The Washington times., 1930-09-12
NATIONAL ISM
R'E|B.|RTH
Seen
Energetic Drive on to Induce
Canadians to shun Y. $.
Goods; 10 Boost Tariff
~ GEORGE n. HOLMES
Internatienai News ssfyice
(Copyrlght. 1889. by InternationaI

s. (Copyraght. 1883. bys International
News servica1
OTTAWA. Ont, sept H. Can
ada liatio1aliSEn. born during the
war and permitted to languish
during the last few years Of "easy
times, = has experienced q rebirth
Siifce the Bennett conservative
K0vGfnment was voted into power
q a1morath ago.
Confronted with the challenge
contained in the new American
tariff law, the buy in Canada"
movement has been aGgressively
revived since July and tl1rOughout
the dominion today there is an
Sf1ergetie campaign on to buy only
Those goods that are n1anufac-
tilred In Canada and which thus
do not carry the oTierOlls duties
imposed by the Snoot- Hawley bill.
Buy In, Canada
4 The new parliament, now in
Special session, is expected to
enact compensa tory duties against
American goods within a month.
But this legislative fact has not
served TO deter the nationalist
forces from agitating remedies OF
their own to meet the situation.
And one of the foremost RENE
dies proposed is buy in Canada"
Tie press is filled with 1t. ~edit0ri-
nlly and otherwise Great Cana
dian concerns, long suffering from
AnnerfcAn competition, have
adopted the slogan as their own.
Buy In Canada" flaunts itself
from billboards and newspaper I'D.
vertisernents at every turn.
IA remarkable suggestion has
been advanced editorially by the
influential Vancouver Sun, Edito'
fially; and by paid advertisements
iii other Canadian newspapers, 1t
advocates the placing OF q tariff
duty on the American advertising
that is; carried in newspapers and
periodicals. This suggestion Is
linked mp. of course. with the
ssbaiy in Canada movement.
Editorially the Sun has flooded
Canada with this:
"One reason why the lob Of
interesting Canadians In Ca
madam made goods Ii SO diff.
cult Is that Canada Is annually
flO0ded with millions Of dollars
worth 81 American advertising,
ArOusing and creating an appe
ffte and csire for American
RoOds. ssssjs.sss..,., s,
STRANGELY enough, the Cana
dian government places duty
on American goods, hgt places
No, duty nor restriction on the
American advertising that in
fluenOes the buying 0f those
American goods. AnG once .
real appetite or desire b ere
,atOd. no reasonable dmty win
prevent people from satisfying
af.ast, year s2oO. O.oas.Oee was ,
spent by American ,firaAs in
American magazine advertising.
Two per cent Of the, ulatiOn
Of those magazines came -
Canada. . ~
American magazines boast
tfaE they cover Canada. Four
million dollars worth Of AmeFi-
,. cen advertising entered Canada
! duty free. To those who under
stand modern business II ID very
clear that 81, ,O0O. .OOo worth 0f :
eAmierican advertising circulating
s.im Canada Ii one sure reason
why Canadians last year spent,
I'm the United States $SOO, ,0OO,-
go Of their money.
"And every g1,000 Of that
500, 90, coo meant another Ca
sladian ont OF q job.
Proposes ice r. G.
'sThat American advertising
entering Canada free 0f duty IL
und ndernRining the very foumda.
faons of Canadian nanufaetuEs
ing and Canadian livelihood.
'sTf IL is Logical and good busi-
ness, % answer the Fordney and
sna0ot. .Efawley tariffs with 10,
.g0 and 30 per cent duties on
American goods, Il II even more
lOgiCal and more necessary for
Our Canadian government to
taH. advertising, In American
l. asasFaxines circulation entering
Canada 1t least 100 per cent"
It might be said that the new
bennett conservative government,
faced with problems more plIner.
efs and grave than any cf. It's
time precedessors. has as yet
zen no eogrizance Of this mill
faiit coinpaieTl. Yet such Is the
temper Of Canada since the pas
saee Of the new American tariff
law that it may ultimately be
forced to do so. Il s..s Y I
Tariff Comes Later s.s.,S ~.
The new government came into,
;poWer on q platform nf ending
C1adian ,llIelnploynae aeElt, which s
eSlly serious. and of elaaettt1e
ii measures as win tend to fe1,;
n Dilitate iagging domestic ifls
siliistRfes.eI s ss
[ nus far Il has confined itself.
soE emergency relief for the I'M
employed, which Bennett proposes
to- solve through an Appropriation
q $40. .0O0, 600 for expediting and
initiating public works s :
.The. tariff retaliation will come
later. And when Il does it BODIES
no good for American business.
which last wear amounted To al.
most q billion dollars. making
Canada Americas best customer.