Note A3-1-2 — Chapter III

People would, however, have to calculate on the foolish luxury which despises the home product because "it came from no great distance." World-supremacy of Paris fashions! A manufacturer of excellent German Schaumwein (foaming wine) complained to me, in 1861, that, after suffering heavy losses, he was compelled by his customers to adopt French labels. Here, a wise prince may have a favorable influence by his example. Louis XIV. himself insisted, when his mother died, that the court should use only French articles of mourning. Gee, Trade and Navigation, p. 46. Augustus I., of Saxony, always wore home cloth. (Weisse, Museum für Sächsische Geschichte, II, 2, 109.) Similar requirements by the prince of Orange (1749) of all officials: Richesse de Hollande, II, 317. Dutch executioners were dressed in calico. (Discourse of Trade, Coyn, etc., 1697.) American popular stipulations not to wear foreign articles of luxury. (Ebeling, Geschichte und Erdbeschreibung, II, 481.) Rhode Island tailors placed the working wages for home stuffs much lower than for foreign. (II, 149.)