The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-12
PROTECTIVE TARIFF
APPROVED BY BRITISH.
Crockery and Glassware Manu-.
featuring Stimulated.
The British Consul at Chicago Makes a
Report TO His Government Indoors.
Ing the Republican Prot.C-
tive Policy.

/ Advantages of the protective tariff sys-
tenn accruing to the workingmen Of this
country is shown in q report of the Brit
ish vice consul at Chicago to his govern
ment, in which he deals with the china,
earthenware and glass trade of Chicago
He points out that the high tariff on
goods Of this character has enabled
Americans to start factories for the man
ufacture Of these goods, and more will
soon be built In his report the vice
consul says:
For years the British potter has been
the supplier of the American market,
and he still continues to lead, but with
the general increase of the production in
the United States, and the rapidly grow
ing competition from Japan, this lead
can only be maintained by strict watch
being kept on the market and the nature
Of the goods demanded, as we'll as the
prompt filling of orders. Chicago buyers
go over once or twice year to Europe
to buy for the local market and the large
district supplied from that city as dis
tributing center, and it should be the aim
Of producers to get i'll touch with them.
Imports increased 1905 per cent in 1899,
as compared with 1898, and the value
f1,51S,59 from fl ,337 .452.
There are no potteries in the consul
lar district Of Chicago. the chief ones
being in New Jersey and East Liverpool,
Ohio, and the output last year was t2.S
0OO, 900. The sale of American crOckery
has increased Immensely, and is only
checked by the works having all they
can do. The improvements in the last
few years in American pottery, especial
ly at East Liverpool, have been great,
and there are now sixty factories, but Of
these only ten are turning out frst-class
work, and none can equal the best for
eign products, but it must be remembered
that the demand for the more expensive
article is limited.
! THE high tariff, so per cent, which
assures the American product of a mar
ket has had the effect of increasing the
number and size of the American fac
tories. and with a rise in the price Of the
British article they will still further in
crease.
The American earthenware takes a
place near that of the English and is SUI
periOr to the coarse German earthen-
ware. and the product of most potteries
Is heavier than the former and is more
durable than the latter. The colors are
not so well put on as in the British, and
the whole article is, as rule, cOarser
and yet underglazed patterns and float
blue have not been made successfully,
and, with the process the same, purchaS-
ers will not take the American article
Every manufacturer in the United States
prOcureS specimens of each new British
design, and copies are made if it is
thought likely to take in the market The
manufacture Of china in the United
States is not yet competing with the
United Kingdom, but is improving. rap
idly.
| Cut glass, for the manufacture Of
which there are one or two small fac
tories in Chicago, has a large sale and
| the American article is said to be vastly
superior in design, cutting, shape, polish
and luster to any other, and it is claimed
/ that the polishing by acids has great
: superiority over the hand polishing BO-
| hemian glass still has good Market but
! it is found that the British glass is made
too fine, and the thin stemmed goblets
are not good for the rough treatment they
receive in the United States American
or Belgian cut glass is preferred. The
demand for glass which formerly came
from Leith and Edinburg, has now turn
ed to the United States, which also ex-
ports cut glass to Great Britain and Ger
many"