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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12546, 24 May 1909, Page 4

■ ■„■■ ■;.;..■■ ■ ,'■ .;■'■- —.: ' I. A much travelled . American gentleman writes: — "You can blame your tariff, you can blame your trade methods, you can blame What you like but if .you lose your pre-eminence as a nation Ijshall. blame your, absurdity and luxury. Does- it "{not starid';to, reason, that: you cannot bear, the force of the trade competition of peoples so economic as the Germans and Swiss: if you pile comfort on comfort, as I see ; you doing every. year in ' Xiondon? There is the problem, of Enslaud to-day : there will be- the i problem of America , to-marrow. a race of. Epicureans yill not survive.