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national trade—a major consideration in the crusade for a sound and
lasting peace, a goal which is as vital to this and each of the other
States as it is to the Federal establishment.

In its true purpose, the bill, if allowed to become law, would have
all the attributes of class legislation plus the impropriety of pre-
judgment against a company whose practices of business have not
yet had the privilege of trial in Maryland.

From either standpoint, such unprecedented and illogical legislation
would have a deleterious effect on the highly successful efforts of
Maryland, its political subdivisions and its various business and civic
associations to bring new business and industry into the State in
these years of growth and expansion.

I have noted the text of the report published in 1955 by the Re-
strictive Trade Practices Commission of the Canadian Department of
Justice which was used so extensively in the arguments favoring
Senate Bill 38 before both me and the General Assembly. While I
do not condone some of the practices attributed therein to Canadian
Breweries, Ltd., I have taken cognizance of the fact that many of the
circumstances stressed in the report are dated a score of years ago
and more; also that they occurred under Canadian laws and not under
those of the United States or Maryland.

Beyond that, I am especially cognizant of the fact that Carting,
while a subsidiary of the Canadian company, is an American cor-
poration, chartered in Virginia and already operating breweries in
the United States and distributing its products on a nationwide basis.

One of the Carting breweries is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and I
have before me a copy of a letter from Governor Frank J. Lausche
of Ohio, describing the Carting Brewing Company as "a good citizen,"
and another from Mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze terming the Carting
Company "an asset to the City of Cleveland."

Writing of the Carting plant now in the process of construction
at Natick, Massachusetts, Governor Christian A. Herter of that
Commonwealth wrote of the company as being in "favorable repute
and a good corporate citizen."

I am aware of the expressions of fear that Carting located in the
Baltimore area, may seriously hurt or even drive local companies out
of business, but I am advised, too, that the Carting Company seeks
a Baltimore area location not alone to share in the local market, but
to service a seven-State area, which, it should be noted again, already
is being served by the company from other plants.

I have before me a copy of the Journal of Commerce of February
2, 1956, containing a story which notes that a Cleveland brewer other
than Carting has acquired the No. 1 spot in sales in the Cleveland
market.

I am confident that the well established brewing company in Mary-
land and the enterprising businessmen who own and operate them
can hold their own against any new competition in the Baltimore
market area.

If there is danger of unfair practices, illicit in their nature, from
any source, the remedy should lie in the strengthening of existing laws
to deal with such practices if and when they made their appearances—
not in the barring of an enterprise because of its record of success
in competition.

I join with the breweries of Maryland and of the United States in
frowning upon the tariff walls which have been erected against