THE Chames Advertiser. Favour to none; fear of none; justice to all. MONDAY, AUGUST 12,1895. MADE IN GERMANY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8199, 12 August 1895, Page 2

THE Chames Advertiser. Favour to none; fear of none; justice to all. MONDAY, AUGUST 12,1895. MADE IN GERMANY.

i'TiiK poople of Australasia have secured to themselves in the eight hour day, which is the custom almost universally, a boon of which they should bo proud, and of which they should take great care. But in their action, or want of action towards their English fellows who are anxious to obtain the samo boon, they appear to us to bo strangely incon-' sisfeufc. Were eight hours a day recognised throughout tho world as a day's work, the English worker could j hold his own against all others, but such is far from being the case. In somo parts of Amoricu the railway employees are agitating for a \i hour day, so we may guess what their actual hours of labour are. And in the whole of America workers of all kiuds aro expected to work,at least ten hours per day. On the continent of Europe, in Germany, Belgium, and France, England's chief mechanical rivals, ten and twelve hours per day are reckoned a day's work. This being so, it is easy to understand why the legend ' Mado in Germany' is sewn so often on goods offered for sale in this aud neighbouring countries,

Wo think that if there was any feeling of patriotism in the colonial breast, it should appear in our trade relationship with our jtnlm. If those who uso tho goods mentioned would insist on having English or Colonial manufactured articles, importers would be compelled to supply them, and the result would bo benelicial to the trade of our own countrymen, a better article would iu most cases be obtained, and the cost would bo the same. Because it is' a fact that these foreign made goods, while they are obtained at a slightly lower prico by tho retailer aro yet sold to the consumer at about the price for which English-made goods would be sold. iro we say that our own countrymen havi ig themselves obtained the coveted oight hour day, aro acting inconsistently when they buy without protest, often without thought, the product of foreign countries, and by consequence neglect those produced by their own relations, (for without doubt all Anglo-Saxons aro relations) while the benefit, if there be any, is reaped by tho middle man. Wo re~ member hearing of one caso in which the whole contents of a certain store bore the legond ' Made in Germany,' with (bo exception of tho attendant, who wuk mado in Scotland. Considerable congratulation has been expressed in certain quarters, been use the Princess of Wa'ns has ordered somo Now Zealand mado drosses. This action on the part of H.R. Highness is entirely consistent with many other actions of hor life, for she has always sought to oucourago

British industries, and iu giving this order to our woollen factories she has shown that her sympathies embrace the • whole- empire. Let us then whilst wo admire the spirit shown in this act of our future Queen, show that wo are worthy of such a ruler by insisting on our grocers, our ironmongers, and our soft goods merchants supplying us with goods raanufaded by men and women of our own race, and let us do all we can to show that we are worthy sons of worthy sires. In thus acting we shall be doing more to advance the causo of Federation than by oceans of talk for we shall show by practical example, the truth of the words made famous Jbv the American Admiral, " Blood is thicker than water,"