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Show USE AMERICAN GOODS. Free traders in America, and by the way there do not seem to be many European free traders anymore, are still insisting that the United States ought to lower its tariff barriers and admit a flood of cheaply-made foreign for-eign goods, on the theory that this would enable us to sell more goods in impoverished Europe which can only take a very small portion of our products even in prosperous times. The fact that cheap foreign goods would disrupt our great home market which has always been the cornerstone corner-stone of American prosperity bothers these free traders of ours not a little, giving rise to the well grounded suspicion sus-picion that what they most desire ir not the prosperity of America but a bettering of conditions in Europe even -f his can only be brought about at the injury of American enterprise. The big financial quarters of the East, and Wall street especially, are frequently accused of forming the background of this modern and internationalist inter-nationalist free trade sentiment in America. It is pleasing, therefore, to quote the following from that conservative con-servative journal, "The Magazine of I Wall Street": "If we are to accelerate the pace of business most effectively, we must preserve home markets for ourselves! Competition of foreign goods is increasing in-creasing in our own stores and shops, despite tariff barriers. It is time ws took a leaf out of Great Britain's book to 'buy British goods only,' and resolve to give preference to American Ameri-can goods. If we ignore low-priced foreign merchandise, it will foster ouv own industrial production and speed ! the return of prosperity. It will solve the problem of unemployment. Buy American-made goods and put every man back on the job!" Americans are more and more com ing to realize that after all, if we want to restore normal conditions at home we must begin at home and not go wool gathering in Europe. Of course we want conditions in Europe j to improve, too, and the quickest way ' for our internationalists to help bring j; this about is by helping to put Uncle j Sam on his feet first of all. |