Milford chronicle., 1891-05-29
american Croekery.
81 1onn.s AR1zoNA. MAJ, 6, So.

81. IoHN's ARIZONA, MAY, g, 1891.
FnTroR AMERICAN ECONOMIST
7 have been a reader Of your paper ior
saveral wears. and 1 am convinced that
oi,1ost .anv one issue contains more knock
5o,,,, blog-s to Free-Trade than any other
Ho,,er in America. Will you explain
III i ;s that in the Southwest you find
o,,iv Fnelish-made crockery! WhlIe
reading an account OF Inc amer ASd an
Protective Tariff League" banqpst Io-uay
a leadinq merchant in our town, a sla,'iiSn !
Republican and Proteetionlst, remarked
81 see that only american crockery was
used. Now, why IS 1t that all the croCk-
er,,. z receive in my business bears IAS
stamp Of an English manufacture
would-siucla prefer American goods anu
7 can't understand why the wholesalers
send me English goods if American crock
erv can be sold as cheap" By answer
mo the above you will greatly oDlige
many workers in the cause OF 'Protec-
tiou TO American Industries"
Very truly, yours,
Root, L. MORRISON.
We sent the above to Mr. J. Hart
Rrewer of Trenton. We print his reply
below:
TrENroN, N. J., May 18th, 1891.
Enron AMERICAN ECONOMIST;
Yours of the I4th inst, inclosing letter
e., yo,, Of Robert f. Morrison, St. John S
Arizona, at hand. a..
unite agree with him as to the
strenoth of the arguments in the E60H0
Uist In reply to what he says about IN
oiish crockerv being used i'll the South
SS1eet and West exclusively. / will say tina
much of the crockery sold with the En-
| giish stamps manufactured in this coun
r. aud hears that trade mark to please
tt,e wholesale dealer and enable him tC
Ill II along with his English goods. i
is not generally known, but II Is iacl
that more than one-halt OF the crocKerl
used in the United States to-day IS I'M
norted. In the early manufacture Ill tnl
country, of course, the ware was not as 600
as the imported, aud the usual .Preludlc'
existed in the minds OF American con
snmers: in addition to this preJudlc
which applies to every line OF gooo
which we attempt to manufacture III Uni
II Is singular to note it, and more pro
vodiug than singular, because It IS base
luDou an un-American and unpatrlou
idea. One would think that an Amer
can citizen would prefer everything tha
he used should be made in his own cour
trv. especially so his crockery ware, a
the competition created by the develop
ment of the industry in this country sinc
1850 has reduced the cost Of all KINDS
nIain and decorated earthen and chine
ware one.half and improved the qualit
and selection and increased the size thi
much more. But still, as above STATED
this prejudice had to be pandered to b
fine wholesale dealers, and they have a
wavs insisted upon our putting the I'll
glish stamp upon all white granite ware
sIthough some few American manuia
tuners have from time to time adoplte
some other stamp, but always to their de
ri1uent and the Inconvenience OF I'll
wholesale trade. -.
For all this, the potters OF the Unite
States have drifted into other grades
potterv so that to-day almost all the de
GRATED goods bear the American trat
mark. and the white granite goods aboN
t referred to has assumed a position thi
t warrants a trade mark Of its own, and
keeping with the spirit of the people wi
advocate Protection to American lndu
tries. Yours very truly,
7. II BREWER.