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Show m .iY AMERICAN pkoduts. II. II. Stevens, minister o trade and commerce in Canada, has launched a nation-wide advertising campaign urging his fellow citizens in every part of the dominion "to give Canadians Cana-dians worK by buying Canadian products." pro-ducts." This appears to be a common sense method of reviving industry in Canada, Can-ada, having some points over many fancy schemes for resorting prosperity prosper-ity in tho United States. During periods of universal employment em-ployment Americans can well afford to purchase commodities without reference to the origin. During a time like this regard for their own interests inter-ests ought to induce Americans to prefer American production to imported im-ported articles. Most imported articles derive their cheapness from the low wages paid workers abroad. Most of the economic econom-ic troubles we are now in is due to the fact that there has been too great a displacement of domestic by foreign for-eign production. But if you buy something brought from abroad you are neglecting an opportunity to stimulate production and employment at home by making sure that your money goes into . the pockets of foreign rather than American Ameri-can producers. Moreover .when you buy something of foreign origin usually sold here because it can be bought more cheaply cheap-ly than the corresponding commodity produced at home, and not often at a lower domestic price you are to that extent- putting a premium on a cheapness chiefly- secured through paying wages -below, often far below, the American level. Articles of foreign origin must under un-der the law be marked, so that it is not difficult to tell when you are buying buy-ing a domestic product and thus keeping keep-ing the wheels moving in the United States, instead of in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, Japan or some other cheap labor market. . Buy madc-in-America products at this time and thus hasten the return of a period of full employment and of general prosperity. |