Daily Republican., 1890-06-07
The DailyRepublican
clasI, Of Free Traders.

Tho Iron and Steel Journal of Lon
don, free trade paper OF course, seems
to have the proper idea OF the effect
the Mckinley Tariff bill will have
upon the much discussed tin plale III
dustry. II says:
'She most important item in the new
schedule Of the American Tariff bill is
that affecting tin plates. ii this Ia car
ried on the occupation Of three-ioniths
OF those engaged In this country In the
tin plate trade will be gone, and Eng
lish employers ard their workmen, II
they continue In the tin pate business,
must employ their capital ard labor on
the other side OF the Atlantic"
What have our Tree trade advocates
got to say to this on this side Of the
Atlantic2 We have been saying all
along that our ireelraders, misnamed
Democrats, 10 deceive the people were
in perfect accord with the ireetraders
OF England. and sufficient acknowl.
edgment oi the truth Of what we cay
is the fac, that no denial of the charge
has been made. II pieases our Tree trade
friends much more to tell the working.
men that the proposed duty on tin
plates endangers their dinner pals;
that their canned fruit and vegetables
will be enormously increased in price;
that tin ware in general will be pu,
beyond their reach; that they are
being constantly ground down by a
monstrous monopoly aud long train
OF other nonsense not worth the time
it takes TO read it.
II they would only turn around and
tell the other side they would be con
eIring q real benefit ON the commu-
nifty, but they will not do this. Why
do they not tel the w0rkingnen that
the duty on their dinner kettle would
be about cent u year, and that the
duty on all the tinware they use would
not amount 10 nickel yearf Why
do they not tell them that for this
small tax great industry would
spring up at home employing many
thousand workmen. and that iinwarr
would in short time be cheaper than
ever before. 1t will do no harm 10
tell this. Why does not the Every
Eyening tell its British fEec trade
pIMlends hat they are u,iseaken; that
the Mckinley Tsyif biLS to oppress
the working people Of America not to
benefit them; that ii is TO rob them of
their hard earned wages; that the
Democratic party OF the United States
does not wish TO interfere with English
Industries; that it wants the English
people 10 keep on manufacturing cheap
goods by cheap labor and sending them
here under what they Can be meuu-
iactured at home; that the only desire
Of the Democratic party, the friend OF
English free traders in this tin plate
matter was that things should be
equalized by giving the workinqmen
OF this country the benefit of cent q
gear on the price OF dinner kettle,
but that British workmen should make
The kettle.
Without levity. however, the free
traders on both sides OF the Atlantic
should have a more proper under
standing. They do not jlbe together
we'll. The Mckinley bill wants TO
bring the tin plate industry to this
country. The Democrats oppose it on
that account aud the British Tree
traders oppose it on that account
Thus far they are in perfect accord,
but they clash when they come down
10 estimate the ultimate result. The
British free trade organs say that it
viii break up the industry in England
If the Mckinley bill passes The
American free trade organs say tina,
II will oppress the worklngmen OF this
country II it passes. What are we te
think about these arguments? VIZ
would suggest a Democratic free trade
arbitration committee TO reconcile tn,
Siseh between the Tree trade papers o
Doth countries that American working
men calling themselves Democrat
need no longer be deceived.