672  Address  of  Francis  P.  Garvan  {Amo™!imaTm' 
years  of  neglect,  only  intensified  as  it  must  be  by  your  conscious- 
ness of  the  results  of  that  neglect.  You  have  listened  without  ap- 
parent protest  contenting  yourselves  with  resolutions  and  telegrams 
to  swell  the  waste  paper  baskets  of  Congress,  to  the  German  lie  that 
there  was  a  'Dye  Monopoly'  in  this  country,  or  that  such  a  mo- 
nopoly would  result  from  the  enactment  of  a  selective  embargo, 
when  you  knew  that  the  development  of  a  dye  industry  is  synony- 
mous with  the  development  of  education  in  organic  chemistry  and 
that  no  monopoly  in  education  is  possible  without  the  compulsory 
partnership  of  industry,  university  and  government,  such  as  exists 
in  Germany.  (A  monopoly  which  never  worries  those  tools  of 
German  propaganda.) 
"Did  it  not  bring  in  your  minds  the  lessons  of  the  war  when 
you  saw  the  importing  representative  of  the  German  'I.  G.'  stand  on 
the  floor  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  flanked  by  fifteen  of  the 
seventeen  Congressmen  who  .voted  against  the  declaration  of  war, 
leading  the  cheering  when  the  first  great  unsuccessful  test  came  as 
to  whether  American  chemists  should  be  given  a  chance  to  catch  up 
their  neglect  of  forty  years  and  atone  for  it  by  leading  this  country 
through  the  development  of  organic  chemistry  into  the  realms  of 
intensified  national  industrial  progress,  secret  security  to  home 
and  child  and  blessed  advance  in  the  medical  service  of  humanity? 
Do  you  not  feel  that  the  voices  of  two  German  importing  firms  were 
louder  in  protest  and  more  persistent  in  their  appeal  for  Germany 
than  the  voices  of  your  fifteen  thousand  members  for  America's 
lessons  of  the  war? 
.  "Again  I  repeat,  Herman  A.  Metz  stood  upon  the  floor  of  the 
House  as  that  vote  was  announced  and  shouted  to  a  gallery  of 
American  citizens,  'I've  got  you  licked.'  And  when  he  screamed  in 
triumph,  he  meant  'I,  the  representative  of  the  Interessen  Gemein- 
schaft,  the  'I.  G.,'  the  combination  of  German  government  and 
German  chemical  industries ;  I've  licked  the  advice  of  your  General 
Pershing;  I've  licked  the  advice  of  your  Secretary  of  War;  I've 
licked  the  advice  of  your  Secretary  of  Navy;  I've  licked  your 
President ;  I've  licked  your  Administration ;  I've  licked  your  thirty 
million  dollar  investment  in  your  colleges ;  I've  licked  your  chemis- 
try in  your  high  schools  and  your  public  schools;  I've  licked  your 
research  institutions  and  the  future  development  of  medicine  in 
America.'  " 
