) strenuous times are ahead 

 of us, and the nation who goes even a shade slacker than 

 the pacemaker will get ridden down. In September, 1914 

 {see p. 61), our Editor, discussing " The Trade War 

 with Germany," urged that, in order to obtain the millions 

 to spend on the art of war, someone, and many a one, has 

 to make them in the arts of peace, and that takes us back 

 to the question of the trade war that will follow when the 

 clash of arms is silent in Europe. The trade war will also 

 need its soldiers, eager, ambitious men, determined to 

 win, and the first thing to be done is to arrange to finance 

 these trade warriors later on. 



Negroes, like children, or rather because they are 

 nothing else but big children, often bring the truth home 



