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1 THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929 PAGE NINETEEN Empire Buyers are Empire Builders is This Week's Sloga or = Self-Preservation Demands That We Buy Less From U.S. And More From Empire Sources Borrow a Principle Enunciated by Abraham Lincoln That Money Spent on Goods From Foreign Countries Remains at Home; In United States. "It 'is 'an old axiom that "Charity begins at home." Circumstances are such that it might not be out of place to paraphrase the old saw and declare that "Trade begins at home." The order of buying during this campaign is: (1) goods produced in Oshawa; (2) goods produced in Canada; (3) goods produced in the Motherland and other parts of the British Empire. By buying gooe: made in Oshawa we keep money in the community which would otherwise go to the en- richment of another city. That is to say it helps the manufacturer, his workman and the retailer who sells the article. The manufacturer and the retailer get their reasonable mar- gin of profit, and the worker gets his wages, Each spends that money again in the city and so it keeps in circulation instead of going away, never to return. Think of that in wider terms. Buy Canadian merchandise, and the mo- ney stays in Canada and thereby adds to the cumulative wealth of the citi- zens of this Dominion. Buy Empire goods and the money helps some other members of the widely scat- tered British family, who in turn, are also doing the same thing for the benefit of themselves and of Canada. In consider:as this matter of trade, it is impossible to avoid tres- passing just a little on questions of politics, because trade and politics are intimately related, And it im- pinges particularly on the question of the tariff. Thorny subject, the tariff, but it ought not to be consid- ered in a party spirit. Abraham Lincoln, a simple minded, but a very wise man, once said some- thing to the following effect: "I do not know much about this tariff question, but I do know this--that when you spend money on goods from abroad we export the money spent upon. them. And when you buy goods that are made in our country we still have both the goods and the money." It is in that spirit that the trade position of Canada should be con- sidered, Where We Buy The total of Canada's tirade for 1928 reached the tremendous figure of $2,596,000,000, as compared to $2,326,000,000 for 1927, an increase of $270,000,000. With a population that ranks 28th among the countries of the world Canada is fifth in total exports and third in total turnover of trade. This huge volume of foreign trade is due mainly to three reasons: 1, the rich natural resources of the country; 2, the great purchasing pow- er of the population; 3. the great efforts it is making to increase the external trade of the Dominion. The United States is the largest supplier of commodities to Canada, total imports from that country dur- ing 1928 amounting to $826,000,000, is Mi Exported and Money Spent on Home Products Rey Canada's Enormous Spending an increase from 1927 of $119,000,000 when it was $707,000,000. On the other hand exports to the United States from Canada for 1928 amounted to $493,000,000 compared to $475,000,000 in 1927, an increase of only $18,000,000. The deficit as it were, or perhaps it is more correct to call it the balance of trade against us in our dealings with the United States last year amounted to the vast sum of $333,000,000 compared to $232,000,000 in 1927. Among a great many Canadians this situation is causing concern, for limiting our ability to increase and catch up 'with our exports to the United States we find a strong curb in the form of an increasing tariff barrier and it is advocated that more effort be made to purchase our re- quirements from those countries which are taking the larger share of Canada's exports, When our mma» follow this very logical line of reasoning we find that the British Empire is our best cus- tomer. In 1928 Canada's exports to the British Empire were $545,000,000 in comparison with $500,000,000 in 1927, an increase of $45,000,000, and imports into Canada from the rest of the British Empire were $254,000,000 for 1928 compared to $240,000,000 for 1927, an increase of $14,000,000, leav- ing a balance of trade in our favor of $291,000,000 in 1928 and $260,000, 000 in 1927. There are many good reasons for the condition as we find it, but none that this condition should be allowed to continue and as the trend shows, become more adverse each year, A Business Question Without considering the matter from the point of view that Canada is a partner in this great organiza- tion of the British Empire as was so practically evidenced in the war, it is quite sufficient to study it from the angle of the treatment one would accord one's best customer in busi- ness. This places us on a very fam- iliar and sound ground, for we all know that any reciprocation we can make in business in dealing with those that deal with us is given every consideration. Tariffs canno', oe kept out of Par- liament, and accordingly it is impos- sible to keep the subject out of party polities, but it would be a splendid thing if every member regarded it from the business point of view 'and not the party view, whether they are in favor of high tariffs or low tariffs. It is the business aspect that is to the fore this coming week, and it cannot be denied that from the busi- ness point of view it is wise policy to buy, (1), goods made in Oshawa; (2), goods made in Canada; (3), goods made in the British Empire. U.S. magazines and newspapers flooding the country, U.S. radio pro- grams which wouldn't be given at all but for the advertising of U.S. pro- ducts behind them, are creating an , LTD. 25 to JUNE1 The Store of Better Values Empire Buyers are Empire Builders Buy Canadian Made Products and Build up the Empire. All Shoes bought and sold at R. Neill Ltd., are Canada Made Goods. We have a big variety to choose from at prices to satisfy everyone. For Women enormous market for U.S. goods in Canada--nearly a billion dollars' worth a year, or will soon be at the present rate of increase. The Yan- kees are putting up higher barriers against our goods, except against the raw materials which they are only too glad to get from Canada and the instinet of self-preservation demands that we reduce the adverse balance. The British Empire has the goods. Demand British goods. The Mother- land is spending $5,000,000 of its own money for no other purpose but advertising Empire products. That means goods made in Canada, and field and dairy products produced in Canada, and we ought to reciprocate such a generous policy. See what the city of Glasgow did the other week. It had a "Canada week" in its stores. Merchants fea- tured Canadian products in the win- dows and boosted Canadian goods in every possible way. That is the spirit over there. Let's have it here. The home merchants are to feature Oshawa, Canadian and British goods all next week. When you do your shopping, ask if you can have a Bri- tish product. And if we can have this spirit for one week, why not try and continue that policy all the year round? It will be a tremendous benefit to Can- ada and every part of the British Empire. Buyers and Seliers To Meet in Canada (Toronto Globe) There is a world of significance in the cabled statement that a party of British manufacturers and their sales managers are coming over in August to investigate the Canadian market for British goods. Lack of personal contact with the Canadian buyer and consideration of his special require- ments has been the weak link in the great chain of intra-Empire trading. The time is opportune for such a visit by manufacturers, There is now in this country a growing conviction that it is the natural thing for peo- ple of the British stock to do busi ness with each other. The delega- tion will find the people of this Do- minion in an inquiring frame of mind regarding British-made goods, and there shaquld be much resultant bene- fit from discussion between buyer and seller, producers. But this week is Empire Shopping Week in Canada, and a reminder of certain opportunities. The statesmen of the Dominion will be sadly remiss in their duty if they are not giving serious thought to ways and means of transferring our purchases to those who show a desire to purchase from us. Canada each year imports from the United States $900,000,000 worth of goods--roughly twice as much as goes the other way. Many of the classes of goods imported are of a kind which either cannot be pro- duced at all or cannot be produced economically in Canada. Among these are such commodities as hard coal and tropical fruits. Empire produc- ers compete with United States pro- ducers in many of these lines. It is only common sense that we should buy all we can from those who buy from us. For instance, the item of hard coal, or anthracite: Central Canada must import huge quantities of this yearly. Pennsylvania has always been the chief source of supply. But during the acute shortage some years ago there was an insistent outcry in the Urges Buying More Goods From Britain (Toronto Globe) The Hon. Lucien Cannon, in his Windsor speech, has again reminded the United States that tariff revisions may cut both ways. The tariff bill with which Congress is now wrest- ling may injure the business of num- erous Canadian exporters. But, while several spokesmen of the King Gov- ernment have made clear that such action will not cause boomerang re- taliation on Canada's part, it should be equally apparent that Canada is in a position to transfer a large vol- ume of her necessary external pur- chases to the competitors of the United States. No sane Canadian will yield to the mad impulse to strike back blindly and suggest that Canada herself should penalize Canadian' consumers because the United States has: al- ready chosen to penalize Canadian] United States for an embargo on | coal exports to Canada, While that situation was short-lived, it was long enough to turn the thoughts of Cana- dians to Wales, Imports of Welsh anthracite have grown steadily ever since. With the completion of the St. Lawrence shipway it is 'probable that, in any event, Welsh coal will completely oust the American pro- duct from the Canadian market. But until that time British coal is under some handicap as to shipping charges. Last winter the Canadian people gave over $133,000 to help keep the unemployed Welsh miners from star- vation. If Canada could transfer her necessary cxternal hard coal pur- chases to Britain every miner in Wales could permanently be put to work, It goes without saying that any legislative arrangements that may be desirable following the action of Con- gress should safeguard, in the first place, the interests of the Canadian consumers. But the results of the West Indies treaty show that it is possible to help Empire producers without penalizing Canadian consum- ers; and that many other factors than tariffs can be used to transfer = ans © rt purchases from one country to other. EMPIRE WEEK (St. Catharines Standard) - Today, Empire Week is formally launched throughout Canada. & idea is to foster the purchase in this Dominion of Empire-made gopds. this respect, it might be said thal Canada sells more to the Empire than she buys. Were it not for the Empire purchases made in Canadd this country would not have a fave orable trade balance at all. 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