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Show begin to buy goods made in our own country in which we live and make a living. from the American people would not get very far. It would interfere too much with the cosmic ideas of our editors, college economists and others who think it would be wicked and selfish sel-fish not to favor the output of cheap labor as against that of well-paid American labor. Nothing is so popular in Europe, and nothing so unpopular here, as nationalism. na-tionalism. We allow foreign influences to control public thought in America in the matter of defending our standards stan-dards of living through tariff protection, protec-tion, while these same countries keep their continent covered with 30 times as many tariff fences as we have in a similar area on this continent for we have the biggest free trade unit in the world. If the American people would give preference to commodities of American Ameri-can origin, every mine, factory and mill would soon be busy. But in so doing, they would fail to show forth that beautiful spirit of international altruism so much preached here, and so little practiced in any other country. coun-try. Millions of Americans would prefer pre-fer to buy an article made cheap by the cheapening of the man who produces pro-duces it under the system of labor exploitation practiced across the oceans, than to give his patronage where it would help a fellow American Ameri-can to maintain an American family :n decency in comfort. Perhaps when we are as nearly pauperized as England Eng-land has become through buying where she could buy the cheapest, we may experience here, too, a revival of patriotism and common sense, and WHERE NATIONALISM IS POPULAR. Great Britain has launched a "Buy British Goods" campaign. The Prince of Wales makes an appeal to the people of the empire to purchase commodities com-modities grown or made by British workmen. The campaign has enlisted enlist-ed the support of all classes. The jobless job-less add their appeal. The argument is made that the purchase of British made commodities makes fewer Britons jobless. A campaign such as this looks like a simple policy of self-preservation. It would not be possible in the United States. Our people have been well educated by the metropolitan newspapers, by the "economists" and the domestic enemies of American industry in-dustry to believe that it is much more broad-minded to buy foreign, than domestic, articles. A tariff that comes anywhere near measuring the difference differ-ence in labor costs at home and abroad is denounced as the sum of all villainies. vil-lainies. It is possible to get up plenty of enthusiasm for a campaign to relieve the unemployed, but one to put the unemployed to work by giving the American jobless more patronage |
