The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-08-02
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1890.
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Evidently the American attorneys for
free-trade have not conducted business
to the full satisfaction of their. foreign
principals. Notwithstanding the vigor-
Gus opposition the Mckinley bill has
encountered, the probability that in will
without serious modification be enacted
into law, occasions unusual anxiety
among European manufacturers.
The reiterated assurance of free
traders on this side that foreigners have
to add the tariff to their prices and pur-
chasers must pay it, however effective
for party purposes here, seems by no
means satisfactory to such foreign man.
ufacturers as have had practical expert
ence with American tariffs. British
manufacturers are especially close stu
dents of our tariff legislation, and eau
tiolsly shape their business accord
ingly.
To illustrate: Last fal the town OF
Llanelly, the center ofthe tinplate man
ufacture, took steps for increasing the
public water supply. No sooner was i t
announced tnat the Mckinley bill pro-
posed to advance the tariff on tin-plates
and render it possible to manufacture
them in this country, than a public
meeting was called, at which, after as
surances from the heads of all the large
tin-plate works that under the proposed
legislation "the time would come when
Americans would make their own tin
plates" it was decided to postpone the
work, Gin order to see what would be
the fate of the tariff bill'' before the
American Congress.
Also in the center of the cutlery man
ufacture equal anxiety is manifested. A
delegation recently waited on the may
or of Sheffield and requested an official
protest against the passage of the
Mckinley bill. The spokesman, who
claimed to voice the sentiment Of all
Northern England, significantly added,
among other arguments for the proposed
step, that "the action to be taken in
Sheffield would strengthen the hands of
the American opponents of the bill"
Just what this strengthening process was
to be, thaugh not announced at the time
may be inferred from recent state
ment in the Tin-Plate Record, that
f'every tin-plate importer in the country
has been assessed $4,000, and the Eng
lish syndicate which controls the manu-
factories and mines in Monmourhshire
and Cornwall has augmented the sum to
nearly one million dollars in order to
defeat the tin-plate clause in the
Mckinley tariff BILL"
The Sheffield mayors response was
equally suggestive in which he insisted
that British manufacturers could not az
ord 'sto stand still and see protection
measures adopted in Amortization the
time was within his memory when "the
American market found trade for one
half the population of Sheffield in max
ing cutlery now supplied in most part by
American manufactures.
It is in face of such facts as these that
intelligent mel in this country are ex-
pected to believe that the only effect Of
Protection is to add to the price of inn
ported products. It is in furtherance of
such presump tuous foreign interference
with our laws as above indicated that
American voters are asked to second
the British demand for free foreign
trade