Foreign News: Cod-Liver Oil

Smart Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the orthodox (Free Trade) Liberal Party, fired an effective broadside of cod-liver oil last week at the MacDonald-Baldwin National Government from which he and Lord Snowden resigned on the tariff issue

(TIME, Oct. 10).

“I want to give just one illustration.” cried Sir Herbert last week at a female Liberal rally, “of how the interests of the British consumer were ignored by the National Government at the Ottawa [Tariff] Conference. The most valuable medicine for delicate children is cod-liver oil. Hundreds of thousands of poor parents in this country have to buy bottle after bottle to save the lives and strengthen the bodies of their babies, and most of it has been coming from Norway duty free. But now the delegates of the British Government have agreed at Ottawa to impose a tariff of 45% on cod-liver oil for the benefit of Newfoundland.

“How did they dare make this enormous addition to the cost of medicine essential to the health of our poorest children? But there it stands on the records of Ottawa, signed in behalf of this country by Stanley Baldwin!”