The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-10-22


iignently refused Snd the Belgians
were put 10 work In thsiY place"
This is what is styled projection TO
American labor
THE WOOD SCREW MONOPOLY.
Perhaps the vilest Of all the oombi-
nations is the wood screw monopoly.
The average ad valorem rate of duty ON
wood screws was,50.55 per cent, up TO
The passage of the Mckinley bill when
me duty on sorrows two inches In length
was raised from cents TO 7 cents per
pound; those one inch in length from
cents to 10 conts per pound, and those
one.half inch OF less In length from u
bo Ia cents per pound. This duty was
practically prohibitory, as only s3,719
worth Of screws were imported during
the year ending June 80, 1887. Tho
machines for making screws arc an
American invention. Mr.. Joseph Cham.
berlain, a member Of the British par
lament and manufactures Of screws,
N q speech at Birmingham, England
on the f2th Of November, 1885, gives
this bit of experience with our protect
I'd screw makers a few years ago
representative of tho Providence Screw
Go. Of the United States waited on his
6rm and said: 1--WE are making 100 per
sent on our capital every year and you
send your screws into the United
States; we can undersell you IL we
want to- but that would not be for your
interest or for ours. If you will stop
sending your screws into our market,
we will keep the price of our screws
where 1t Is, enabling US TO double our
capital yearly, and we will pay you
ESQ., 900 annually for so doing"
VERY WELL" said Mr.. Chamberlain,
I'VE made that bargain, and for several
years they paid us the sum until tho
duty on screws imported into the
United States was raised to such a fig
ure that we could not send our screws
there and then they ceased to pay us
this sum-"
Now my Republican friends, you
Golden club shriekers, you anglo-man-
iacs, who fear the use of British gold
In breaking down American industries
stop, pause and reflect upon this use of
American gold 70 British manufactur-
ers in building up this American monop-
oily. Tell me where that $50, 600 came
from2 who paid tho 100 per cent
year on the capital of the Providence
Screw COP Who paid the $50, 600 a
year just to keep competition out of
| the American market2 Why was du-
| ty Of nearly 100 per cent laid on for
eign screws importedP What was 1t If
not this duty that shielded this corpo-
rationP If you really desire to strike
blow at this gigantic and oppressive
combination Join the democrats in ask
| ing congress 60 teke away this duty
that is being used as shield and pro-
tector to this combination.
THE SALT COMBINATION.
The average rate Of duty on salt last
year was 40. 90 per cent How the bene-
fciaries of this duty oheapen salt
through homo competition is plainly
seen in the following Associated Press
dispatch:
Warsaw, n. Y, Jan. 90, 1s9l.-At
the monthly meeting of the Western
New York State association held in
Rochester Thursday, every salt plant in
the field was represented. Eratus
Winan, of New York, was present and
addressed the body. He held that the
unifying of the salt interest Of this ter
ritory could now be accomplished. He
was positive that English money would
not be required now TO float the stock
that would have to be taken.
Another Associated Press dispatch,
dated East Saginaw, Mich, Fob
1891, says: "a majority of the salt
manufacturers Of this state have agreed
to recognize and become members oy
the Michigan Salt association in case
ninety-hve per cent Of those in the
state could be induced to do 3d."
Not only do the salt barons combine
to kill domestic competition, while the
tariff cuts off foreign, but they actually
sell their salt In Canada, freight paid,
cheaper than any American Wholesale
buyer can buy II for in Syracuse itself
OF this protected salt monopoly the
Chicago Tribune says:
'The production of Michigan saline
industry for 1856 sold for about 81, 300,.
900, Of which barely one-quarter was
paid out for wages at the pauper rate
Of &c. so per week, while the.material
cost practically nothing, and the fuel
was obtained at the same easy rate.
Run in connection with the lumber
mills, the refuse from those establish
ments furnishes all that Is wanted In
the shape of power for the driving OF
machinery and evaperators, while the
same mill supply tho material out OF
which packages are made. The profits
realized on the average barrel of salt Is
but trifle short of twice the sum paid
out for labor employed in transforming
the raw material into the finished
product
"And the labor Is Of the 'pauper' Or
der at that. A war of tariff protection
of so per cent on the product has re-
suited In the payment of the magnif-
cent average of about SS 30 per week
during the eleven months of the year
that the works are in operation, the
men and the boys who receive this
compensation being mostly foreigners.
Only few natives are wanted, and for
aught that is known to the contrary
they are paid at tho same rate Of about
a dollar day, at which the commonest
day laborer in this city would turn up
his. nose In disgust Workers In this
and in al other places in the United
States are obliged TO pay royal price
on oil the salt they consume In order
that the salt barons may grow rich
while thus disoouraRing the working
man In his efforts to obtain fair
days wages for fair days labor"
The only way to kill this salt combi-
nation 10 to take down the tariff bar
rier of 80 per cent Down with tho
tariff and pulverlze the combinatlona
JOHN E. MoHNoT.
Canton, Sept 90
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