TEN COMMANDMENTS
AN INSTRUCTIVE GERMAN CIRCULAR. At a meeting of British manufacturers held in tho rooms of tho National Patriotic Association, St. Paul's Churchyard, the following "ten commandments" were read by Sir George Pragnell. They had, ho said, been circulated in thousands throughout Germany during the last three years:— 1. In all expenses keep in mind the interests of your own compatriots. 2. Never forget that when you buy a foreign articlo your own country is the poorer. 3. Your money .should profit no one but Germans. 4. Never profane German factories by using foreign machinery. 5. Never allow foreign eatables to be 6erved at your table. 6. Write on Germ<in paper with . ; a German pen and use German blotting paper. 7. German flour, German fruit, and German beer can alone give your body the true German energy. 8. If you do not like German malt coffee, drink coffee from German colo l nies.
9. Use only German clothes for your dress and German hats for your head. 10. Let not foreign flattery detract you from these precepts; and bo firmly convinced, whatover others say, thai German products are tho only' ones worthy of citizens .of tile German l'atherland.
While contrasting this propaganda with tho of. English huiics who insisted on buying foreign fashions at high prices, and of other English people who insisted on buying cheap, common foreign stuff with which no British firm could compete. Sir Georgo Pragnell deprecated any immediate boycott of foreign goods. It would be cruel, he argued, to those shopkeepers who already' held large stocks of German and Austrian manufactures for which there had hitherto been an insistent demand. Tho attack upon German and Austrian trade should come:from, the British manufacturers. They needed the assistance both of the banks and of the Government.
Resolutions were passed in. favour of sending deputations to the Chancellor of Hie Exchequer and the. Presidont.of tho' Board of Irade to 'Urge, thee© two points. . -
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2420, 27 March 1915, Page 15
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325TEN COMMANDMENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2420, 27 March 1915, Page 15
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