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Show AHEIUCAX F0TTEKY IXDUSTRV. The earthen ware luduttry of the Dulled States spruug up In lS60and has grown to be one of our most valuable manufacturing Interest, representing eight or nine millions of capital and the employment of ten or twelve thousand hand?, with unbounded possibilities of develop-meuL develop-meuL Since American wares have come upon the market, prices have fallen 50 per cent, and the growth of the Industry has been phenomenal. phenome-nal. There la no reason why we cannot supply irrthe near future the greater lartof thedomestlcdem&nds which are now supplied from abroad, If tlib vigorous Industry be not stunted by a reduction in the tariff. Senator Frye says: "I a 1 SGO potU-ry carried a revenue duty of 21 Jrceut. The business waa insigniScsiit, tlie wages low; only two or three,, thousand people employed. The Morrill taritl act levied a duty 6f 40" jier cent, sulo-quently sulo-quently lucrend to 55, and today neuiake potlrryla eery state in the Union except Florida, employ an imminse force of help, pay agi higher than In 1S50, and yet as much can be bought nowfbr$2.o0ascould lw bought tlwrf for $4." General Tyndall, a high English authority, In siaklDK of American" enterprise in tills line, saiJ: "The prices of their wares are very low In relation to the cost of labor In thu Va ted States. The processes employed are of the most lmproed kind, and the potteries are well arranged, ar-ranged, veiy orderly and highly commendable. All tho materials ued arcfcaiMd-IuHliij.United State.. Of course England Is still ahead, but the giant strides which the tra'le Is now taking In ll'-' United States are not thought lightly of here. The uacaid InLnglandareverylow, far more than 50 per cent. lower than in the United States. J-a-l jearduriug a strike the employes published u hat Uiey claimed was a true table, or the aM-rage net earnings earn-ings per man per,v.iik, with all deductions de-ductions fur attendance and other purpose. The table showed the average earnings of llritish workmen work-men to In-about J5.C2 ier eek. "The Kugllsh workman, ho ever, claliueil tliat thu reference to the KuglLh was too high and a careful statement was .luruUhed Consul I jn In behalf of .the men showing that the avcragejearnings per week was only one pound, eleven shillings, shil-lings, or about $7.50 vr week; a3alust$lS..50inthe United States." The Hon. Eobert I'. Porter, at present superintendent of the census, made a personal investigation investiga-tion of the potteries of Hanley, England, seme j ears ago and reared rear-ed ai follows; "On all sides of the uate ground are little streets, w ith old and inL-er-aie liou-ts in which the pottirs live. We walked up and down scons of sthee streets in all the towns and found them much the same. Thu wages paid the gnat lailk of the totters only jienult of their laying frurn 2s. Cd. to Ss. (75 cents a w eek houe rent. They live in one loom in which washing and Irouinit, fating, and not Infrequently Infrequent-ly ski plug are done." |