Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-08-08
An OHIO of Industrial and Com
mercial Facts Pleasing to
Loyal Americans.
emulation of Evidence Show
ing the Beneficial Results of
our Economic System
liars Trust on the Tapis I'M.
portationg Tin John Brights
Wish Free Trade.

II K rumored that a convention will
.,on be called of the export discount liars,
t5s Mckinley prices liars and the tin-pate
iia-g IN form a nucleus for a liars trust
60 The manufacture and dissemination of
campaign lies.
Orr foreign trade still continues TO in
.-s,sa with the balance of trade in our
f5vor. and yet the free,traders tell us that
,.;f We don't buy We cant sell, and that
The Mckinley bill will shut out all foreign
trade. Read freetrade statement and
tben believe the opposite always.
Twenty-Five years ago the idea OF pro-
dpcing silks in this country was laughed
al. to-day we are one of the largest manu-
facturers of silk goods in the world and
the prices are about one.half what they
were. and the goods themselves much
better. 400
we sent the sum of $500, 037 1862 10 Great
Britain for tin plates a good portion CT
tbis amount will soon 90 to American la
bor and for American material.
The new tariff on tin plate did not go
into effect until July !, and the duty on
Mo tin. which l. now free, will not be inn
oosed tin January / 1898 Moreover, our
manufacturers have till October | 1897,
10 show whether they can produce tlnplate
in sufficient quantities to warrant the in
creased duty. In view of these facts,
would it not he well for the free trader to
wait awhile before claiming what we can
do and what we cannot do?
Our population is five per cent. or one
twentieth the population of the globe.
We consume " per cent or one-third Of
All produced. Why should we give up
This market 10 foreigners? Why should
we not manufacture for ourselves2
Uuragricultural products and manufaet-
urel amount to about $50 600 100000 an
ually. We import only about SSO0OOO,-
600 worth half Of which comes in fee.
What a tariff lesson there Is in these
figures. Why should we hot protect all
that we can make and produce ourselves I?
Millions upon millions Of dollars have
been spent for the construction OF rail
roads to take productions Of the interior
to the seaboard Why should not some
thing be done looking toward the trans
portation of our surplus to foreign lands
in United States ships?
Oueof the strongest planks in the re-
publican platform for 1892 will be the
protection Of American shipping and
every true American would like to see the
Stars and Stripes respected the world over.
Great Britain has spent 1915 600, 900 in
5ounties during the last 100 years. Why
should not the United States show some of
this generosity to the crippled shipping
industry?
Several foreign firms are sending circu-
lars to this country offering their goods at
the regular list price carriage and duty
paid; and still the parrot screams: "The
tariff is lax.
Three fourths Of the tin now used in
Great Britain is imported from Australia
and the streets OF Malacca. We can i'm
port tin from the same sources and with
it coat our iron and steel which constitute
81 per cent. OF tin plates, and we can as
rightly call them American tin plate as
the Welsnmen call theirs English tin
plate Five cent S worth Of backing and
labor may make a polished shoe, but the
leather and labor on it still continue SO
per cent. of the finished product
The gates of all our ports still open IN
ward, and with proper discrimination
against undesirable immigration our
home market will grow larger every year.
We are nation of high wages and large
consumers, and protective tariff will keep
Us such
In 1861 we made 635, l64 gross tons of
pig iron; Great Britain made 1908, 800
tons the same year. Last year we made
9,lUO.OO0 gross tons, and Great Britain
made less than 100000 tons.
We consume over 80 per cent. of our
agricultural products at home now, and as
soon as we got to making tin plate, linen,
pushes buttons and many other things
made possible by the Mckinley bill, our
farmers will find a market right at their
doors for all they can produce and at good
prices, too.
Last year we imported about 100000
wy worth Of farm produce his will be
olnsiderably lessened in the future, thanks
% the new tariff.
subsidies are paid annually to the
amount Of $500, 900 900 by England, 81
100000 by France, 81 100000 by Germany,
g 900 600 by Italy, 81 500 90 by Spain
and more or less by every nation having a
merchant marine.
" wish that cursed country (America)
1al never been discovered, said John
SUIT bfldbat+ Abitl AlAE EiNat AANN
trader they have no taxes in proportion
o their population The farmers in Amer
Iy5 have no rent no tithes, no poor rate
in hort, they till the soil, but own the
land they till.
OF the 10000 hands in the jute mills Of
Dundee, Scotland, 1900 belong to famil-
ies whose homes are single rooms.
The failures of the year 1851, after 10
years ot free trade. exceeded those Of 1890,
after 80 years Of protection, by 81, 900, 900,
although the amount Of capital invested
ihan was not more than one -third what it
is now.
Syme idea Of the magnitude of our home
trade can be had from the traffic Of the
Salit Ste, Marie canal which connects
LAKE Superior with the waterways to the
eastward. The freight carried in 1890
vas valued at Sl022l $40 600. This, re-
member, Is a single island lake with half
dozen competing railroads.
lhe tariff is q tax-on foreign goods
winch come in to silence American mills,
e drive American labor from employment
ana 70 turn a stream Of money from
19mes9e circulation to foreign shores.
9lr annual average foreign trade in the
yer. 1856 so under free trade was 1916
/. w pr $50 30 per, capita, and during
roe period 1855 80. un6er a protective
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