Mr. Duncan Campbell in his article goes on to tell
us a most luciferous story in support of his proposal:—
" A friend of mine travelling in Finland within the last few
weeks was. offered an order for, mpproximately, . half- a million pounds' worth of men's clothing. -approximately, was anxious to take the offer. It would have given employment for six months to fifteen hundred hands. But the payment offered him was in standards of timber. He had no idea hew much timber went to a standard, or the Value of a standard. He did not know how or where to sell the timber if he had obtained it. He had not the remotest idea whether the •bargain was a bad one or a good one. He might have made a hundred thousand pounds or lost a hundred thousand pounds on the transaction. He was prepared to run ordinary trade risks, but this was a speculation which no business man could entertain. So, most reluctantly, be declined the order. Employment needed in England, timber needed in England, clothing urgently needed in ussia—and yet the whole transaction was dropped owing to the uncertainty of values."
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