The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-07

Qay CNu uupllCute luuL nulb ANA CIV
anywhere in the United States. But
you say everything is cheaper now than
then
question? You say you can buy that
suit OF clothes in England for 81, and
you ask why you shall not be permitted
to do SO. / don't know that you can
do so. ! rather think not. But i don't
care whether you can or not. l would
rather pay $40 for an article made here
in my own country and know while l
am wearing it that the people who
grew the sheep and furnished the wool,
that the women who spun the yarn and
wove the cloth, and the tailor who
made the suit-know that the people
who did the work got wages enough to
eat meat once week anyhow while the
work was going on. Laughter. be-
long to crowd that believes in pro-
tecting American labor and paying
wages to American workmen. l was
lucky enough to be born poor myself,
] have been holding my own marvel.
ously up to the present. Laughter and
applause.
TIN PLATE.
You ask what made US put a duty
on tin? We didn't. Why, isn't there
a wicked duty on tinP Not Mt all. Tin
is on the free list. In the Mckinley
bill? Yes. We never produced any tin
III this country? Not n pound. What
is it they are making such terrible
racket about? Tile tariff on tin plate.
In tin plate there is very little tins In
hundred pounds OF tin such rs used
for cups there is not more than three
and one.half pounds Of tin. The rest OF
il is steel. The coating on roofing tin
contains about one and onc.fourth per
cent tin; the rest Of the coating is lead.
We paid SS0,000000 for tin plate last
year-sent it out of the United States.
We concluded it was about time We
made our own tin plate, and We put o
duty Of two and two-tenth cents pound
on that article to establish that
industry in this country and
cheaper tho product to the peo-
pie who use il. The manufacturers
pledged us that il we did SO they would
cheapen il. | will make this bargain
with you: that ii we don't cheaper it
within the next two yedrs.-pay less for
it than we have been paying for it the
last year--I will never make another
protection speech. Provided always that
ii we do cheaper it, you will shut up.
Laughter and applause.l / have made
that proposition to twelve men in de-
bate and have never yet got man to
accept it. Free traders are trying to
make the people believe that there is
no tin plate made in this country.
Now there is another thing have al.
ways with me beside my memory and
that is my eyesight. And l say thoy
are making tin plate now in the United
States for / have seen them doing SO in
five mills. At Demlar, Pa, they are
making the finest roofing tin in the
world. You can get it of Taylor 4 Co.,
at Philadelphia. You can buy it by the
wagon load in Chicago.
One place i'll California they are turn
ing out fifteen tons OF pure tin every
week, so the papers say, working three
hundred men, There is another mine in
the Black Hills working three hundred
men. have seen that with my own
eyes. AS long as my eyesight is good,
that and my memory will save me on
this question. Laughter and applause
TIE PROPHETS FAILED.
There never has been new industry
started in the United States that free
traders haven't informed US, that for
some natural reason we conld not pro-
duce that kind OF goods. ! remember
very well when we put the duty on
plate glass. There hadn't been
square foot OF itmade in the United
States. A duty was levied for the purG
pose of trying to make it in this coun-
try. The FREQ traders said IL WINS flying
in the face OF nature to attempt it.
They said the good Lord didn't intend
people to make glass in this country,
because he had put iron and cobalt in
the sand hero and had left it pure over
on the other side. We didn't believe
it. We put a heavy duty on that
article, and now we are making the
most elegant plate glass on the
face OF the earth. At the very
time these fellows were telling us that
the Lord was prejudiced against this
country, and had made bad sand in this
United States, ut that very time the
manufacturers OF England, France, and
Germany were shipping sand from the
hills OF Western Massachusetts across
the ocean, because they have'a hill there
OF the purest sand ever found on the
face Of the globe. We built up that in
dustry. When we commenced to man
ufactlre plate glass was $2.25 a square
foot over this country. To-day it is sell
ing for seventy cents. ! remember
when we commenced to manufacture
saIt by machinery. They said you
can't do it. There are many i'm
purities. You may make something
that would do to feed sheep and cattle
but it would never do to put in butter
and cheese or to cure meat"-had to
have English salt, you know. We met
that objection until about three years
ago when dairy salt manufacturers OF
my State sent the salt manufacturers in
the old world challenge to meet us in
a square and fair test at the State fair ut
Albany, n. Y. The association appoint
ed threc chemists and three practical
butter makers to examine oil the salt
presented on that occasion. The chem
lists analysed it, found out what it was
composed of, the butter makers tried 1t
in butter and cheese, and when we lett
that fair Michigan had the rcd ribbon
as having the finest salt.
Tho Warsaw fellows also challenged
tho English salt manufacturers. They
had the contest at Elmira, N. Y. Your
congressman W. L. Wilson and myself
were present, and debated this question
at that time. l examined into this salt
business; he didn't. Laughter And
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