IF ENGLAND FAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 10

IF ENGLAND FAILS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—While reading "Looker-on's" letter with interest; I believe be has missed the chief point-in discussing the evil effects of buying outside the Empire. One might say at present that it is as unpatriotic, or more so, to. purchase German goods than American. A purchase of a German article will tend to put the Germans in a better position to pay their debts to England and to England's debtors; a purchase from America will be similarly a hindrance to Britain's endeavour to accumulate the funds in America necessary to pay her gigantic obligations in that country. Furthermore, does not any intelligent person considering the purchase of, , say,' a motor vehicle or agricultural implement in these days, look upon our "cousins" across the Pacific as an opulent Shylock in the act of carving his pound of flesh, out of a helpless Europe, and upon Britain as a poverty-stricken, but honest victim of a bad bargain made while "up against it?" ■Wβ cannot all escape from cheap American cars, but we can do our ■best by example and precept (note the order) to give the ''under dogs"—even although they be our' fellow-countryrhen —some sort of a show-. In other words, keep the "yellow streak"' out of our buying.—l am, etc. WATCH-DOG. —_: . . I