FUTURE PRICES FOR OUR PRODUCTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 6

FUTURE PRICES FOR OUR PRODUCTS

Sir Our genial bank chairman is deserving of credit for his industry in collecting and arranging interesting statists relating to the trade; and commerce of the Dominion, and al look forward to his helpful and generally hopeful anground when dealing ■with the statistical position ot the W. tat when he becomes prophetic and predicts o*o,l lower price* tor our ear th and all that it produces one s apt to pslc if Jeremiah's mantle has fallen upon h m for "ot, and he should happen toprWa false'prophet I would warn him of the terrible penalties wch ha" been carefully set down by the Elder J Manr will be found to join issue with him on the nuestkm of .till lower nrices. for our products, for if he ha igoten. producers cannot forget, that the parity of value of all. the earth produces n this Dominion is just about half tie nic« for similar quality in the market, J the world. If Prices shoulhappen to rule lower at Homc-and one would expect it-we in this Dominion have still the Food and Wool Commissioners marginal profit-! on our products to fall rckTponr*liic»<'»BM ,o , ,,Bam 'i jKJn, at least, present free-on-boan, ~\\m\v arc beginning lo think that these concessions in price have been, greatly overdone, and the lack of Dominion as well as Imperial reciprocity has proved an expensive pill for the producer here. In am- caw. we hare daily 'J™*™ evidence of the utter fallacy of trymr to regulalc trade and commerce and prices of produce by a board oMwlc or Orders-in-C'ouncil, and the first to admit it ought to be, tho board itself and the Minister in Ch.rge.-I am, etc.,