Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-01-28
THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1882.
BUY AMERICAN

In no other activity of human society is the new nation
alism, now evident in most of the countries of the world,
more manifest than in commerce. There has been a revi-
val almost everywhere of the doctrine ''buy at home"
1t has not been altogether a question of tariffs in Great
Britain. In addition to the protective schedules adopted,
there has grown up in the British Isles, and especially in
England itself, a tremendous public sentiment for pur-
chasing goods manufactured at home by British workmen.
All over London, and in many provincial cities too it is
said, there are electric signs carrying the slogan "buy
British" which means, "buy only goods of British manu.
facture.' British magazines and newspapers carry ad-
vertlslng imploring the people to buy British goods and
so build up British industries.
over IN Germany the people have ceased buying manu.
featured goods except those produced at home, wherever
this is humanity possible. Germany still depends on other
nations, as England does, for the greater part of her raw
materials, but her people are wherever possible consuming
only German goods. This is vitality necessary because
Germany must have a big favorable trade balance to pay
Indebtedness abroad.
French tariffs too, are known everywhere, for their eff
forts to encourage French industries of every sort. It is
only in the United States where there is now any consider
able lnteInationalist sentiment for buying abroad. In
spite OF the fact that the shelves in our stores are filled
with goods manufactured in England, in France, in Ger
many, in Italy, in Bohemia and elsewhere, the free traders
tell us that "our tariffs are too high" and our foreign
trade lis being throttled. - The Stiffness of the argument
is proved by the very fact that these foreign-made goods
are found in our shops and stores. The Progressive La
Dor World, organ of the American Federation of Labor
very sensibly sums up the situation e~dftorially as follows:
Goods of equal attractiveness, equal charm, equal
utility, are turned out in large quantities by American
producers. But they can't be bought quite so cheaply.
American manufacturers pay their hands anywhere from
five to ten times as much money for a days work as work
ers of the same grade are paid abroad. So that even with
a tariff levy fixed on these foreign wares to prevent them
from driving American-made articles of the same grade
out of the American market, American goods cost the
consumer a few cents more.
Where is the campaign that should be organized and
functioning here to encourage the buying of goods made
in the United Statesg
Every dollar that is spent on American-made goods
goes to keep the American factory open, to provide en-
ployment for American workers, and to defend the Amer
lean wage scale and the American standard of living
against the pauper wage standards of the Far East and
continental Europe.
"Must we, as a people, complete the general devastation
of American ideals by exhibiting a preference for the
wares of Europe's pauper-paid workers?
eff Buy British and Buy German-why not sBuyI
Americana
why not keep American money on American soilY,
We don't know just what is going to happen at the
coming PREPARATIONS conference in Lausanne but we know
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