Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-27

The Labor Tribune is one OF those
organs of the workingmen which. as we
have before remarked, supported the
tin-plate tax one year ago under the de-
fusion that American labor would reap
some benefit therefrom, but has had its
eyes opened to the true inwarduess OF
that swindle by the recent behavior of
Niedringhaus and others. Tho La5or
Tribune, in recent issue, comments
upon the latest exhibition of the un-
willingness of prospective manufac-
turers of plates for timing to let their
workmen come in for what looks like
very modest amount Of the enor-
nous protection" promised in the
Mckinley bill. We do not under
stand that any American roll
ing mill is actually turning out
as yet any plate suitable for
timing, but the Amalgamated
Association of Iron Workers has
been trying to arrange that, should
any such plate be manufactured, the
workmen shall receive Is per cent extra
for their labor thereon, This would not
be very much per ton--most probably
only few cents. Senator Gray dem
onstrated, from official figures, in the
congressional debates of last summer,
that the cost of the labor employed in
making one ton of steel rails at Pitts
burg was only 10 cents more than that
paid by the English manufacturer. That
is to say, that the tariff tax of $l7 per
ton protected" American labor to the
extent of 10 cents. Doubtless the con.
clusiveness with which this was demon
strated by Senator Gray had some
effect in inducing the McKinleyites
to reduce this duty-for they did
reduce ito $i3.44 per ton. The
Mckinley duty on tin-plate is
two and two-tenth cents per pound,
equivalent to $3.50 per ton. 1t would
not be Unreasonable in the Amalga-
mated Association to ask for 50 per ton
out of this--but we do not suppose that
the extra Is per cent that has been asked
would amount to more than so cents
per ton at the outside. Yet the manu-
facturers are kicking and contending
that they cannot see why they should
be required To pay more for the labor
employed in rolling templates than for
| the labor employed in rolling any other
kind of plates. They did not "fry out
fat for that purpose, of course.
Fmin Pasha has been heard from
again. Emin will be remembered as the
man whom Stanley went to Africa to
rescue. lie was running government,
practically of his own but nominally a
British protectorate, in equatorial Africa
to tile southwark Of the Soudan. The
military achievements Of the Mahdi cut
him of from communication, by the
Nile, with the outside world, and he
was represented to be hemmod in on all
sides by the forces and allies of the
victorious False Prophet" and, there
fore, in a very bad way. SO Stanley
went out to rescue him, but Emin cared
so little to be rescued that when Stanley
finally reached him he had to fairly drag
him away from his Ethiopian province.
He dragged him TO Zanzibar, where
Emin, after passing unscathed through
years Of the supposed perilso Of barbarism,
fell from Il second-story window and
cracked his skull. Ii nearly killed him,
but his hearty constitution pulled him
through, and, as soon as he got well
enough, he deserted his rescuer
and plunged back into the heart
Of the dark continent where there
are no such death traps as
second-story windows and similar
perils Of civilized life. News now
comes that Emin has reoccuped his old
province and most soundly and com.
pletely walloped the hostile dervishes
in decisive battle, in which Emin cap.
tured 5000 tusks Of ivory and large
quantity ofamuntion, arms and ''stores
Of many descriptions From which il
would appear that Emin can be de
pended upon to take care of himself il
rescuing expeditions will only leay,
him alone in future.
Every visitor TO New York is more d
less familiar with the Washington
Building, down by tile Battery, one o
those alttudin0ns structures that max,
ones neck ache to look up 10. Plan
have now been prepared for the erection
, Immediately in the rear Of this colossa