The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-10-11
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 Protsc-
tive Policy.

Advantages OF the protective tarlH sys-
| tenn accruing to the workingmen Of this
| country is shown in report OF the Brit
| ssh 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: IN Nj
| 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 well as the
prompt filing Of orders. Chicago buyers
| 90 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 set in touch with them.
Imports increased 1905 per cent ID 1888,
as compared with 1898, and the value
E1,51S,59S from FL .3333TT .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 e.
100000. 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
I " at East Liverpool, have been great
| and there are now sixty factories, but OF
these only ten are turning out 6rst-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.
ssThe high tariff, 60 per cent, which
assures the American product of 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 a rule, coarser,
and yet underglazed patterns and float
blue have not been made successfully,
and, with the process the same, purchas-6
ers will not take the American article.
Every manufactures in the United States
procures specimens Of each new British
design, and copies are made il it is
thought likely to take in the market. The
manufacture Of china in the United
States is not vet 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 q large sale, and
the American article is said to be vastly
superior in design, cutting, shape, polish
and uster to any other, and it is claimed
that the polishing by acids has a great
superiority over the hand polishing. Bo-
hemian glass still has II good market, but
| it is found that the British glass is made
too fine, and the thin steinn,ed soblets
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 Etiinburg, has now terns
| ed to the United States, which also ex-
ports cut glass to Great Britain and Ger
| many 0
Demand for Hog and Cattle Products.
Through the Republican policy of open
| ing the mills and Of restoring confidence
| to general business, practically every
workman in the United States has be-
come able, since 1896, to have all the
! fresh meat he wants. The fact that the
| city workman can afford TO eat more
roast beef chops, hams. veal outlets.
| bacon, pork, sausages, ETC.. than he could
| in 1896 means of course that there must
be more money in the farmers business
| of raising corn to feed to cattle and hogs.
Take the many other products derived
from cattle and hogs, which had been
raised on corn, like lard glue gelatine,.
isinglass, curled hair for mattresses, etc,
brush bristles, felts, soap, gfycerine, am
monia, fertilizers, hoofs for button mate
rial, cut bones for knife handles, etc.,
| poultry foods from dried meat scraps. ~
bumen for fixing colors and finishing
leather, neatsfoot oil. etc.,-all these have
naturally more extended uses when times
are prosperous than when they are not.
For instance, lard-nearly every cracker
made is about one-eighth of it lard. In
prosperous times the families of work
men go on picnics, travel, eat oyster
stews, and do other things which great
| ly increase the consumption of crackers.
AS result of such increased demands
for the products from slaughtered hogs
and cattle, which in turn means better
demand for corn, there has been an en-
haneement in the value OF live hogs and
| cattle as follows:
Jan /. 1897. Jan. /. 1900
Cattle -. S507. 929.421 $685., 4S6, 2G0
Hogs ........ 1G6,2T2,77o 245, 725,00O
Total .sG74,2o2,191 sa35,a11, 2eo
American Railway Supplies Abroad.
A 4.000-ton steel rail contract has just
been booked in Pennsylvania for the
Cape Colony government railways. This
follows another order of 5000 tons of
rails delivered before the war began. An
other recent shipment is 5000 tons,
which have been sent to Rorneo. This
| is good commercial expansion.
Once a Deficit, Now a Balance