The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-20

IAE SALT LAX.
or calling. The people of Wales have here
tofore been willing to sell Us, laid down In
Baltimore, tinplate of the commonest sort
for cents pound, boxed, cut and freight
paid. The government has heretofore ar
rested that tin in the custom house and i'm
posed tax of l cent per pound on it. max
ing 1t cost the first purchaser cents
pound; 3 cents worth of tin, cents worth
of government tax, cents to the purchaser,
and that l cent of tax carrying into the
treasury of the United States SS,000,00O.
''Some of our friends who are always
looking out for opportunities to tax the
people of this country saw if they could
get the opportunity Of selling tin plate to
the American people there would be
almost incalculable profit in it, so they
came to Washington and and said to Major
Mckinley and the gentlemen associated
with him In the preparation OF the last
tariff bill: we cannot make tin plate at
8 cents pound and sell it to the people Of
this country. We cannot-make it profitably
at cents, but if you will run the price up
to cents, we will build plants and go into
the manufacture of tin plate and supply
the American market If California
farmer-old man Riggs, we will say for in
stance-had come down there and said to
Major Mckinley, 4 cannot raise wheat at
20 cents bushel, and l want you to raise
the price to 81 bushel,' Major Mckinley
would probably have sent for the chief of
police aud told him to take Major Biggs to
the insane asylum. But when the gentle
came there and said, we want you to raise
the price of tin plate to cents he took
the tariff bill and wrote into it that after
the LIST of July next the tariff upon tin
should be 2 2-l0 cents per pound. Suppos
Ing tin continues to come into the country
from Wales at cents per pound, laid down
in New York; 30 added for tax-the
first cost to the consumer will be 30
cents per pound: Throw off that 2-1O, and
the cents will carry into the treasury
SIC, GOO, 900 annually, in the place of the
S., 100000 that went in heretofore.
THE OBJECT OF THE TAX.
"But the object of this tax is not to get
SIG, 600, 600 into the treasury, but to raise
the price OF foreign tin plate and keep it
out OF the market for the benefit Of those
who will manufacture the plate in this
country and to put the SIG, 100000 into their
pockets. Cheers.
what are the arguments by which my
friends Mckinley and McKenna attempt to
support that tax! They say: eff we estab-
lish tin-plate plant in this country we
Will give employment to 10000 or 80, 900
laborers.
Have we in this new fresh country yet
In TIN making reached that point where the
government is obliged to step in 10 make
work for the peoples Louis Napoleon,
stendlng above that volcano that finally
burst and drove the empire into fragments,
used to make work in Paris to put down
the discomfort of the Paris commune. Let
the government of the United States take
OIL It's heavy foot of taxation and industries
will spring up everywhere. Cheers. |
Every American laborer who wants work
can find work, and that without begging
for 1t. Suppose by building up this thu
plate industry you make work for 10000.
You are taking those 10000 from work in
which they are supporting themselves and
putting them into work that is going to
cost the consumers of tin-plate an extra
Sl6, 700, 900 to support them. You had bet
ter bring them here and board them at the
Hotel Templeton and other hotels and buy
your tin plate at three cents q pound.
ut will not give employment to as many
men as they suggest.
| TO BENEFIT MACHINERY ALONE.
And you are not going to get it. One OF
the very first things that we do in this
country, especially in the protected indus
tries, is to invent machine to take the
place of the man. The man is little trou.
blesome. He demands higher wages thar
they are willing to give, and when they
have beaten him down they cry for ma
chine to take his place and labor for them.
Go through the protected industries and in
great measure you will find, not Ameri.
can labor, not flesh and blood, but iron.
steam and electricity.
$50 true is this that believe that the
remark made by Senator Turpie, of In
diana, in debating the Mckinley bill, nearly
represents the condition in this country to-
day: You talk of levying these taxes tt
! protect American labor-the labor you are
really protecting is the LABOR of the piston
rod and the driving wheel, and the sweat
you are protecting is the sweat of the tubu
lar boiler and the steam guage.'
Another argument was: We will es-
tabllsh the tin-plate plant by these heavy
protective taxes; we will get il fairly on it:
feet and then you can depend upon Ameri
can genius and enterprise to bring down
the price and through competition the peo
pie will get the tin-plate as cheaply from
Pittsburgh and Wheeling as they get il
from Wales There was no much truth in
that argument that five or six years ago
should have been compelled to admit that i
had some force, aud that when the tin-plate
factories were established in this country
the people would get the benefit of al
economies IN reduction of price.
THE INEVITABLE TRUST.
For the last four or five years those
who have gone into those industries hav.
learned something that entirely disposes Of
enlargement.
"The manufacture of tin plate, if it is
ever started in this country, will not bt
made by man and his family, or by the
master and his workmen, but it will bs
made just as steel rails are made to- day
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six great plants. The very moment tina
those people find that they have com
menced to manufacture tin plate cheaper
than cents pound, and are beatine
against each other for the custom of this
people they will meet around little tail,
in Pittsburgh or Wheeling-and there will
be something On that table containing
something different from the liquid in thi,
pitoher-they will say to each other. sWb,
should we cut each others throats by com
peting again4t each other? Let US form a tin
trust loud applausel, and between twt
successive draughts of champagne. bv ,
little piece of writing, not longer than m,
hand, they can vest the capital stock O.
those i've, six or seven corporations in ;
board OF trustees, which instantly becomes
in law the owner Of all the tin establish
ments in the country. They will say t,
this one, Shut down and discharge Won
hands, ito that cone, Run on half time,
and there will be one manufacturer of til
plate in the country, freed by the govern
ment from foreign competition and free,
by combinations from all home competition
WHAT EXCHANGE MEANS.
"Then they say: we send abroad thirty
five millions of dollars. Let US keep tina
money at home. If you look at the report
OF the United States treasury you will fin,
that ordinarily, unless there is some grea
financial disturbance over the world.
little bit of money trckles out of tb
country and trickles into the country, an,
striking the average of ten years it abou