The record-union., 1895-09-14
a MODEL PATRON OF HOME IN
DUSTRY.

In a recent editorial under the head of
"What is Home Manufacture we de-
clared that domestic production in Sacra-
mento meant articles of manufacture pro-
duced here. The Manufacturers Asso-
citation of San Francisco was organized
for the purpose of inducing the people to
patronize home manufactures. We de-
clared then and repeat now that the log
ieal outcome of the policy sought to be
established would require the people re-
siding in Los Angeles to pstronize Los
Angeles merchants and manufacturers;
those residing in Stockton to pstronize
Stockton merchants and manufacturers
and those residing in Sacramento to pat
Tonize the merchants and manufacturers
of this place. Why should q man reside
in Sacramento and buy an article in San
Francisco which is manufactured at
home? We stated then, and we repeat
now. that the logical outcome of the doc
trine of patronizing home industry would
require every citizen of every town In
the interior not to buy anything manu-
fsctured in San Francisco which could be
purchased at home We reassert and
emphasize this truth: The manufactur-
ers of San Francisco are not entitled to
patronage from any town or village of
California where the article to be pur-
chased can be made at home. Otherwise
there is nothing whatever in the policy.
In BRIEF we stated, and now repeat, that
the policy of patronizing home industry
Ia morally applicable to Los Angeles,
Stockton, Sacramento, San Jose and San
Francisco; that it does not satisfy the
full requirements of the patriotic policy
of patroniMng home industry to patron
tze San Francisco alone.
We are informed that some mem bers
of the Msnufacturers' Association have
taken umbrsge at this statement, and
one at least has demanded retracIion or
an apology at the hands of this paper.
We propose 10 consider the question Of
apology. The party who has made this
demand is an Italian, born and raised In
Italy. Not content with calling the at
tention of his associates in the Manufaot-
urers' Association to the statement of
clars with all the ferocity of q mem mber OF
the Malta society that the RECORD
UNION intended deliberate insult. We
call the attention of this taffy- pulling,
candy-peddling Dago to the fact that be
IL himself an importation, foreign pro-
duct; that he is not OF domestic produc-
tion; in other words, he is not Seeding,
but budded variety of local patriotism /;
and we propose to explain to him and
his associates in the Manufacturers Asso-
citation that ths variety is not desirable.
This imported specimen of citizenship is
q candy-maker, otherwise known as a
confectioner that he uses sugar as raw
material upon which his skill and indus
try are expended. We assert, upon ire
fragible evidence, that he uses China
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not patronize home industry.
at this point it would be well to en-
phasize the fact that the manufacturer
who demands that his neighbor shall
nuy from him simply because he is a
neiehbor, is bound by the policy he an
nounces to use no other material than
that Of domestic production. This taffy-
pulling Italian. who is so fierce In his de-
mand for retraction and apology at the
hands of this paper proves his pretense
of local patriotism to be the most arrant
hypocrisy by repudiating home pro-
duct and purchasing the sugar he uses
from China When a local producer OF
sugar presented this phase Of the case TO
the doughty and belligerent candy
puller, his reply was that he had right
to buy sugar wherever he pleased. Yet
he demands that his neighbors be denied
the right to buy candy where they please.
He regards it as an insult to the associa-
ton OF which he is q member that any
newspaper should say that patronage OF
home manufacturers meant the purchase
by citizens of articles produced in their