ahead in the House of Commons, the far-reaching effects of which must 

 be disturbing to trade and industry. 



Canada among the British Dominions over-sea, and India among her 

 Dependencies, have been specially noteworthy in the year 1910 as growing 

 markets for our manufactures. Unfortunately, in India the appreciation 

 of good quality is secondary to the desire for buying cheaply, but 

 gradually it is beginning to be recognised there that want of technical 

 knowledge on the part of many buyers is being exploited by certain firms 

 in an almost criminal manner, by throwing upon the Indian market wares 

 of which "cheapness" is absolutely the only qualification. Several firms 

 in our trade have made a speciality of the sale in India of large quan- 

 tities of alcohol-free flower-oils, put up in small, more or less tastefully 

 decorated bottles, and are trying by this means to get into closer and 

 closer direct touch with the buying public. We regard this proceeding 

 as calculated seriously to injure the interests of the perfumery industry, 

 and we therefore willingly forego the temptation to try for business of 

 this kind. For although this trade is a very profitable one, it should 

 undoubtedly remain the preserve of one of the most esteemed classes of 

 our clientele, and we regard it as our moral duty to protect the interests 

 of that class, no matter what profits may escape us in so doing. Business 

 in Canada, which has developed last year in a most gratifying manner, 

 is unfortunately threatened by a somewhat serious danger in the form 

 of the previously alluded to proposed Reciprocity-Treaty between the 

 Dominion and the United States. It is stated by the German Central 

 Office for the Preparation of Commercial Treaties that, according to 

 declarations by the Canadian Government, it is now certain that the 

 exemptions and reductions of duty to be granted by Canada will not be 

 applicable to German products. Hence the Treaty, if ratified, will place 

 German goods in Canada at a disadvantage compared with American, 

 whereas hitherto the treatment of the products of both countries has been 

 the same for Customs purposes. As regards the articles on which Canada, 

 by virtue of her commercial treaty with France, has granted concessions 

 to the last-named country, several other nations (Switzerland, Austria- 

 Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia and Spain), benefit equally 

 under the most -favoured nation clause. It follows that the reductions 

 and exemptions of duty which are now to be accorded to the United States 

 must also be, in part at any rate, conceded to the other countries named, 

 and this will result in a further displacement to our disadvantage of the 

 conditions under which competition is carried on. So far as competition 

 with the United Kingdom is concerned, British goods will to be fiscally 

 favoured in every respect as compared with German, whereas the fiscal 

 advantages now accorded to Britain as compared with the United States 

 will be abrogated so far as the articles mentioned in the new Treaty are 

 concerned. Up to the present the United States Government has not yet 



