By taking away from Germany at a stroke her mercantile marine, about 60,000 sailors have been thrown on the streets and their skill made useless.

Germany, therefore, impoverished in her agricultural territory, deprived of a good part of her raw materials, with a population weakened in its productive qualities, has lost a good part of her productive capacity because all her organization abroad has been broken, and everything which served as a means of exchange of products, such as her mercantile fleet, has been destroyed.

France and Italy have preserved their colonies (Italy's do not amount to much), their mercantile fleets (which have much increased), their foreign organization.

France and Italy, being countries of good faith, have demonstrated that, if they cannot pay, it is absurd to demand the payment of much higher sums from countries like Germany, which has lost almost all her best resources: mercantile fleet, colonies and foreign organization, etc.

Apart from her colonies, Germany has given up all her mercantile marine fleet, her submarine cables, much railway material and war material, government property in ceded territory without any diminution of the amount of public debts, etc.

There are different divisions of human activity, and it is quite natural that those individuals whose temperament calls them to a certain activityliterary or religious or mercantile or military or what notshould range themselves together in a caste or class; just as the different functions of the human body range themselves in definite organs.

She will fight for her rightful position in the world; she will challenge England's mercantile supremacy.

Riches beyond all expectation flowed in; and a mercantile class arose in her midst whose ideals of life were of a corresponding characterthe ideals of the wealthy shopkeeper.

Although essentially a mercantile and seafaring people, the Carthaginians by no means neglected agriculture.

When once this tariff of blood was correctly made out, Carthage began a war as a mercantile speculation.

The original letters spoke for themselves, and the copies had been made in a clear, strong, mercantile hand, and with the method of one accustomed to business.

Nothing was talked of among the mercantile or adventurous part of mankind, but the beauty and riches of the new world.

As an instance of the Emperor's straining a point to keep solvent one of his mercantile firms, on the occasion of the visit of the merchants to Morocco, his Imperial Highness lent the house of Hasan Joseph (Jews) 10,000 dollars in hard cash, which, to my knowledge, were paid to them out of the coffers of the Mogador custom-house.

But the Emperor's genius is mercantile, and he is determined to support his Imperial traders; and his conduct, after all, is only the calculation of a raiser.

It was reported in the mercantile circles, that representations would be made to the Emperor to place the trade of the country upon a regular, and more stable footing.

Early in 1917, when our mercantile losses were very heavy, some submarines were withdrawn from the Harwich and Humber districts and formed into a flotilla off the coast of Ireland for this form of operation.

(2) The establishment of schools of instruction for captains and officers of the Mercantile Marine.

Its success was so marked, and its benefit in assisting officers to handle their ships in the manner best calculated to save them from submarine attack so great, that the Admiralty was continually being pressed by shipowners and by the officers of the Mercantile Marine to extend the instruction to more and more ports.

(3) The provision of wireless plant and operators to the Mercantile Marine.

The experience gained showed, however, that the difficulties apprehended by the officers of the Mercantile Marine were not insuperable, and that, given adequate protection by cruisers and small fast craft, the system was at least practicable.

Steps were also taken to appoint officers at British ports for the work of controlling the mercantile traffic, and as the organization became perfected so the conditions gradually improved.

Under the new conditions the Admiralty took upon itself responsibility for the control of the ships of the Mercantile Marine in addition to its control of the movements of the Fleet.

It is well known by what trifles in the mercantile world fortunes are lost and won.

His old inclination had changed its name; it was 'mercantile speculation;' but the substance remained the same.

Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company (E of the Estate of Henry L. Mencken); 17Jun75; R619009. R619010. Names for Americans.