The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-23

plies by England unloading again on
an unsuspecting American public
bonds which will be OKed by our In
ternational Bankers? Is it necessary
that our international Bankers be fur
nished with goods and other products
of England and other foreign work.
ers to insure the payment of this pro-
posed new loan?
at will be interesting to examine
the possibilities of expanding our
foreign trade except for those prod
ucts produced by our monopolies, by
our automobile manufacturers the beef
trust, our office equipment manufac-
turers and few others of like nature
who have millions with which they
can gamble
Must Secure License
at is our understanding that 81
foreign nations require one to secure
license in order to either import or
export any commodity, and, in order
to secure that license one must adj
here to such conditions as the gov
ernment sees fit to impose. 1t is pos
sible that the products of any of our
medium sized or small factories will
find market in our expanding foreign
trade? My observation of our enlarged
foreign trade for the past few years
warrant the belief that for the most
part, it consisted of implements of
war and those articles on goods which
the foreign nations needed because
their own workers were engaged in the
more important work of producing
war materials.
Assuming, however, that Congress
in authorizing our entry into trade
treaties, was not imposed upon and
that the State Department has made
an honest effort to increase, instead Of
depriving, American workers of their
job opportunities, what are the possi-
bilities Of our enlarging our foreign
trade without injury to our own work.
e-s?
First, a study Of some of the trade
treaties entered into show that we are
subsidizing Cuban trade with Japan
and Germany. While Cuba was in
creasing her imports from the United
States some 50 per cent, she increased
her imports from Japan 265 per cent.
During the year 1885 the reduction
in the duty of our imports of Cuban
sugar alone, plus the price we paid
over the price other nations paid for
Cuban sugar, cost the American peo-
pie some eighty millions of dollars.
In order to sell to Cuba some sixty
millions of dollars worth in one year,
we paid Cuba a subsidy of more than
eighty millions Of dollars.
Treaty With Canada
"Our trade treaty with Canada
fairly illustrates what is going on
an several items on which we Sc
cured alleged concessions we find Can
ada collecting the same duty only they
collect it on different basis For in
stance, prior to our entry into this
trade treaty we paid duty of three
cents a pound on raisins as raisinS
were on the General Tariff List. After
we had entered into this trade treaty
we paid duty of three cents pound
on raisins shipped into Canada, only
it was then on the Intermediate list.
On our shipment Of tin-coated sheets
into Canada, prior to our entry into
this trade treaty, we paid duty of
20 per cent, and after our entry into
this trade treaty with Canada on our
/. shipments of tin-coated sheets, we paid
!. a duty of 20 per cent. Distinctions
without a difference.
"We entered into a Trade Treaty
| with the Netherlands whereby we
, agreed to reduce the duties on imports
of Sumatra tobacco, among other
valuable concessions. Sumatra tobacco
, is the product Of indentured labor
slave labor almost-in the Far East
. and we reduced the duty a dollar
pound, which was Immediately added
, to the profits of the Dutch bankers
who own all these tobacco plantations.
In return for these concessions our
principal improvement was that we
were entitled to sell five per cent of
the wheat flour sold in the Neither
lands, a country with about the same
number of people as live in New York
City, provided that our prices were
not above world prices.
"In our own country where the
workers alone, in normal times, have
purchasing power greater than all
the people of Europe and greater than
the more than one billion peoples of
the Asiatic countries, where we have
: so per cent Of the worlds radio sets,
and, where we use more than so per
cent of the worlds coffee, more than
20 per cent of the worlds sugar, 60 per
, per cent of the worlds petroleum,
and some SO per cent of the worlds
silk do you doubt what will happen
5 when the American people militantly
r decide to BUY AMERICAN?
2 Need Tariff Protection
: "We need adequate tariff protection.
We need tariff legislation. However,
/ for the present, until we can secure
S the necessary tariff legislation, we
: should pledge ourselves and our fami-
lies, and, we should prevail upon our
s friends and our neighbors not only to
= BUY AMERICAN. but. in addition,