Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-11-13 | Page 10 | Made in America - or U. S. A. ?

MADE IN AMERICA AMERICA- OR U U. S. S A. A In a circular letter the tho phia Commercial l Museum um has these apposite remarks in re regard ard to the thel l reasons SOU wh why Made iu in 17 IT S. S A. A ought to be bethe the national trade mark r Assuming that it 1 is iv desirable and necessary to adopt sumo s mo national nation nation- I al mark of foreign trade trade and and wo Rodo wp Ro do not admit the force of either cither proposition proposition Made Made In America is not the proper slogan This conviction has bas not been boen formed overnight it is tho the result of or eighteen years of ot clo close c contact with the mercantile class in all Ill countries of the tho Americas Without With out provocation in the tho past and with provocation in tho the present we ve havet have I repeatedly warned manufacturers inthis inthis in la lathis this country of tho the trade trado they might not obtain if they persisted in ill hurting the pride prid of or possible Latin American customers through the ostentatious ostentatious ostentatious os os- adoption of the term America rs as exclusive property As individuals and as a nation we have the undoubted right to designate designate des des- ignate ourselves I Americans Americans' and America but is ia it policy to Tide ride I roughshod rough shod over the sensitiveness of neighboring individuals and nations I who claim and can prove an equal right to the same name designations It is isone Ione I Ione one thing to have the right but quite another tiling thing to insist on ou exercising ex ex- that right to the discomfort of or others t