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Show ANTI-AMERICAN INTERNATIONALISM. Internationalists have educated American public opinion against just American interests until there is a complete lack of comprehension of the lengths to which European nations, especially, go in handicapping American Ameri-can trade, in addition to tariffs which arc on the average as high as our own. . One of these systems of discrimination discrimin-ation is the quota of contingent system, sys-tem, which has been applied to important im-portant American products, such as motor cars and moving pictures. For instance, Austria permits only seventy seven-ty American motor cars to enter that county of nine million people each year. France, and Germany have led n the application of the quota or contingent con-tingent system as applied to American Ameri-can imports. Two years ago Franco tried to apply "what amounted to an embargo on American motion pictures, pic-tures, preferred in that country because be-cause of their greater popular approval. ap-proval. Only when exhibitors and patrons pat-rons rose in rebellion and the American Ameri-can companies prepared to shut up shop and discharge several thousand employees was this scheme moderated. Berlin dispatches tell of the plans of the German government to reduce the importation of foreign moving pictures to 120 a year. This is only the culmination of a long period of growing restriction. Suppose the United States government govern-ment were to attempt to limit the number of German vessels that could enter our ports in any one year, or put into effect that for every- European Euro-pean book or work of art shipped into America an American book or work of art should be purchased by Europe. Eu-rope. What caterwaulings would arise from our internationalists! The rest of the world can go as far as it likes in hamstringing American Am-erican business and not a protest arises from the United States. But let the United States take a step to protect American industry and what a chours of protest arises! The truth is beginning, however, to sink in on this country that we have been so very busy looking after the rest of the world that some need has arisen to look after domestic interests. |