CHAPTER V

FOREIGN TRADE AND MILITARY POWER

Why trade cannot be destroyed or captured by a military Power--What the processes of trade really are, and how a navy affects them--_Dreadnoughts_ and business--While _Dreadnoughts_ protect British trade from hypothetical German warships, the real German merchant is carrying it off, or the Swiss or the Belgian--The "commercial aggression" of Switzerland--What lies at the bottom of the futility of military conquest--Government brigandage becomes as profitless as private brigandage--The real basis of commercial honesty on the part of Government 68-87