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in Germany, or that their quality by reason of efficiency of process or 

 manufacture could not be rivalled in cheapness outside of Germany. 

 It is stated in publications on the subject that the German products 

 exclusively manufactured by them from coal tar and kindred sources 

 number upwards of thirteen hundred. The manufacturing premises 

 of that great firm of the Badische Anilin u. Soda Fabrik occupies alone a 

 mile and a half of the bank of the Rhine, while a great many other parent 

 sources have been exploited by them also, resulting in hundreds of pro- 

 ducts. In relation to this subject the amateur character of the infor- 

 mation which I possess compels me to leave further details to those 

 more intimately and practically acquainted with such matters. The 

 whole of this great German trade has been by the occurrences of the 

 past fifteen months thrown open to all the countries in the world. De- 

 prived of it, Germany's great sources of wealth are suspended. It must 

 be remembered that the scientific institutions, the laboratories, the 

 manufactories, and the commercial equipment of Germany will not be 

 destroyed, and it depends upon the means taken by the rest of the 

 world to meet a resumption of German aggressive commercialism to 

 see whether the suspension of her special trade will be converted into 

 its permanent loss. Before the time arrives for Germany's attempts 

 at commercial recovery, the other countries of the world must take care 

 to establish and prepare to maintain the production of those articles, 

 commodities and things which form the exclusive trade of Germany. 

 They must be ready to withstand the aggressive power which German 

 manufacturers and German science and efficiency will be able to exercise 

 by flooding their markets with these products with which local manu- 

 facturers may find it impossible to compete, unless steps have been 

 taken to meet such an emergency. Mere protective duties will not 

 suffice for this purpose. There must be real live business energy in the 

 commercial manufacturing world directed to the preservation of its 

 interests. The people of the British Empire must understand that there 

 will be this great commercial war to carry on with Germany, that it 

 will call for all the resources, all the intelligence, all the learning, and 

 all the assistance that can be derived by these means from scientific 

 and industrial research and personal enterprise on the part of its people 

 to wage the combat. It will be an Empire war. Great Britain itself is 

 not equal to the emergency; she must have the assistance of all her 

 dominions and dependencies. Canada must step in. Here we have 

 the resources in nature, in men, in learning and opportunity to take a 

 large and important part among the forces required for the contest. 

 England has already taken steps forward in the matter, which you will 

 no doubt hear of from some of the speakers here to-night. While we 



