The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, May 90. 1890.
THE TARIFF ON TIN PLATE.
Hon. Herman stump's Views.

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ed of a constituency largely engaged IN canning II
dustries, rise to protest against the increase
tariff on tin-plate. -.
economical administration OF the Government
should be raised by tax upon such manufacture
goods imported into this country but so adluSte
that no more revenue should be collected than !
actually required and so imposed tnit the neces
sares of life should bear tne least SaTaem III pr
should have free material, so as to compete for tn
markets of the world. ., A..
No one contends that an additional duty on tin
plate is required Ito provide for the common de
fence or general welfare of the country" The It'll
OF the bill under which this increase OF duty !
Venue and equaliZe duties on impOSts." The re
venue collected under the present duty of cen
per pound and paid directly into the Treasury b.
the consumer amounts to S7,OO0000, and with III
additional cent per pound proposed Will max
600 to be paid annually by the people OF tn
United States into a Treasury already OVerf10w1nl
with a surplus Illegally and unconstitutionally ex
tracted from them to foster private enterprise
And what excuse is offered for this outrage? TIT
most ultra-protectionists not justify it first, be
cause there is no tin ore being mined in this coun
try, and second, no tin-plate factory to protect
Then why not protect an industry that FURNISHES
food for 15,0OOOC0 of people and supplies the raw
material for tin-roofing, kitchen and dairy pur
poses? 1890 80. -.
needs special protecting care There are 800 fac
tories in the canning business, scattered over tne
broad area of thirty-nine States and two 1errltor
les. These concerns consume the entire produces
of 900 900 of land. The yearly output accord
ing to recent computations Is 4OC9e 200 cases o.
market value the past year, would amount tt
100000 900, of which the farmer and producer re
ceives 900. Six hundred million cans art
manufactured in Baltimore alone for fruit, vegeta
bles and oyster packing.
The labor cost in canning products is very consid
CRADLE the fruits and vegetables have TO be plant
ed. cultivated. harvested and then carefully pre-
pared before they ready for the process. Al
least 100000 people, including skilled and unskil
ed laborers are dependent upon the success of the
canneries; this includes the label manufacturers;
the box manufacturers ea-naRerS, farmers anu AM,
children directly employed IN gathering the pro-
ducts and packing the goods.
Engaged in il are the farmers, who are no longer
able to compete with the corn and wheat growers
of the West They buy largely OF the maIiIi-
facturers of fertilizers to enrich their lands The
laborers are increased fourfold, and when the
gathering and packing season commences nfty or
one hundred hands are brought from the cities to
each farm and given employment The cans and
eases are filed and the goods shipped to market.
Five cents per dozen cans is considered good
profit on a farmers pack and the Chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee says that the addi-
tional tax of cent will only add cents per dozen
to the cost and that cost to the tin can or outside
wrapper of the goods, which is thrown away. The
fact is it adds over cents to the cost Of dozen
cans, thus leaving only cent pront.
The entire destruction of this industry, which is
now langushing, is apparent to every one. 1t can
not stand this additional burden.
But we are told that il this unnecessary and
therefore Illegal addltlonai TAX Is bm2osea tn aa
manufacture tin plate in this country, and that in
a few years such syndicate or company might be
sumer, and employ $500 men in making it. What
right has the chairman of the Ways and Means
t G psooe WHAT has aV pS
cal party to inaugurate special business tor lew
favored capitalists and charge an established in.
dustry and every man, woman and child in the land
with its support? Who are petitioning them to
impose this DUTY? From the testimony taken be-
fore the committee 1t seems that only Two or tnree
persons ask for it, and one Of these, MIR: Crone-
meyer. is charged with saying that tin-plate could
be made III this country at the present rate OF duty
whole canning business, North, South, East and
West, were before them protesting against its
action.
1t is said that there is tin ore in the Black Hills
of Dakota. If so, why has it never been mined be-
fore? Why has it not been manufactured into tin
iss2 and cent per pound on the manufactured arti
Gle since, has in the course of fifteen years taken
the people. Was this not a sufficient protective
tariff to have stimulated this industry into exist
ence? And no tin-plate manufactured yet. The
distinguished gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. Butter
worth, adds that it will cost $50 900 900 more before
any company pays dividend.
With the ore at our doors, why was not the plate
why was not the ore imported from the Straits OF
Malacca and Australia. whence England $50 says
imports nnetenths of all the she manufactures.
With free ore, the American having protective
tariff of cent per pound and the Englishman
handicapped with freight charges, do you mean to
say that an Englshman can undersell the Ameri-
can in the home market? No one will believe you.
