Excerpt from The European War and Our Opportunity in Foreign Trade
Despite the broad views and the keen appreciation of our needs on the part of some of our great manufacturers, mer chants, bankers and railway men, and the efforts of organiza tions such as the Illinois Manufacturers Association, and the Chicago Association of Commerce, however, the mass of our people and the majority of their representatives in Washington, have believed that we in this country were very little concerned with world commerce and the questions of international politics arising therefrom. The producers of our great staples grain and cotton - realized perhaps that their goods were destined eventually to go abroad, but their experience was confined to their relations with middlemen and bankers who purchased and financed their crops for delivery at, and ship ment from, the seaboard.
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