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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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bore the loss. It is not very long since our manufacturers wTere accustomedto make up certain goods after foreign patterns, and put foreignlabels upon them, so that they were sold, at least to the con-sumers, as imported goods. In the case of woollen, cotton, andsilken goods, it is believed that this semi-fraudulent practicehas gone almost entirely out of use. Manufacturers have foundthat they can produce nearly all of these goods of a quality no-wise inferior to those of their European competitors; and theyare setting themselves strenuously at work, and with amplesuccess, to establish a reputation for their own goods undertheir own special trade-marks. If a customer fancies that Brit-ish or French cloths must of necessity be better than corre-sponding American ones he can gratify his fancy by paying anadvanced price. But the chances are more than even that thegoods have nothing imported about them except the label, andthat is most usually affixed, not by the manufacturer, but by the
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A SOUVENIR.See Note 23. SUCCESS IN MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURES. 347 not over-scrupulous tradesman. So superior, indeed, are someof our standard cotton goods to those of the British manufact-urers that large quantities of these goods, woven at Manches-ter, are exported to the East, stamped as the product of NewEngland mills. Sardines have long been put up on the coast of Maine, butuntil quite recently no one ever saw an American sardine forsale. The boxes all bore a French label. This might be ex-plained so long as it was supposed that olive-oil only was fitfor making sardines, and that olive-oil only was used in Francefor this purpose. But the case was changed when it becameknown that our cotton-seed oil was largely substituted for olive-oil in Europe. It is not altogether certain that the one is notas good as the other for this purpose, but it is clear that thecotton-seed oil is not converted into olive-oil by a voyage acrossthe Atlantic and back. American sardine-packers are begin-ni

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