The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-03-06


NJ lsssi En~css - the Mckinlsy Issll -
THAT Industry
The New York Tribune tries 20 draw
comfort from the recent advance i'm the
price OF tin plate. which II seems ID
look on n one 81 the bencf irent results
Of the Mckinley tariff. II says al o:
The fact that many establishments have
undertaken business IN earnest. have provided
machinery and trained labor and have already
Invested large sums In the undertaking would
slnsce with mos, persons Of sense 20 prove
that the manufacture was expected % yield
proit
There Is an unpleasant haziness about
these statements. Who have started
these may works? Where have they
started them and when; How much
capital have they invested in them
Ana this is something which no al
legged manufacturer Of American tin
plate has seen tit TO state how much
has the tin plate made this side of the
water cost the makers? Isit profitable
for them 70 make il At the present duty
Of ceat pound and present prices. Or
are they losing money now, expecting
- make up their losses when July
comes and the duty is advanced 70 2.2
cents pound? Nothing would be
more interesting than such statistics
showing what the steel plate costs.
what the tin costs and what American
labor gets.
The new duty does not 60 into force
till July. but the price Of tin plate has
gone up already. Let il Be admitted
Al. - - -
Kinley bill Who is benefited thereby?
The American consumer? Certainly
not. for il has raised the price Of many
articles he uses and thus has hurt him.
Has II helped American labor? No
Where are the statistics TO show that IL
has been aided? How many men are
working in American tin plate mills
and what wages are they getting? Why
Il no information vouchsafcd on these
points? Are the mill bosses benefited?
No: there is nothing 10 show that they
have gone into the business The
Mckinley bill furnishes them with bet
ter ways of making more money
There was dispatch the other day
! 20 the effect that certain Pitts
burgh people are going to start a
sheet steel and tin plate mill at Joliet
| Perhaps they will But. while there
have been many such dispatches since
last September. the mills do not seem
| 10 materialize. and there do not seem
1 to be any manufacturers taking adj
vantage Of the present high price Of
I tin plate. The House passed the Nc
| Kinley bill last Nav. or nine months
ago. Every one knew that the Senate
would pass it. Therefore no man
risled any thing by going ahead at
| once and beginning the manufacture OF
tin plate But why were they so slow
about it, Why did not those Pitts
burgh men, who. according TO Con-
gresham Bayne, were just aching for
a chance to capture the American tin
plate market. jump in last June and do
| so? This singular delay. this unpatriot-
ic hanging back. has not been explained
by the New York Tribune or any other
papers which favor the extra high duty
on tin plate.
While speaking Of this subject Il may
NOT be amiss to ask what has become OF
the Black Hills tin output. about which
50 much was said last summer Senator
Moody made some glowing prophetic:
20 the effect that il the tin
plate duty were raised immense
manufactures would spring up 81
once in the Black Hills, where al
the tin plate Of the country would b.
MADE His constituents do not seem 4
take much stock in his talk. for the,
are evidently in no hurry TO re-elec'
him They do not fancy having 70 pay
more for their tinware 10 boom imagin
airy factories and tin mines which d.
not materialize.
The whole business was humbug
Consumers are taxed and nobody i
benefited The only practical resul
thus far Is the ousting from seats which
they might have kept otherwise Of !
large number Of Republican Congress
men. Chicago Tribune tRep)