TRADE SLOGANS.

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1785, 22 July 1926, Page 5

TRADE SLOGANS.

Sir,— Recently, at the nequ:est of the British rotary clubs, the British Post Office decided to discontinue the use as a stamp for letters of the slogan, ■“ British 'Goods are Best.” It is difficult to understand the motives that led to the making of the request. The one advanced—that it would antagonise Americans—soundls very unconvincing. What about the French, the Germans, the Belgians, th:e Italians—in short, all the other manufacturing peoples of the world? The sloga nwould, surely be as offensive to them a s to the Americans; yet no one interposed on their behalf. Patriotic Britons cannot but wonder what is the real reason underlying the request of the rotary clubfe. There is a suspicion abroad that it was the result of trans-Atlantic pressure. We, in New Zealand, are spending far too much in the United States, which has erected a protective wall of high duties to keep our chief primary products out of its markets. It is a country seeking to sell to us without buying from us. We should in feelf-defence .deal;, eftsmuch as we can with the Mother Country, which not only sells to us but also buys from us. Unless we change our ways we run the risk of becoming, economically, if not optically, a tributary state.—l am. etc., BRITISH.