The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-01

California, South Dakota and possibly
West Virginia are relied upon confidently
as equal TO the task of supplying the Amer
Jean market with American tin. Not long
since seven tons of tin arrived in San
Francisco from the Temescal mines OF CAL
ifornia, to the great surprise of the enc
mics of American industry, who have been
asserting that the United States could not
produce the tin which enters into
the manufacture Of tin plate. The
report OF the San Francisco expert
who has looked into the tin deposits of
Harvey in the Black Hills region of South
Dakota, is another metallic file for the
viper enemies Of the new tin plate indus
try TO gnaw. He says: Eve are working
only six OF the eleven hundred claims We
have. but the tin will average over per
cent as much again as the Cornwall
mines. We viii have 1900 men at work
in the hill next year, and there is no doubt
that tin can be mined 1900 feet below the
surface"
The United States treasury department
has been written to by st. Louis COM
pany inquiring in regard to the importa-
ton of skilled labor for the tin plate mills,
and in his reply says that Congress did
not intend by the new immigration law to
forbid new industries nor TO limit enter
prise TO American skill, but expressly made
provision for the encouragement of new in
dustries and the importation of new skill"
1t Is clear from this reply that the only
halt I'm ~ A .
has been the lack Of the necessary skilled
labor. Since this may be obtained under
the ruling of the Immigration Commits
sioner, the tin plate plant will soon be
manned and In free motion for full produc-
ton. The Mckinley law provides that on
and after the LIST of July duty of cents
pound should be levied on imported tin,
to continue until July 1, 1896. when, unless
the output Of American mines shall be
shown to have reached 5000 tons for q
year, the duty win be repealed.
The tin duty, therefore, is levied on
terms similar TO those provided in the case
of tin plates, and Ii designed to render the
United States independent of the Cornwall
and the Malacca supplies, develop our
home mining industry and give employ
ment to American capital and labor. To
the extraordinary richness of the tin de-
posits about Harvey the n. Y. Sun (Dem.)
more than year testified through its
able correspondent, Congressman Amos
Cummings, Democrat, who visited them
by direction Of the sun. The charge that
the purchaser of canned goods will suffer
Is without foundation. for so far as the
tariff is concerned canned goods ought to
be lower instead of higher A. B. Rich
ardson. q large Gamer of Dover, Del, six
months ago said on this point:
Under the new tariff canned fruits, instead of
being higher, ought TO be lower, as the amour.
saved IN the price OF sugar, after paying the In
creased cost on the cans, will be 2 cents per
dozen on standard quality peaches, cents per
dozen on extra quality, and II cents per dozen
on sugarsd peaches. The two last named We
pack almost exclusively, and about equal guam
titles: therefore, the cos: will average Q cents
per dozen less under the new tariff than under
she old.
The force of the argument that protec-
ton to tin plate will lower prices as soon
as the American protected industry is able
20 supply the demand. was admitted by ex-
United States Senator Eaton, of Connect
lieut., in a short speech in 1884 in Congress,
when he said:
al am q Democrat OF forty years standing, and
@ the members OF this House l desire 70 address
myself There is not a singla article bought IN
the south, from the wagon that draws The farm
srs cotton 10 the markets, 20 the pin that his
wife uses, that IL not loo per cent cheaper than
II was nfteen years ago. No matter how wrong
the principle OF protection may DC, that is the
fact IL has cheapsned everything under Gods
heavens that men, women and children usa in
this land-eysrything- Take the Collins axes
that have driven the English axes out Of Eng
land and Scotland and Ireland, and the swiss
axe out OF Switzerland, and etthere is q duty
OF 50 per cent. on the Collins axes made in my
country, their oflcs under mine. There was
certain professor who knows no more about the
practical tariff than DO about the Hebrew he
is well acquainted with The professor came
into my county, into large manusActur-
ing village, To make = speech, such
one as nay friend lMr. HuFa) from Ohio de-
lights IN. There was farmer standing by a
post IN the ball The professor said.
MY friend, you are Q fsrmerr yes you
live hereT Yea DO you know that the man
utaetuFers Of this village are robhIng your
'Why. do not know It. How can they rob me7
came here ten years ago with tSo0. bought
farm, running in debt $3.50 for nv farm and
stock went 20 work running truck for this
village. have paid my debt, got money in the
savings bank. and DO not owe any man . dollar
'well.' said the professor, you pay 6 cents
yard duty for the very cloth that your shirt IA
made Of. well. professor, you may think so,
but did not give but cents a yard for thu
cloth Here were theory and fact"
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