The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-05-13
Plate Glass Under Protection.

The enormous growth of the plate
glass industry in the United States is
strikingly illustrated by the request
that manufacturers are about TO make
10 the treasury department relative to
the restrictive provisions of TIE contract
labor law. It is claimed by these manu-
facturers that fully 1,5O6 skilled work
ers will be needed within the present
year to equip and run establishments
now nearing completion. and that these
laborers must be brought from Europe,
as they can not be obtained here Ordi-
narily protected industry makes slow
and steady growth, educating new work
men as they are needed. The plate
glass industry, however. in two years
time has increased So rapidly that gla-
tiers glass is no longer imported. but
entirely supplied for home consumption
By our own glass works.
Prior to 1sss, the importation of plate
glass for glazing purposes was very
large. Since that time. however. the
home product so largely increased each
year that the importation steadily de-
creased until 1890, when it entirely
ceased, so far as glazing quality is con-
cerned. According to the above table
the product will be 20 per cent. larger
before the close of 1891. and plate glass
become SO cheap that it can be used in
the most ordinary structures.
Fifteen years ago plate glass was
selling at an average price of about $50
per square foot land the manufacturer
lost money at that. but to-day the
average price per foot is about sixty
cents, and the margin of profit is still
large. These changes, both as relate to
prices and the supply of the home mar
ket by a home product. have been
achieved under fostering tariff and in
the face of the fact that the product has
been far short of the demand until the
past year.
The only plate glass of any large i'm
portation now is the silvering quality
of small sizes. which American manu-
facturers claim they cannot afford to
produce under the present low duty on
glass under ten square feet
American Women should Buy American
Goods
To Mrs W. D. Owen. wife of Repre-
sentative Owen Of Indiana. are the fol-
lowing sensible and patriotic sugges-
tons credited:
wish our women could be persuaded
to buy only American products 1t
would be great benefit to the country
at large. and at the same time result in
the growth of true American spirit in
women. Many of the American goods
are superior to the imported ones, and
are sold to US for foreign goods. For
one, object to being fooled in that |
way. and if sensible women once APP
preciate how easily this could be |
checked and that the remedy is in their |
own hands, while at the same time they |
could put money into the pockets of |
their husbands and brothers. they would |
At once start a crusade In favor of pur- |
chasing only American goods. not only |
silks, but ginghams, cambrics and |
lawns: in fact everything that goes into
a woman's wardrobe. To ask if an ar
ticle is imported is to make an opening |
for some dry goods clerk to fool one,
and no woman likes to be made ridic u
IouS know of prominent women who
are of the same opinion. and if NOV E.
ment was projected that was made
and seasoned with comm on
sense literally. there are plenty of wo-
men in the country who would find time
and inclination to give II sound support
By all means let Us have American dry |
goods for American women"