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Excerpt from A Letter to an English Friend From a Member of the Canadian Manufacturers Association Party of England, June 1905: Written After the Return to Canada
I heard often that cheap food had to be had for the English artisan. What benefit is cheap food to the English artisan if the employment which would enable him to buy that food is not given to him. But. Is given to his foreign competitor? We ('anadians think that without any increase being made in the cost of the food of the English artisan there are many ways in which he can be given employment and trade so that he may buy the food which we are told he can not now buy for want of work to earn the means to buy it. For example. The price of pianos. Drugs, sewing machines, razors, ete does not all'ect the price of food, yet we found that an immense amount of money was being sent out of England for these articles made by foreigners. We believe they can be made as cheaply in England and sold at as low rates, quality considered, as are now paid for foreign goods, at the same time giving employ ment to large numbers of workmen and so enable them to buy the food that they cannot now buy. Is it not cheaper and also better for the stamina of the nation to provide work and by it food than to give the food as a charity? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
