The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-06
A TARIFF SUGGESTION.

The Mckinley bill has become law and
the working classes of this country are
going to show their profound apprecia-
ton OF protective tariff by contribut-
ing some Is per cent more than formerly
to the already inordinate gains of east
ern capitalists and manufacturers. These
men are the bottle holders of the repub-
lican party. In return for it's complac-
ency to their interests. they stand ready
to part with the 'needful" to bolster up
its campaign necessities.
Among other results we are going to
have domestic tin-plate industry.
Hitherto we have imported what we
needed, and the working classes OF this
country have been paying over seven
millions Of dollars Of duty for the priv
ilege. They are the chief users of arti-
cles made from tin-plate. Just how that
payment benefited them, or how it pro-
tected a non existent industry, is point
hard to understand. But, at any rate,
the capitalist is going to devote his at
tention to tin-plate. 1t will be nothing
but costly experiment for little while,
Of course, but then he does not pay for
it. The long suffering public does that,
and he gets the experience. He will pro-
vide employment for a large number OF
workmen and that must be matter of
congratulation. He is not going to pay
them, though. 1t would never do for
him to risk his money in that foolish
way. He knows a trick worth two of
that, SO long as republican speakers can
gull their victims. He is to have bonus
of more than sixteen million dollars
year to help,him out in his benevolent
scheme of establishing a new in
dustry. 1t will be strange if
he cannot pay the dear workmen
out of that sum and save a tritie for
himself. There certainly is another
plan, but he has no affection for it. 1t
would put nothing in his pocket, and
then, what would become of republican
campaign funds? The same public
might import their tin-plate free of all
duty. That would save them this sum
of sixteen millions. The money is not
needed for revenue, only for yachts and
coaching tours for rich mon. The en-
ployes, that were to be. need not lose
their wages. The public could still sup
ply the money, but they might give it to
their fellow workingmen. They could,
with this sum, select 10000 of the future
tin-platers, employ them at 5000 per
annum to do nothing, and still save four
million dollars by the transaction. If
any OF the workmen chosen made any
violent objections, it might be possible
to fill their places.
Thomas Henry Carter voted for this
bill. The voter who casts vote for him
in Montana this fall, votes for the per-
petuation of just such iniquitous meth
dds as this We have exposed. He votes
for unjust determinations between the
sections OF our common country. He
votes for the ruin of the farmer and the
oppression of the laboring man. He
ranges himself on the side of the CAPT
talists who have no use for workingmen
except as means of supply. The labor
ing man who votes for Carter Is false to
the interests of his class. The farmer who
does 60 is blind to all the signs Of the
times. Carter is entitled fairly and
squarely to the votes of eastern money!
bags; it he has at last made up his mind
that he really wants to sit again in con-
gress, let him wire them to that effect.
Such men as he are useful agents and
orght to be provided with seats in the
states they represent. Carter's record
In congress is not that of Montan,an
with the interests of the people of this
great state at heart. There are wires on
him from every quarter but this. The
man for Montana is William w. Dixon.