The sun., 1910-09-02
TAXES high? CONSIDER JAPAN
BER PEOPLE THEERFCL WHILE
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Laaahlin. naek FTsm NsVla Tsag
Cslsalnl tss,eruIsat ~ a. Es-st In
Java Nsw oas East@ ate the Iisa

Homer tAughln who wAs q ~lo-- fri-ud
and adviser - Pr~sid~nt Mckinl~y and
who founded biE pottery w"rk- IN Onto
accumulated forum. ant then vent
/ out 90 ths Pacific coast about tvelv~ v~aFs
ago ~ ENJOY ~. reached N-~ York y-s-
tsrdAy from q tour ~ 'hs world and New
England. vhich alto geth-r o.-ruIt~,i ah",ir
! a year
/ Mr. iAughin who wa- accompanied
. ~ ht- daughter Miss Gw-ndolen Laugh
/ lin. took In Honolulu. Japan. Cor~a.
I nina. Java. Ceylon. india. Egvp'
| Palestine and much oi Europ~. staving
a. long a. h. uk~d whsn@ver he found =
| place unusually interesting
The only exciting experience NJ 'hs
whole trip zaid Mr. tAukhlin Yesterday
Z was when We war. hit by a typhoon
| In the China Sea and kept getting II for
/ four dAy. The ship. the Princess Alica.
was driven po mil~c ont of her course.
We had 4 fearful time.
We made = long stay In Japan. II
~as nv observation that th" Japanese
are a very busy p~opl" who arr making
Tho most 20 their opportunities. though
they are suffering in a financial wav from
IN. strain IT the war The burden onksNp-
I ing up'and improving their army and navy
- very heavy Andi taxation - more than
~ p~r cent. Everybody down % m"
jinrikishA hoy. has To nav They are ~
remarkable people who can make living
IN country practically no larger than
california and In which only ~ per cent
~ tho land can 10 used A. all They are
now beginning to harness up the water
from the hills on a great scale
We found them cheerful and polite
and did not meet with a single rebuh
I was impressed by what il t--ing done
In ManchuriA That country. ~ least
what I saw Of IL. IL something like our
Northwestern prairie country. II has a
good soil and produces cereals splendidly
Last wear oOO 600 tons of heaHs were
exported. half Of which went 10 Japan.
There is no doubt that Japan has
done a great deal To- rehabilitats Corea
II - the poorest. most God forsakrn
country ! was ever in The habit ~ caste
seems 20 prevent its making any hsadWay
az all on itS own initiative" heard talk
81 disaheCtion w-en ] was there. but
there were no signs OF Il on the surface
! cannot help hut think ~ was necessary
for some outside country t1 take the
management Of the ancient kingdom
Java ~ an example to the world of sue
fe~AIAA Na1lfIlhl government IlFTF Nv
~. ON On people making living on an
island only a little over Ho miles long,
and narrow You don't sss a sign Of DIS
trees anywhere In China ! saw many
signs Of the awakening We hear about
For instance. IN PekIn many thorough
fares are being macadamized and whole
streets are being torn down and widened
The number Of men who have cut oh the ,
queue - remarkable ! saw a great deal
of tho Chinese army IN ManChuria The F.
WarVna DIM FNl IN faFHF
coming from Mukden 10 Tientsin. and I
A. every station troops were drawn up
in lins tor him To- review
In India there - uninlstakably good
deal 81 unrest especially among the I
Bengalis in the calcutta diatrict and I
among the people IN the foothills of the I
Himalayas. which manifeSis itself IN oc-
casional bomb throwing and assas-ina-
ton
-One could not help being struck With 4
the difference between the Dutch and the ,
English method Of dealing With deepen
dencies ia the East A. present in India ,
there seems TO he a lack OF government
We are getting the same problem in tho (
Philippines where ws have IN dea! with I
races that have another point "t view
from ours But great work ~ being 1
donSln India IN the interest of the natives
Irrigation projects are being worked out I!
IN the districts subject To droukht and /
famine
Mr.. Iaughlin says he was the first |
American pottery manufacturer to sell
his goods under an American trademark
He came tn do it a. the result of banter.
Before the Centennial he said. -there /
was a strong prejudice among Americans !
against American made pottery People |
would not buy u unlees they got the idra ,
that ~ was made In England For that /
reason manufacturers had 10 stamp their
goods with a British hon or the British
opat 81 arms.
We were exhibiting at the centennial
in Philadelphia. Nv brother. who was
my partner. met some Engli~hmen who
wrr~ looking over our exhibit and who
patronizingly told him that u was very
good for the little experience "" had had
Thus nettled my brother. who said that
We were making better goods than they
we're in England He mentioned one
part ocular English brand that was
recognized A. a standard over here and
offered 10 bet that competent judges
would decide that a sample taken az
random would be better than a similar
sample taken from the British exhibit
He got the three judges together one
Of whom was the New York agent Of the
English firm mentioned. and after com.
raring the samples they agreed that ours
was better Then upon my brothers
invitation they picked ont the hest ing
lish samples they could find and com
pared them and pronounced ours better
in colnring. clearne-s and every other
quality
One ~ the Englishmen made the
snoering remark that even u our pottery
was better We had 10 put n British trade
mark on ~ 90 sell u I said believed !
could sell American pottery with an
American trademark and that I was GO
ing 10 pat such on rho market bearing
n British lion lying on his hack with an
American eagle tearing out his vitals
az course u was in had taste. hut I was
angry
The result the first year was No helm
10 business hut after that the idea caught
on. Other manufacturers followed suit
and for twenty-fiv years the American
pottery manufacturer has hern holding
his own. though u was not until twelve
or fifteen years ago that the practice ~
putting on British cnata % arms az the
request ~ dealers who would insist upon
having them was generally discontinued.