The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-01-02
A TIN PLATE INDUSTRY.

Mr.. Roger @. Mills, in one of his
speeches, says:
''Not pound of tin plate is manufac-
tured in the United States. To
put tin plate on the free list does not de-
prive any man in this country of employ
ment. 1t does not take dollar of profit
from any manufacturer 10 the country.
In order to meet the condition of the
Treasury, which is so alarming, we have
taken off the tariff on tin plate. Gentle
men on the other side will say that is
Free Trade. If that is Free Trade, make
the most of it.
1t is estimated by competent aud we'll
informed authorities that to manufacture
the amount of tin plate imported Into the
United States last year would require the
erection of sixty eight large works of FIVE
train of rolls each. The cost of this work
would be $4,000, 600, of which 90 per
cent. would represent wages paid to
labor. Mr.. J. J. sullivan, President of
the Iowa Miners Association, in com.
menting on the above, says: CHOSE
mills, when built, would employ "a, 600
American workmen at wages not less
than $12, 900, 0G0 year In raw material,
abundance of which can be found here at
home, those mills would consume $40, 900
tons of iron ore, whose digging would EN-
ploy 2,0G0 ore miners at not less than a
million dollars in wages; 1900, 900 tons
of coal and coke, which would employ
5000 coal miners at 81, $50. 600 wages;
360, 1000 tons of pig iron, which would en-
ploy thousand puddlers, heaters, help
ers, rollers, and aborers around the roll
ing mills; 100000 tons of limestone, en-
ploying hundreds of quarry 5, 200, 900
pounds of lead, employing hundreds of
lead miners and smelter men; %, 900, 900
pounds of tin, which would employ thou.
sands of workmen developing the great
tin mines of the Black Hills; 12, 000, 600
feet of lumber, employing American lum.
5ernien and carpenters by the hundred;
35, 000, 900 pounds Of sulphuric acid, 49,
900, 900 pounds OF tallow and palm oil,
and, in addition to all these, large guam
titles of fire brick, fire clay, oil and other
lubricants, hemp, and so on ad fnitum.
Thus, you see, the tin plate industry,
with its dependent industries, would en-
ploy at least so, 600 w1rkmen, with pay
roll of not less than S25, 600 900 annually,
which sum would be put in circulation in
the United States, instead of contracting
our currency by sending it abroad for
something which we could and would
PAOdhIS putpbifIb tbC 0ONbIuulbub
would give us the necessary encourage
meat instead ofetssrowing water on q
drowned rat by putting the article on the
free list after inst killing the industry by
low tariff.
TO go further: The $4,000 workmen
would represent population of quar-
ter of a million of people. To minister
to their wants would require the services
of thousands of carpenters, bricklayers,
masons, blacksmiths and painters to
build them homes; tailors, miliners,
dressmakefs and dry goods merchants
to clothe them; butchers, bakers and mer-
chants to feed them; shoemakers to shoe
them; BARRIERS to shave them, teachers to
enlighten them, and undertakers to bury
them. A thousand and one avenues of
employment would open up for the EN-
ployment of willing hands till the popu-
lation which would find work and liv-
ing here upon this one industry would
swell to at least million of people, who
would constitute one of the best mar kets
in the world for American beef and pota-
toes, aud wheat, and WOOL and cotton,
aud iron. and coal, and butter, aud eggs,
and furniture, and glass, and shoes, and
lumber, aud an endless variety of Ameri-
can products that cannot be mixed or
shaken up so as TO diminish their impor.
lance. y Tariff League Bulletin.