Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-06-20
County Official Paper.
TIN PLATE AND BANANAS.

tend, ;ls Is asserted by advocates OF
high taxes, that tin plate cannot be
made in the United States. On the
contrary, Democrats know and state
on every occasion W len it is pertinent,
that tin plate can be made in America
and that the American market eau be
supplied with A .nerican tin plate.
Americans can do anything that
anybody else Gun do. We can raise
bananas right here in st. Louis and
supply the market with them, and
give employment to at least one hun
dred thousand wori1men in doing it;
and, what is more, we can do it ut a
profit. There is no question about it
at all. 1t has been done 10y wealthy
men like MI. Niedringlaus, who did
it for amusement in an experimental
way, as Mr.. Niedringhaus is now
making tin plate. They made no
money out Of it, nor is Mr.. Niedring-
haus making money out Of tin plate,
but we stake The Republics reputa-
ton that money can be made out OF
raising bananas and producing tin
plate in St. Louis, If the directions
are followed.
The first requisite for the banana
experiment would be to forbid anyone
from eating any but st. Louis bananas
If Mr.. Niedrlnghaus and his ISepubli-
can friends will touch that button we
will do the rest to build up a big
banana industry III ST. Louis.
Right around st. Louis there are at
least one hundred thousand acres oil
laDd that can be put under glass and
heated by Seam to temperature OF
eighty five degrees the year round
This will give employment to more
mon at tho start thai will ever be en-
ployed in the tin-plate industry. Then
thousands Of others would be em-
ployed at good wages in keeping up
the fires, tending the thermometers,
picking and marketing the fruit. If
no one were allowed to buy any bu,
st. Louis bananas, We could find il
rea ly market for the entire st. Loui.
product at fifty cents apiece. And ii
would be very profitable to eyerybod!
en- sod in Lno Industry.
Ine only OBJECTIONS to this plan are,
first that it would be grossly oppres-
Give and destructive of liberty; anu
second THAI 1t would increase tn,
price Of bananas and decrease the
consumption.
Botn these objections apply to tin
plato with as much force as to bananas.
We get bLhLuaS cneap now, Dccau; o
about ali they cost, except freight ana
han Iler's profits, is TO have one of the,
cheap South Americans, wLo wear
nothln much except IL SHIRT, and MT
always tlat-One of the cheap South
Americans, we SLY, with whom Mr..
Blaine is willing to let New England
have fro. lradc-cllmD tho tree AM.
pull them OF for us. So We get then,
Dix for a nickel, after freight anu
hand eT'5 lees die paid.
But tho trouble is that Mr.. Med.
riEghaur IS not making any money
out OF it. IL is too small u bushes.
foi Il man Of his large tleas. As long
us Americans are trOoin the matter o.
bananas, he is too great man IT,
have aDything.tO do with six-for-a
nickel business. Ho agrees with Mr..
Harrison that cheap bananas make
chNp men.
We were getting cheap tin plate.
when We were free in the matter OF
tin plate. 1T WAS mado in Wales,
where tho tin is and the cheap Welsh.
mon arc, Now when tho law forbds
VI IT, buy except from Niciringhaug;
when wo are lined Two dollars and
twenty cents on every hundred pound.,
of foreign TN w usC, Mr., Niedripg
haus will consent to bring tho tp
from Wales and the cheap Welshmon
to mali IL upI din tl,n ,lot,,,, il, - I,