100 YEARS AGO
Friday, Dec. 16, 1910
Several times in the past, this journal has raised a note of warning against the suicidal practice of a section of exporters and manufacturers in our sister city to the south, Osaka, who have been sending abroad imitations of foreign articles and goods of inferior quality in general — so far, however, in vain, we regret to say.
But we are now glad to notice that the businessmen of Osaka are waking up to the mistaken practice they have hitherto pursued. As reported in our last issue, they find the Chinese market for their exports all but lost to them for no other reason than that they are being driven out by goods of better quality than theirs. This is a salutary discovery. A market may be captured with merchandise which has nothing to recommend it but cheapness; but that will be only for a time and never permanently.