The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914. TRADE WITH CANADA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 39, 2 October 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914. TRADE WITH CANADA.

One thing the present great war will certainly do is to draw closer the trade relationship of the Empire within itself, and it is absolutely certain that many articles which we were in the past obtaining from Germany, must come from some British possession or < from the friendly countries that have stood together in .this righteous but .terribly costly struggle for the freedom of the whole of Europe. One of the most ardent supporters of trade reciprocity at the present time is Mr W. A. Beddoe, Canadian Trade Commissioner, who is at present in New Zealand. . Speaking to the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce the other evening, Mr Beddoe said there were two services between Canada and New Zealand—one through, the Pacific, on which the steamers went both ways because it was subsidised by New Zealand, and one leaving the East Coast of Oanadia for New Zealand. By this service the Canadian Government paid £2400 per month for a boat per month, because when Canada sold goods she always delivered them. After coming to New Zealand these boats did not return to Canada, but were loaded in Australia or somewhere else, for Europe. The question of subsidising the steamers to return to the East Coast of Canada was worthy of consideration. Figures were given to explain the position. Mew Zealand, who had been paying £2OOO a'day to Germany for trade and in return was getting back £IOOO a day. On the other hand, Canada was giving New Zealand £2OOO a day and New Zealand was giving her bad.' £IOOO a day. Why not give to Canada the money that was going to Germany? very pertinently asked Mr Beddoe. He explained that his idea would bo free-trade within the Empire, but feared they could not quite get that, though they could have Preference within the Empire. With this suggestion wo entirely agree, and think it is certainly the duty altogf tlier of merchants, retailers, and purchasers of goods, each in their turn to decline to have anything whatever to do with goods made in Germany. When a nation is so utterly lost to every honorable feeling that it will go so far as to repudiate the debts it owes another nation for goods supplied, and has the further hardihood and impudence to insultingly tell its creditors that the moneys owing to them are invested in a war loan—raised with the frantic, but at this stage surely despairing, hope that it may crush the very country whose money has been thus stolen—surely _ it is more than foolishness to continue to have any trade or commercial relations' with such a country. Outside the shameful deeds of Germany on the i battlefield, her dishonorable practices i in matters of trade surely culminated i in the impudent announcement made to the Bradford wool men by German firms the other day. Referring once more to trade within the Empire, it will be interesting to know that New

.Zealand trade with Canada grew from £II,OOO in 1908 to £622,000 last year.' Canada bought from New Zealand £622,000, and New Zealand bought from Germany £6Bo,ooo,vand much of this money might have been equally I well spent in Canada or some other | British dependency, while at the same .time those who contributed the moneyj would not be chagrined by the thought 'that they have helped to buy German iguns to kill their own kith and km, 'and have added to the profits of jKrupp's, of which the treacherous 'monarch who is the world's arch-dis-Iturber is the principal partner.