Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-10

BRITAIN TALKS
 RAIFF AFTER WAR
Defensive Policy, Aimed To Keep American Products
 Out of Isles.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

1 LONDON, Correspondence of The
 Associated Press)-London newspap- CTS are giving increasing attention to
 the subject of trade with America af-
 ter the war. The Globe declares that
 while England does not seek trade
 war" with any neutral, American goods which enter into competition
 with those produced in Great Britain must not be allowed to come in with
 out paying tax or toll. The article
 says:
 One of the situations that call for consideration after the war is that of
 trade relationships with neutral coun-
 tries, especially neutrals who have been doing well out of the war, and
 are thereby enabled to prepare for in creased trade when the war is over
 Such countries have been subject to little or no risk, and their commercial
 and industrial prosperity has been, and continues to be, materially en- hanced by the necessities of the bel i ligerents. The most important neutral in this respect is the United States.
 America is profiting remarkably through supplying ourselves and our
 allies with munitions and foodstuffs,
 and partly by sending to neutral coun- l tries goods which the combatant DOW
 CTS at present are unable tC supply them. Being free from all serious | competition, her manufacturers are
 making enormous profits, which they
 are employing in laying dowr new 1 plants and erecting new workshops.
 America will thus be in better posi- i tion to compete in the worlds mar
 kets at the close of the war than she
 has ever been before.
 Tn order to be able to deal success l fully with American competition we
 must develop to the full extent the re-
 sources of the British Empire. All l the needs of the Empire can be sup
 piled from within its own Lorders,
 with abundance to spare for the re- duirements of other nations. But this
 requires imperial organization and a ] closer partnership between the Moth CT Country and the Dominions. One of the principal instruments to accom- plish this is imperial preference, the admission of the products of the Elm pire into the Mother Country on bot
 ter terms than the products of foreign
 countries. The Dominions already ! give a preference in their markets to 1 this country and to one another. It only remains for us to reclprocate that preference, and in order to cope with American competition we must
 also have greatly extended tariff.
 American goods which enter into competition with our own productions i must no longer be allowed tn enter
 our markets without paying tax or 1 toll. We must treat American goods | in the same way as America treats
 English goods. Such a policy will not decrease the volume of our trade with ] d..
 direct it into more profitable channels
 It will give us a negotiating power
 such as we do not at present possess.
 This will enable us to obtain better
 terms of entry into the American
 market. Further. it will enable us to encourage the importation of such goods as we require which dO not compete with our own, and to discour- age the importation of goods which can be made equally well in our own country by British labor.
 'The policy indicated with regard to our dealings with neutrals is pure ly defensive. We do not seek trade war with any neutral. Our object is to free our markets and those of our allies from German domination, so that we may trade under fair terms Of competition. We do not propose any thing in the nature of tariff union directed against neutral countries. It is not our policy to exclude leutrals from our markets, but to attract them to it, in order that We may pay for the goods we purchase from them by goods made in this country.
 But it is also our policy to obtain more favorable terms of entry for our goods into neutral countries. and we can only obtain this by tariff nego- tiation The war has taught us the necessity of coming into line with other civilized nations in order to pro- tect our home industries and to raise additional revenue. No neutral coun- try. least of all the United States. can object to our adopting an economic system which they have proved to be advantageous. nor can they imagine that such a policy be dictated by mot ives antagonistic to their own trade and prosperity"