| Show how home industry discouraged brother james E hoggan of manti an e experienced weaver from dum firm fireline line scotland has for the past 12 years has been trying to establish the business of damask weaving in manti but though he has turned out table cloths claths towels etc which in beauty of pattern and durability ability will compare favorably 1 1 with any imported he be has met wit with l such poor encouragement that ike has decided to abandon the ba business siness and turn his bis attention in other directions he has expended a good deal of money la in the purchase of jacquard looms and a variety of pat terns which are quite costly and it is a pity that they should now be idle it is of course very difficult it not quite impossible to manufacture BUC such h goods on a hand loom and compete with those imported in price but this is due not less to the jact ol 01 of imported goods having been woven on power looms than to their being large ly made of shoddy and if quality were considered instead of appearance 0 only brother Hogg hoggans auls manufactures be really cheaper at the prices asked for them than imported gods it however however t the e peo people le generally really felt elt as the they should about such matters t they hey won would d give preference to the h homemade article even though it cost a little more than the imported and we trust the time is not tar far distant when such a disposition will be more manifest thau than it h has albeen as been |
