Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-01

Gen. GoFF tried 20 demonstrate last
night thar Tin plate could be made in
this country and would be under the
Mckinley tariff. He predicted that
within two years hundreds Of men,
would Doe employed in making Tin plate
in this city. He said that he knew that
there was tin iu this country because
he had seen the mines himself
Now wc shall call Gen. GoFF'> atten-
ton 90 few facts that hc will not dis
pute. first, as 20 the immediate effect
upon labor OF the passage ot the McKin-
lcy Dim doubling the tax on tin plate,
and. second, as 10 whether 10 is possible
90 establish the industry in the United
States. 80,
I'M one week after the Mckinley bin
went into effect, the cappers in the can
ming factories in indianapolis struck ON
account OF a reduction ia their wages
for Gaping cans from n cents To ;
cents. or nearly % per cent. The rea-
SON given by their employers was that
the Mckinley bill had advanced the
price OF cans and they could not afford
% pay the former rate 90 wages.
At Marlborough. Pa. a tinSmith had
contracted 10 tin roof q building When
the bin for the tin came, he found the
price extended" Co the amount Of SIS,
Ior Sl.5o box. the additional duty under
the new Tariff Thecost of tin-root was
$50 per one thousand feet more than
I it was few days before Meantime,
mo- American tin had been mined. no
American Tin factories had been eStao-
|HShcd. Further than this, after
the passage OF the Mckinley bill Welsh
manufacturers of tin plate, the men
who make the Tin plate we use came to
this country and went 90 Pittsburg 10
look over the situation and see II b
would pay them % start the proposed
industry In the United states. They
figured ON it and came Co the conclusion
that the venture would not pays that
they would make more money by stay
ing where they are and shipping their
Tin 20 this country. despite the doubled
tariff. which the consumer will have TO
paw. Aud these men know infinitely
about the industry than GoFf. TN
plate can not Doe made prohtaoly IN the
/ United states. even though two or three
prices are charged for it. Here Is what
the HgtcImcnccr said about II at the
time. -..-
The Welsh manufacturers OF TN plate
who came 90 this country with view 20
coing into the industry here nave looAe.l
I the situation over ana decided tn1l it uVes
not invite them % become American manu-
D facturcrs because 10 gives them no uneasl
I ness as Welsh manufacturers
I They laugh at the duty OF ~ cents "
pound and say that until lnc Auler,C1 (,
manufacturer is protcctcd VITA l"tin On
cents pound he VIII hot re @1lo "
L establish I'm this country TN plate industry
tbaf Win rive them any concern. Perhaps
tbev arc right. Americans who have
arrued for "a higher rate of duty think the
Welshmcn arc right
And the Intelligence argued for q
still higher rate Of duty. 1t argued for
a tariff that would make the price 50
high 10 the American consumer that II
would pay the Welsh manufacturers to
come over here and bring their factor
les and their cheap labor with them and
make tim plate here. In other words.
that few men. already rich might be
enabled 20 transplant and probably
carry on I'm this country an indus
trv which does not belong here. the
American consumer was TO De charged
probably a half dozen prices for his TIM
ware. The Mckinley dill doubles the
former exhorbitant tariff and Yet the IN
dustry cannot be started here aud. no"
they say even the Mckinley tariff must
Cen. Corr saws the tax will only be
felt by the importer, as if the importer
would not take it out Of the consumer
We need only refer to JoHN WANA-
MAKERS advertisement in the Phllade'-
phia newspapers, which says;
..Tinware is advancing i'm cost ana very