EMPIRE TARIFFS.
'{■ ■■ CANADA AND GERMANS - I;; MAILED FIST POLICY DOES NOT PAY.. ■.. V . ' : THE SURTAX, ■ ;.\- ; [BY TBLEOniPH—PEESS iSSOOIATIOS—COPIEIOHT.) ' ; (Red.. January 28, 9.18; p.m.) , .r Ottawa, January 28. Speaking in the Canadian Senate, the Min-. ister for • Commerce (Sir; R. J. . Cartwright), stated that there,had been'pourparlers. with t German offioials regarding' Canada's surfas on German goods. He added:—: . .■■■:■ ::■■•' "Canada's' legislation is riot directed against Germany. It is in the power of Germany to obtain more favourable tariff relations'with, Canada by placing Canada in: the same position with regard', to the. German tariff as".she held before the introduction ■of, Canadian .preference -to., Britain, caused: Germany, to shake'ine',' mailed;,fist' and to put us in ah unfavourable po&ition to send goods- to Germ , any.;"" :■'.'■;. ;•;■-■ : ; ,:/ ■;'-;j.| ■" Canada's 'surtax' followed/: and as .Ger-, many is selling sevenfold in-Canada compared with Canada's sales in.Germany the.latter'is beginning to see where her interests lie." ;- ' ' ' -V : ; . \:';[' ■ .■:;:. '.': j ■' [The "mailed fist" was originally a Kaisorism. Countries; which; give to Canada ,inaj\'obtain the benefit of''the'''Canadiari:ißter-, mediate dariff,] : ..fi' ' > . ' '■■-.'?-, ■■'.'^
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 418, 29 January 1909, Page 5
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166EMPIRE TARIFFS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 418, 29 January 1909, Page 5
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