The Forrest City times., 1891-07-31
Mckinley

bul btcSt HSuItS uO uOt LII illk Out tiit full protection of the Mckinley law. The customs administrative law, which went into effect on the lst of last Au- gust assesses the same duty on the boxes or crates containing goods as on the goods themselves. The packing makes a considerable item of expense in handling glassware. Furthermore, the same law requires that no allowance be made for articles broken in transit, un- less the broken articles amount to 10 per cent of the shipment. in which case the Government takes the broken or damaged articles, sells them at auction, and pockets the proceeds. In the ship ment of glass and glassware consider able portion is always broken; and the losses thus entailed form an additional protection to the domestic manufacturer over and above the high rate of duty in the Mckinley law.
 The additional protection in these items amounts to at least 10 per cent, making the full protection granted the trust by Mckinley about 70 per cent.
 There was no need whatever for n- creasng the duties, since our imports amount to only fifty or sixty thousand dollars worth per annum, while We ex- port at least ten times as much. In the report of MeXico's imports for 1889 1t is seen that that country took from LIS S243, 900 of glass and china, from Ger many Sl64,o00 from France S159, 1000, and from England only Sl6,o00 If we can compete so successfully in Mexico. even without reciprocity, with the "pauper- made' glassware of Europe. there is clearly no need for Mckinley's S high duties to protect our n manufacturers in the home market Even the New York Tribune admits that glassware "can be produced in the United States as cheaply as in Europe"
 It could have been easily foreseen that Mckinley's high duties would give rise to a trust; and such has been the result. After much preliminary work during the past six months the glassware men have at last gotten their trust fairly launched. The high tariff New York Tribune which holds the queer view that the Mckinley law is "a trust-killing tar If. men and brethren" has recently printed the following dispatch:
 GLASS MANUFACTURERS COMBINE.
 PITTsBuRG. July 15.-Ata meeting of the table glassware manufacturers of Pennsyl- vania, Ohio and West Virginia in this city to-day. the plants were consolidated and m assoc alton formed under the name of the United States Glass Company. D. c, Ripley, of this city, was elected President The company comprises eighteen frms with n capital of xl,000. 900. The object of the combination is said to be to systematic and to harmoniKe the workings of the sev- eral plants and to secure such economics in cost as may result from consolidation of interests The headquarters will be, in Pittsbarg.
 The report that the price of glass fruit-jsr has been recently raised by Il trust is evidence of what this infant combine can do in the way of bleeding the masses of our people Where is the family which does not use glassware? Nearly every table in the land has its tnmbers, goblets. butter dishes salt eel lars, and numerous other articles of glassware. Poor, indeed, Is the house wife who is not concerned in this Mckin- ley tariff trust.
 The organization of this trust calls attention once moro to the fact that trusts have been springing up like mush- rooms in wet summer ever since Me Kinley's high tariff went into operation last October Mckinleyism and trusts % hand in hand