Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-07-15
Mckinley Dinner Pals.

been for many moons now wasted en-
gagged in the manufacture of the nest
able dinner pail, one of the kind which
protection so loudly promised to fill
1t is very ingenious device, arraDg-
ed with separate compartments for
coffee, soup, meat, vegetables, ETC., so
that the working mans dinner cannot
become mixed into unsavory hash.
Nothing can be spilled from it, and
when the pail is empty it can be
"nested" together into so small space
as to admit of being carried in the coat
pocket.
AT International Bridge. Ontario,
the Victoria Manufacturing Company
is making the same kind of pail. But
there is difference in the price.
The Buffalo company advertise to
send sample pals to any part of the
United States, carriage paid, on re-
ceipt Of 90 cents. The Victoria Com.
pany advertise to send sample pals
to any part of Canada for so cents.
F. G. o. Ehle was seen at his
Washington street Office Yesterday,
and asked to give little information
as to his trade and his connection with
the Canadian concern. Mr.. Ehle
was very reluctantly interviewed. but
did venture to say that he had been
making these pals in Buffalo for
some time. 1--WE are just starting
factory in Canada" he added.
"For what purpose ?" he was ask
ed
"For our export trade" was his
answer.
"Why don't you manufacture the
pals here, where you have your
planti"
"Well. to tell the truth. Mckinley
won't let u.s."
"How is thatY Does the duty of
% cents pound on tin-plate injure
your trade ?"
Eyes. We can turn out the manu-
featured product in Canada for what
the tin costs us here"
81 suppose, though. that what you
lose your employees gain in advanced
wages?"
II don't see how. Wages have not
been advanced yet. ~On the other
hand, the prices accommodates in
general use have advanced under the
Mckinley bill from 20 to rs per cent.
As the workingman's wages are no
higher, while the cost of almost every
thing that he buys has been increased,
his purchasing power, his value as a
customer, has been diminished. So
the effect will be overproduction and
hard times"
"But you buy American tin-plate
now. don't your"
II have tried to. but so far have
failed" said Mr.. Ehle, smiling. "The
concerns which claim to be manu-
featuring now in this country have
not even classified their goods. ]
tried to order some home made tin
not long ago. and couldn't get it.
Tin-plate can be imported from Eng
land to Canada at basis of 1892
per box. The same thing delivered
here costs So. The duty of 2 2 cents
a pound does it. 1t has ruined our
export trade. How can we pay high
err wages :"
as this duty the only consideration
that induces you to establish factory
in Canada?'
ut is the principal consideration.
or course, to get the full benefit of
the Canadian patent laws, we have to
manufacture there. But we could
take our chances on that point if we
could export to that country and
compete on equal terms with the
Canadian factories. We are burden.
ed now in all our export trade with a
duty of about 78 per cent. The %
per cent. is equivalent to about 33
per cent. ad valorem. Then foreign
countries, in retaliation, impose duties
on the manufactured goods Of from
40 to 45 per cent, which is more,
sometimes, than the retail value of
our goods. 1t ruins our business, un-
less we manufacture there"
did you export any before the
Mckinley law was passed p
"a little; but the old duty Of 1
cent pound hampered US. We can
manufacture these pals in Canada
and import them into this country
with the duty of so per cent. on the
manufactured product and still save
ID per cent. over the cost of manu-
featuring them here. Why, the duty