Telegram-herald., 1890-10-04


'.Ine FSAsoa shy the Un Elzte nsus-
Try has nos b<e1 established u tols
eountry = pain eaeugh. IEe process
= sne "a sl-eh machinery = O. Little
uss and bzad laboF of 4 peell.zr klEd
= required Lne dipping Ct lkon saeeis
~ uaelted ia "a sslcl manner as -
coat then EropeEsy aud yet alta %
szste = a. at IA which the WslsA
have aeaaiged = p<ca.l4E aptitude
hereditary eCus are TRAINED 10 take
the place u their fathers and - DO -
generation alter generation, and rarely
snoH any dsslre 10 get nloFe agreeable
and wholesome woEk.
There Is 10 doubt that father and
son, for generations, have been engaged
N this hand work. But whyg Because
Il can not De done BY machinery No;
bat beesuse this hereditary seTf labor Is
80 cheap that there is no call for labor
saving devices. But start the work
here and, Il American ski can not
produce the machines necessary 10 turn
oat the plates, e will DC the hrst failure
chargeaole to that skill. It's strange
state OF affairs-rather Democratic
than Republican, by the wsy-if this
country must depend for Us tin plates
upon sert-labor. because il hasn't III
genuity enough 10 DO the work. The
same Democracy which contended for
slave labor in the South, would help 10
perpetuate It elsewhere. Ii vas long
thought that type-setting machines were
impIaeticable, because so much of brain
work enters into composition. but hun
dreds Of them are now successfully at
work IN the larger newspaper offices of
this country. There is no limit to the
possibilities of machine work, IN the
hands of American ingenuity, and that
party which has the most faith in
American possibilities and never says
cant" IS the one which will lead this
country into still greater victories than
ever before. The Rubicon has been
passed and the Republican party has
passed il.
Here IS another dose of Democratic
stuff:
1.-The industry being one which re-
quires peculiar hand skill, and the
work being OF an unpleasant character,
u can 10 established IN this country
only by importing workmen from
Wales. American workmen therefore
can not and will not engage in the tin
plate making. The starting of a tin
plate factory IN Pittsburg will not raise
wages or give more employment to
American labor, nor will the imported
Welsh workmen be much better patrons
OF farmers than they are now, unless,
possibly, they may cat more IN this
country than at home"
There are about $4,000 persons en-
ployed in England and Wales IN the
manufacture of tln-plates for Ameri-
can consumption, and even if that
whole army OF laborers came over here
TO do the work, it would then be still an
advantage 10 the country. They would
"be much better patrons of American
farmers than they are now" for, thank
Godl the working man does indeed
"eat more in this country" and wear
more, and earn more, and spend more,
and save more, and own more. The
few Wclshmen who do come over here
will be raised out of that hereditary
slough OF despond described by the
State Democrat, and made men after
the image of their Maker. That Is one
of the missions of America, and nobly
is she fulfilling it under Republican ad-
ministration. 1.-THE idea that thi,
country Is dependent upon Wales, Oh
any other country. for laborers with
brains enough to make tin-plates is,
like most Democratic arguments, an in
suit to the intelligence of the American
people. And further that paper says
"The result of a heavy tax on tin
| plate will be the importation of work
| men from Wales and the earning of ble
| profits by the Pittsburg syndicate, while
| American wOrkmen Will feel the change
| IN the shape of the increased cost OF the
! dinner pail, the milk can and the coffee
pot. Users of canned goods and fruit:
| Will be levied on and the use and pro
| duction of these supplies will be dis
Couraged. RoOfers and ali persons who
use tin IN any form will feel the extra
tax. The only persons benefited vii
be those in the Plttsburg syndicate"
The article would not have been truly
Democratic If it had not appealed tC
/ prejudice. If it is a good argument
against making tin plates, that som,
big firm or corporation is going tC
make big profits, then the same srgu
ment holds good against manufactur
| ing anything in tins country, or run
ning railroads, or telegraph lines. OF
dong anything else except the Demo
cratic policy of buying from England
And one would suppose, from the argu
| ment of the Democrat, that our work
ingmen stc tin-pails, miik-cans snC
cofree-pots three times a day. worr
/ them on their heads, hands and fee
and slept under them at night, beside
/ taking them for medicine, so grea
would the consumption of them have
to be IN an ordinary family to wsrran
any alarm At the increased cost. Bu
why increased COST America never ye
set herself At work 20 manufactur,
/ anything that she did not reduce tin
cost, except sugar And even If ther'
{ were httle increased cost, We behev'
thcre fs natriotlsrn enough In the work