Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-06-05
TlN PLArE ANp rtiE rARlEF.
The ':Faetory'' at st Louis Employs u
Force of Three-A Republican Accuses
Merchants of Dishonesty.

The Factory at st Louis Employs u
Force of Three-A Republican Accuses
Merchants of Dishonesty.
A correspondent in to-day's Republi-
can-anonymous, of course-makeS a
very feeble attempt to show that the
tariff placed upon tin plate by the Nc
kinley bill has already greatly bene-
fitted the American people, and speaks
of twelve tin plate factories now run
ming in this country. What is said to
be the most prosperous of these twelve
factories is owned by the wealthy Mr.
Niedringhaus of st Louis, occupies a ten
by twelve room and is manned by
force consisting of two Welshmen and n
hoy. The fact is tin plate cannot be
made in this country at a reasonable
price. We were getting cheap tin plate
when We were free in the matter of tin
plate. 1t was made i'll Wales where the
tin Is and where the cheap Welshmen
are. What is to he gained 10y bringing
| TIN here from Wales and the cheap
Welshmen to melt it and dip the plates
in it:
The imports o tin plate for 1899 were
10000, 900 pounds, valued at sci ,00O,-
600. The Mckinley tax to be collected
on this importation Is , cents pound,
or on the importation of 1889 SIG, 1885,
OO0 SO that the S2l 900 900 worth of tin
of 1889 will Cost us with the Mckinley
tax paid $31 ,196, 900. The SIG, 1916, 900
of this increased price represents the
fraudulent profit that American manu-
facutrers are authorized 10y the AIckin-
ley bill to collect.
| The profit, 50 authorized, amounts to
| 80 per cent above the cost of foreign tin,
not counting i'll freight and brokers
| fees. For every dollars worth of tin
made i'll tn" United States the con-
sumner is sentenced to pay IL fine of 50
cents, to be collected by the American
maker, VIII le for every dollars worth of
foreign TN the consumer is fined 81
cents, collected 10y the treasury.
In considering these figures the con-
sumner need not concern himself with
whether or not tin-plates will be dipped
in the United States. Whether they
are or not, this act of legislation raise
the price of Il dollars worth of tin in
this market to 81 50, and this extra 81
cents on the dollar is To be paid by
American labor. No foreigner will dc
Il single hours work to pay for it.
Every cent of it must be made good by
American sweat. When taxes on prices
are increased III America, the difference
comes out of the earnings of American
labor. 1t can come from nowhere else
for wealth is produced only by labor
and if these laws take wealth from one
class - give it to another, which has
not earned it, the class that loses it i.
the class that has labored to earn it
The tax of SIG, 1876, 900 which the tin
plate consprators have levied on the
people means that SO much more wOrt
must be done by those who do the work
of the country, and that the return fol
this work shall go not to those VIII,
earned it, but To those who are strong
enough and insnlent enough to cHfurcI
Il demand to br 'fusterrd" by govern
ment ut the expense of American labor
The Republican correspondent winds
up his TRADE by making IL general at
tack upon local merchants, whom he ac
cuses of deliberately lying in regard tC
the price of certain lines of goods before
and after the Mckinley bill took effect
As one of the largest dry goods mer
chants in the city said to the DlNOCRA1
to-day, lit was cheap article, in ;
cheap paper, and evidently written by ;
cheap man"