The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-22

lrou Is covered Oy coating or lead. ln
exceptional qualities it is sometimes
claimed that as much as five per cent
OF tin has been added to the lead, but at
this period Of the industry it is hardly
true that any tin is used for smelling
roof plates, nor is it needful. But the
methods of manufacturing are similar,
and factory equipped for making sheet
tin, such as is used for conversion into
utensils of domestic service, would be
fully furnished to produce roofing sheets
known i'll the trade as loaded plates, or
by name corresponding in sound to
our English word turn, but spelled
te-r-n-e. With tin protected so fearfully
these people whose money, influence and
demand had secured the protection,
must now discourage the industry or
certain patent designs and brands of |
American iron roofing would suffer from
American competition; so to further this !
design ''plg tin" or the ingots of pure
tin metal, which are absolutely essential
to genuine tin industry, was marked
for their prey. They demanded cents
pound tariff. Cheap, for tin must no
longer be a possibility, or tin plate fac
tories may start.
Now, my Republican friend, I espe-
cially desire You to follow me clearly in
what | am about to write Lay aside for
a few moments the bias Of party affiiia-
ton, preference or prejudice. It has
been settled doctrine of your party,
and the only thing it has held apart
from the flesh of our Southern dead,
which it ever ghoulishly seeks and over
which is howls in partizan shrieks that
the infant industries of the country
should be protected. The doctrine was
first conspicuously declared in 1916, by
Jno. y. Calhoun, one of the great inter
prefers Of the Constitution, and father
in the household of Dem ocracy; and not
until it was construed to mean an
enormlty, crime against comfortable
existence and menace of liberty in
favor of monopoly, was this great doc
trine bequeathed to you-your party
being properly the custodian Of what
perversely denies the rights of man, con-
tradicting thereby, the wholesom7 cn!s
of government. However, for the pur-
poses of this paper will accord to you
both the fatherhood and fostering care
Of the doctrine that infant industries
should be protected; and We are at
once alarmed by the inconsistency that
your party raised the duty in question
Que hundred and twenty per cent when
there was absolutely no infant
to draw the sustaining milk from
the brei ist which the paps of
your party yields SO coplously.
) Where was your INFANT tin plate
, industry? Surely not in America when
the higher tariff was agreed to in your
: party councils in Congress; nor when the
!, bill officia yoassed both houses nor while
! | write Nov, my Republican friend in
North Carolina, your party has but two
, planks in its plalfor protection to
, Infant Industries and Hatred OF the
) South Has il not withdrawn the first
Yes, aud gives taxation without benefi
t in this instance. Then behold the plank
I on which you stand--Hatred of the South
, and behind YOU are the tradition:
: Of Ashe, of Caswell, Of Mangum, Of
7 Iredel, of Badger, of Bragg; and al
t Algio- Saxon heroes who have wrough
K the glory of your State, and before yol
S is a destiny with the white people 0
! North Carolina; and that destiny. per
r haps, is to end somewhere 10 a fna
resting place between the waves of he
# ocean and the crowns of her hills, abov
/ which the angel Of her past everlastingl
: hovers.
/ AS have said, when the iron monop
It olists were sure that the tax would be lai'
IS on tin plate they were then satisfied
If with this protection against all fOrelgl
|, competition; and now begins the schem
is to throttle American competition; prc
e viding against the contingencies of tn
'e theory of your party that protectio
20 cheapens, as the result Of encOuragin
II American protection, and a con8equen
to rivalry between home producers. Th
Of pure tin metal of Cornwall, Devon, Sax
le ony, Bohemia, Spain, Australia and tn
N Malayan Peninsular was yet menace
Sc for it was non-taxable, being on the fre
I'd list. AS [ have shown you, early IN tn
lii wear the so called American Tin Plat
lg Association announced that it expecte
ht to get It's needful tin metal from Dak(
ar ia, mine undeveloped and which, I'll
an til the meeting of this Congress, had on
2, claimed q production of one bar, abOl
or 1876 pounds. Now, at the doors of Co
ed gress, new ally Of the men who wante
n. cheap tin for their industry appears
as the shape of delegation who wantt
ed higher tin metal This last embassy
Oh uuauOSu tGhl lliC HohoIeh AAhO w ~
ca tected asking duty Of four cents p
pound. Behold the day of shame! I
IS. Capitol building, where Webster, Cl
an and Calhoun had made the We
ac- air vital with the eloquence
,ed liberty, was turned into ma
;he ket stall. The conspirators secur
1at somewhere four ingots of tin, weigh
res about 1875 pounds each; these th
an placed in a dray which they drove
ing the capitol building. The four bars
ing tin were taken into the capitol a
ign PLACED ON THE FLOOR NEAR THE DOOR
THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. Th
the it was proclaimed to the Congress Of
of United States: 'Here is our produ
slip protect it!'' 1t is we'll known that th'
ned is no protection unless to the forei
AS price Of an article We add the tariff co
The So, providing we had tin in comm
the cial quantities in this country the Am
tax lean price would be the foreign ra
and plus the tariff of 4c. per pound. I
ling is the way Congress was arranging fo
3, as tin plate industry. The conspl
he'd tors were suddenly brought
n it a pause. There were hundreds of