The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

large extent Oregon pine for deck pur-
| poses.
Why should not the hides and leather
produced upon this coast be used here to
supply our wants instead of the same GO
ing East as hides and leather and coming
back as shoes and harness? Why should
not the hoofs and horns and the residue of
cattle slaughtered here be worked up into
the various wants that they supply in
other communities, and why should not
the labor that idly watches the steamers
come and go, the trains arrive and depart,
| that haunts the stock board and pool
rooms and surround the groceries and
places of amusements, utilize its spare
hours in putting into shape, ready for the
wants and markets of our people, the ma
terials that now remain unused all about
our City and State? Even if they made
buttons out of the horns and hoofs and
sold them by the great gross to meet the
sharpest competition. They do nothing
now and the materials rot unused. The
question of canned fruits put into shape to
meet the Oriental market must be trans
ferred from tin cans to glass jars. Why
not manufacture these glass jars here?
The building of warships in San Fran
cisco has made demand for many mate
rails. For instance, cellulose, for its obdu-
rating qualities placed along the inside of
the ships to prevent leakage after shot
has penetrated ships side above the wa
ter-line, is manufactured here in San Fran
cisco as successfully as it has been made in
France. Decking, ornamental woods,
steam pumps, electric lighting, hydrau lie
steering gear and turret and gun-mounting
materials, which have been supplied by
local manufacturers.
All the implements that 60 to supply
the various wants, by little attention and
care, can be successfully supplied here, ana
if the Government of the United States in
its wisdom shall continue its past policy
and extend to our coast the privilege of
building other ships all OF these various
accomplishments will develop into fixed
trades and fixed manufactures whose wares
will supplant those that have heretofore
been brought from the East or elsewhere,
provided the same skill and facilities are
used in their production.
This most wonderful State of California
and its wonderful City of San Francisco is
to-day full OF people who are importing
heavy hardware all kinds of brass fittings,
engines, boilers, machinery of every kind
and description made in the East, which
is just as effectual in its competition to
crush out home industry as the cheap arti-
cles mentioned in the late cry raised
against the possible invasion of Japan with
her cheap products.
It is folly for US to maintain the methods
in use in the fall of '49 and spring of 80
and at the same time ask and demand the
right to the markets on the outside If
| we wish to go outside of our own bounda-
ries we must go with the same prices and
on the same conditions that other people
supply from any other community, or else
we must abandon the attempt. The first
cruiser, Charleston, was obtained in COM
petition direct with the whole country,
and while in some cases there has been
some assistance by legislature, the ma
jority of the ships built here have been OBJ
tanned in open market with competition
with the best bidders in America.