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Show collection of old boards, ho pays , the bill and keeps tho packer, and neither the manufacturer nor the packer change This may, perhaps, account for the- fact that our foreign trado does not show that consistent development develop-ment which It should." m AMERICAN MISTAKES. ' A Chicago business man has lailsd to be possessed of a high opinion ot our consular service. "We must admit that our consular service has astigmatism of a highly developed character in both eyes and sometimes, blinks," he said. "Our consular reports are very irngamcn-tary irngamcn-tary and are written often by men who write of the picturesque and the interesting rather than or the commercially com-mercially available. Consular service today Is better than it has ever been, but It is the most broken down ad neglected sales force that was ever turned loose. This, too, in spite ol the intelligent, energetic and loiig continued efforts of some ot the leading lead-ing business men In the United States In which Chlcagoans have been particularly par-ticularly prominent. "Manufacturers In America havo been industrial reformers. They have tried to make the feet of all the world fit our shoes. They have tried o make the backs of all the world wear our coats. Thev have allowed neither the feet nor I he backs to sugROtst any modification in the weight, color, shape or method of manufacturing what will be useful and pleasant to them, but have Insisted upon their wearing them as made for the consumption con-sumption of American feet and American Ameri-can backs. Our manufacturers aro non-conformlsts. They believe that our way is right. They believe that the American tato is much better than any othor taste ever developed on the face of tho foot stool. Tney believe It Is ethically right ror the soft-tongued Latin lu South America I to wear the same heavy shoes that prevents solo blisters on Michigan avenue. "Some ot our continental frleotU have a more elastic business theology and have condescended to change the cole canes to suit the owner of the South American foot. Our American manufacturers and merchants selling to the. foreign trade Is also most loyal to his packer. If tho packlug aud ship-ping ship-ping department insists on shipping stuff to South America aud Soutn Africa In the tame manner that thoy would to Deadwood, Omaha or HJvun-ston, HJvun-ston, the manufacturer O. K.'s the proposition and while ho winces aud has to pay an exorbitant duty iu some foreign clime upon a flne and generous J |