The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-10-22

| worth OF screws We're imported during
the year ending June 80, 1887. The
machines for making screws are an
American invention. Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain, n member of the British par
lament, and a manufacturer of screws,
in speech at Birmingham, England,
on the 18th of November, 1886, gives
this bit of experience with our protect
ed screw makers A few years ago a
representative of the Providence Screw
Co. of the United States waited on his
firm and said: I'VE are making 100 per
cent on our capital every year ard you
send your screws into the Ia ted
States; we can undersell you if we
want to, hut 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 it is, enabling us to double our
capital yearly, and we will pay you
$50. 600 annually for SO doing"
Very WELL" said Mr.. Cham berlain,
1--WE made that bargain, and for several
years they paid us the sum until the
duty on screws imported into the
United States was raised to such fig
! ure that we could not send our screws
there and then they ceased to pay us
this sum"
Now my Republican friends, you
J Golden club shriekers, you angio-man-
: iacs, who fear the use of British gold
! in breaking down American industries,
stop, pause and reflect upon this use of
| American gold to British manufactur-
ers in Luilding up this American monop-
oily. Tell me where that 10000 came
from? Who paid the 100 per cent
year on the capital of the Providence
Screw Co.? Who paid the $50. 600 a
year just to keep competition out of
the American market? Why was du-
ty of nearly 100 per cent laid on for
eign screws imported? What was it if
not this duty that shielded this corpo-
ration? If you really desire to strike
blow at this gigantic and oppressive
com bination join the democrats in ask
ing congress to take away this duty
that is being used az shield and pro
tector to this com bination.
THE SALT COMBINATION.
The average rate of duty on salt last
year was 40. 90 per cent. How the bene-
fciaries of this duty cheaper salt
through home competition is plainly
seen in the following Associated Press
dispatch:
Warsaw, N. Y, Jan go, 1s91.-At
the monthly meeting of the Western
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, Feb 5,
1891. says: "a majority of the salt
manufacturers of this state have agreed
to recognize and become members of
the Michigan Salt association in case
ninety-five per cent. of those in the
state could be induced to do So"
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 it for in Syracuse itself. |
OF this protected salt monopoly the i
Chicago Tribune says:
The production of Michigan saline
industry for 1886 sold for about 81, 3o0,-
paid out for wages at the paupcr rate |
of $3.50 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 esta .lish-
ments furnishes all that IS wanted in
the shape of power for the driving of |
machinery and eraperators, while the
same mill supply the material out of
which packages are made The profits
realized on the average barrel of salt is
but trif,e 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 magnifi-
cent average of about SS.5 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 the same rate of about
a dollar day, at which the commones.
day laborer il this city would turn ul
his nose in disgust Workers in this
and in all other places in the United
States are obliged to pay royal price
on all the salt they consume in order
that the salt barons may grow rich
while thus discouraging the working
man in his efforts to obtain a fair
days wages for fair days labor"
The only way 10 kill this salt combi-
nation is to take down the tariff bar
rier of SO per cent Down with the
tariff and pulverize the combinations.
JOHN Z. MoNNoT.
Mckinley voted for the free coinage
of silver He admits it. He voted to
coin the present silver dollar. The
record shows it The present silver dol
lar is just what republican congress,