Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-15

faane in nea said. "Cio ASK your
uloEbor. mV scar hesirated a bit o.
fore i told hLl Whar thought ~ Il.
AM az last began. NY boy. answered
4 -Drorecuoa Is the salvation II your
country Il means putting the Ameri-
can dollars into the picket Of that great
mass ~ honest men and Womsn, the
WORKING people n America Il means
giVlng them fair wages for good work.
IL uaesns giViaz them the tiEis 10 learn
- d. tbe work As it Is done By the besE
IN the world. People who dont think
talk about materials being cheaper IA
England nd 10 france-people who
don't care bay their frocks on the other
side, pay the duty GA them and then
count that they have got them cheap.
Nave theyf
DOSR WRONG THE WORKING PEOPLE.
They have got them AZ the expense
Of the WOrkIngma and tho small
white faced children belonging . him.
who tell Ia their hungry looks the story
Of the short wages father gets, are the
lest evidences Of the wrong Of free trade
and the rght oi protection. We can DO
anything Ne IS ilt IN this eOuntry-we
have got the brains, No have got the
money, and thank God, We have got the
men. The big manufacturers may tell
you that their workmen have % learn,
but the foreign workman who comes
over To teach them gets ia exchange for
dirty. low howell and a miserable pit
lance q pleasant home with q garden
- a D. L. 49,
and girls may BE- educated. and tho feel
ing that be Is an independents man.
You have read about al the trouble
IN Ireland You know what caused il.
IL came from the rich people going &c
London % spend their money, and that
viii be the trouble IN this country soon
unless the women rise up Ia their might
and decline % buy anything except that
which Is designed and made ia their own
country
English women Of position, realizing
the way things are tending that -
women ike the Princess Of Wales and
the queen herseif--haye tried 10 make
IRISH poplin fashionable. and today Lady
Zetland. wife OF the viceroy of Ireland.
u doing everything possible 70 push
irish lace. so that many OF the fashiona-
ole hats are trimmed with II, and many
OF the court dresses have IL upon them.
An English woman thinks she has done
something for her country when she
draws design for her own gown and
has II woven ia English looms. That Is
the point We want % reach.
This spring when the court was in
mourning the shopkeepers said they
didn't mind very much. as the AIneri-
cans would come over there and spend
their money. Now why do they do II:
They made their money here, and the
best kind Of patriotism Is IN circulating
the money made in your own country.
among your own people. That Is the
patriotism the American women do not
know. which they have got To learn and
which protection TEACHES.
GOOD EXAMPLE By MRS. HARRISON.
Mrs. Harrison did her best in this
direction when she wore at the inau-
guration ball brocade woven In
American mills. designed and made by
an American dressmaker. Then. too,
my boy. y0n remember the silver gray
wore and which you all liked so
much? That was made Of American
silk trimmed with lace manufactured
right here IN New York city. and the
material was inst as pretty and the
trimming "a dainty as any that ever
passed through a French or English
mans hands"
MINIS CLOTHING ABROAD.
But said the boy, aren't mems
clothes cheaperf" | laughed az this and
said: Don't You remember your Cousin
Arthur's frock coat2 He thought he
paid small sum for it IN London, but
when be got home he had to pay a tailor
here 10 refit IL. Still IL wasn't right
Them he went 10 another tailor; still il
IL didnt &c. and AZ last he went 10 an
other one. who had the frankness TO tell
MIN that there was no uss trying 70 do
anything with is. as. although no tailOrs
IN the world cut like tho American ones.
even they can't make a good joo out Of
an English botch. 80 poor Arthur found
himself. "a The old proverb goes, with
an elephant on his hands. His English
coat wouldn't az. couldn't ht. and hs
mad the doubtful pleasure of KNOWING
tnst ~ could have got a coat for one
hall what TITS had cost him. could have
had it made Of equally good cloth, and
fs would have fitted MIN anil been of
some use. though inst inside the collar
would have oeon au American tailor 5
stsmp
~Y1u'vs seem tia storm coat that was
brought over TO me3 NV measurements
were sent exactly. and the result Is that
have coat that trains on the ground.
that - 600 big for me ia the neck. and
which IL would cost more than 10 Is
worth - have al red Next season III
bay a new cue 81 an American manu-
fsctursr Now i those measurements
had been sent o. sny big shop In New
York. Phisdsipaia. Chicago or Boston
4 should have got coat that would have
ffted rae decsntly Then. too. when ve
were over there va bought lot *
pretty handkercbisfs ~ presents. They
SEEMED 20 IA immensely cheap. They
turue,i ont 20 b. 10th cheap and nasty.
for at their first visit % the lsundrY the
beautiful bright colcrs faded. and they
wera extremely miserable - look st.
re1E Trade Fos suI4oNAIREs.
Then questioned the boy, free
trade IL fr the benefit of the millionaire
and rot for the wuTkingulan' IL IL for
the bensii1 % the buyer and not the
manufactured L Is for the benefit Il
the people Who don't trouble themselves
SCOUT tbe good ~ their country, hit vhC
fhink II nothing hut spending then
money sway from it"
s'That's itr said Now zen have
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