1t is an insult to an American workman. There
must be other reasons why our own ore or foreign
ore is not manufactured here. 1t is because tin
plate comes in competition with the highest protect
ed iron industries of this country, and that sheet
iron for roofing and siding pays a better profit
than tin, and hence, tin should be excluded from
that market.
The iron men control the tinplate output, and the
iron manufacturers are the largest contributors
to the Republican compalgn funds. The Republican
s 10 Ths 'a e OF sders
England have been able to send capitalists here
and buy up the pet protected industries of this
can laborers down to the starvation prices of the
old country. This is the case to such an extent
that this CONGRESS mas deemea IL OF me me- 9moss
and House should investigate the effect OH mmi-
grafton, and incidentally, on American workmen.
which is likely to follow the purchase OF American
industries by foreign capitalists.
The Englshman has control of all the tin ore in
this country and abTSad ana ne &c owns the ore G
some owned there by certain Republican politi,
cian of the State of New York. If this is So will
not this legislation advance the interest OF foreign
ers? Mr.. Mckinley, the chairman of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means seems to think it is
desirable to have the English plant locate here
This might be so under certain circumstances, but
certainly not to the detriment of millions of peo
pie interested in the canning industries.
| have not seen the farmer or laborer going be-
fore the committee asking for protection, but the
committee claim that all the legislation in the bill
will result in their benefit but intelligent farmer
or aborer can find where the relief is afforded him.
The Republican majority is engaged in keeping in
power their own political party. They have bill
pending (the Lodge bilD TO compel the ignorant
negro to vote their ticket for past services render
ed them. They endeavor to bride the soldier with
% him e e 5pf Uce
of the Union. the Constitution and equal rights to
all men. They give the manufacturing. banking,
and business interests OF the country into the hands
of capitalists for the snews of war when political
contests are at hand. One industry on capt.
tai of 81 $50 600 made dividend of s6OOOOO OO so
Mr. RuttarNy0rth How much ShOuld il have
contributed? He further says that he could
name capitalists whose profits exceed the profits
create what they called home market, by pro-
hibiting commercial intercourse with other nations,
where the supply and price of the commodities to
be sold are regulated by trusts, combinations, and
syndicates, foStered and protected by such vicious
legislation as Is contained in this ubiquitous
measure, where the free American citizen is COM
PEELED to make his purchases at such prices as are
demanded; and where the American labOrer is
obliged to sell his labor at such remuneration as Is
offered. ..,
Truly the privileged classes and protected manu-
facturers, under the present laws, have monopo-
ly and are sitting IN the temple arrayed IN purple
pockets of the handwriting, struggling masses Of
the people into their own.
But the day of reckoning is at hand. The time is
coming quietly steadily, certainly. 1t will come
with the resistessness of the mighty wind. twill
be the voice of an outraged and longsufering peO-
pie. The tables will be overturned and the tenn
pie will no longer be a "den OF thieves"
RANKIN-PEACoCK.
The town of Berlin, New Jersey, was the scene
of an interesting event on Thursday evening, May
18th. The occasion was the marriage of Lizzie s.,
daughter of James M. Peacock, ESQ.,, one of the
prominent citizens of the town, to Rev. Robert
Joshua Rankin, pastor elect of the Pine Grove
Presbyterian Church, of York Co.. Pa, and the soI
of Samuel M. Rankin, Esq.,, President of the Schoo
Board of Baltimore county.
The ceremony was performed in the First Pres
byterian Church. by the Rev. A. Lewis Hyde, as
sisted by Rev. j. s. Wilmington and Rev. w. Haye:
Moore. The attendants were Miss A. Nictoris
Rankin, sister of the groom and Rev. r. j. Stewart
pastor of the Statewide Church. Delta Pa as brides
maid and groomSman. together with Rev. Franz
Everett and Messrs. W. A. Price, w. T. Peacocl
and +. j. Sawyer as ushers. After the ceremon.
a reception was held at the home of the bride
where there was displayed large collection of use
full and costly presents. The bride and groom lief
on train for Philadelphia and will spend som
time at Ocean Grove and other places before be
ginning housekeeping in the manse of the PIN
Grove Church.
Among the large number who attended the wed
ding and reception were ). M. Rankin and J.
Wilson, of Long Green. Baltimore county, j. II
Green, of Hartford county; Miss A. V. Rankin, Mrs
A. Lewis HYDE of Bustleton, n. j., and Rev. s
Polk, of Chanceford, Pa.
Lawn Party.
Reported for The Egis.