Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-11
AUSTRALIA TO
CUT UNCLE SAM.
Its People Urged to Buy Canadian and
British Goods Only-Chinese
Boycott Is Help.

WASHINGTON, u. c., May o
Consular reports indicate that Australia
is evidently discriminating against the
United States in trade relations. Re
! cent shipping orders seem to confirm this
opinion. Canada gets the preference
next to Great Britain.
Governor OF Victoria Speaks.
The following remarks of Sir Reginald
| Talbot, the governor of the state of Vic
toria, may be of interest as showing his
objection to Australians purchasing
American goods in preference TO those of
British make:
l hold it to be the very best form OF trade
preference for those who live in a country
to support the interests of that country by
purchasing the goods produced therein, ana
| by destroying the silly prejudice that con
| tends that because thing is grown or
made under our noses it is not so good as
something that came from a long way of.
Mother Country Second.
Whilst l wish preference for Victorian or
Australian goods to be the first cOnsidera-
ton, would like Australians afterwards to
give the mother country's goods the prefer
,ence over the goods of other nations. l
| have noticed on countless occasions that
goods which could be produced here, and
were produced In England, have been
! passed over and set aside by people, who
bought instead, American or German
but because the Americans and Germans
were more pushing i'll getting their goods
sold.
Anyone in this state. l think, should say
Il will not buy anything that is not Aus
! tralian, providing what is Australian is
cheap enough and good enough and when
| that were made In America or Germany,
they should ask before buying, Haven't
you the same article from England?' If
everyone would do that they would estab-
oh cd ;nI 10 ftp1n
ton or any pressure from without l hope
to see the day when all will live that
principle; 1t would strengthen the bond Of
union with England, and would enable
Englishmen to show the world at large i
united Empire.
| Profit from Chinese Boycott.
One of the largest exporters of flour in
Australia in giving evidence before the
Australian Shipping commission made
| the following statement of interest in re-
| gard to the Australian trade with the
east:
Since last July my firm has exported 90
! 900 bags of flour to the east, and we could
| have sent more had better shipping facili-
ties been available. The Chinese boycott
| on American flour has contributed to the
success of Australian trade In the east.
Chile and Uncle Sam.
! Minister Hicks writes from Santiago
| that in order to secure better steamship
COHu6cllOH Will Tie u ulIeu States IneEe
| has been inserted in the Chilean budget
for the current year an item of $4,000
| pesos (S95,O0O) for the subyention of q
! line of fast steamers between Valparaiso
| and Panama. The line will make BIZ
monthly trips, and steamers will make
| only one or two stops between Chile and
! the isthmus. Chile is already paying a
! large annual subsidy to the South Ameri-
| can Steamship company (Chilean) and
| the Pacific Steam Navigation company
| (British), and this new step indicates an
! earnest desire to secure better communi-
cation with the United States. Mr..
| Hicks continues:
Americans should realize the urgent ne.
cessity of improving the steamship service
| between the United States and the west
| coast of South America. 1t seems unfor-
! tunate that almost the entire trade of this
! and that American products should be
| largely crowded out by those of Italy, Ger
/ many, France and Great Britain Chile is
! rich and prosperous country and its con-
| sumption of goods manufactured abroad il
enormous, yet the trade is almost entirely
/ in the hands of the Europeans.
Gives Effective Example.
AS an example, plans and specifications
! for a new building for the chamber of com
| merCe at Valparaiso have been accepted
! from an architect in Rome Then an en-
! gineer from Holland is making q survey OF
the harbor of Valparaiso, where the Chilean
! government expects to spend some $4,000
! 900 in building docks and improving the
/ anchorage ground. American contractors
failed to secure the contract for building
! the Arica-La PaZ railroad, u piece of work
| to cost $10OOOOOO, which goes to a Chilean
syndicate, backed by Germans or English
| men.