The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-06-19

rns Nis<irinrhnus systsm of Fostering
Infant Industries
Democratic newspapers do not con-
tend. a. is asserted by advocates 81
high taxes. that tin plate cannot 20
made in the United States On the
contrary. democrats know and state
~ every occasion when il IL pertinent,
that tin plate can b. made In America
and that tine American market can DC
supplied with American tin plate.
Americans can do anything that any
bodv else can do We can raise bananas
right here in ST. Louis and supply the
market with them. and give employ
ment TO az least one hundred thousand
workmen in doing II; and. what y
more. we can do il at profit There
u no question about II al all. II has
been done by wealthy men like mr.
Niedringhaus, who did II for amuse-
ment in an experimental way, as Mr..
Niedringhaus is now making tin plate
They made no money out Of II, nor Is
MIR. Niedringhaus making money out
~ tin plate. but we stake The Repub-
lies reputation that money can be
made out Of raising bananas and pro-
ducing tin plate in It. Louis, II the al
rections are followed
The first requisite for the banana
experiment would be 10 forbid anyone
from eating any but 81. Louis bananas
IL Mr.. Niedringhaus and his republic
an friends will touch that button we
will do the rest to build up bis
banana industry in ~. Louis
Right around ST. Louis there are al
leaat one hundred thousand acres OF
land that can be put under glass ane
heated by steam 10 a temperature q
eighty-fve degrees the year round
This will give employment to more
| men at the start than will ever be EN-
ployed in the tin-plate industry. Their
| thousands OF Others would be employed
! at good wages in keeping up the fires
| tending the thermometers, picking ant
marketing the frait. II no one were
| allowed TO buy any but St Louis ba
nanas, we could find ready marke
for the entire st. Louis product at lift.
| cents apiece And il would be yer,
profitable to everybody engaged in tn
industry.
The only objections to this plan are
first that it would be grossly oppres
sive and destructive Of liberty; and sec
ond that it would increase the price. o
bananas and decrease the consumr
ton.
Both these objections apply to III
plate with as much force as to bananas
We get bananas cheap now, becaus
about all they cost, except freight an
handlers profits. IS to have one OF IN
cheap South Americans. who wea
nothing much except q shirt. and nc
always that-one Of the cheap Sout
Americans. we say, with whom MI
Blaine is willing TO let New Englan
have free tradc-climb the tree an
pull them off for us SO we get ther
six for = nickel. after freight and hand
lers fees are paid.
But the trouble is that Mr.. Niedrinf
haus is not making any money out 9
Il. IL Is too small business for a ma
Of his large ideas As long as Amer
cans are free in the matter Of banana
he is too great . man to have anythin
to do with six-for-a-nickel busines
He agrees with Mr.. Harrison that ches
bananas make cheap men,
We were getting cheap tin plate whe
we were free in the matter Of tin plat
1t was made in Wales where the tin
and the cheap Welshmen are. No
when the law forbids rs 70 buy e
cept from Neldringhaus; when we a
fined two dollars and twenty cents {
every hundred pounds Of foreign tin y
use, Mr.. Neidringhaus will consent
bring the tin from Wales and the che;
velshmcn 70 melt it and dip the plat
in II. IL he can't do it and do 1t at
profit it is only because he and
party have not yet taken enough fire
dom from the rest Of us to make
profitable. Put the tariff fines on I
use OF foreign bananas or foreign
plate high enough and st. Louis G
produce bananas and tin plate at
exorbitant profit But it would be I
cheaper to buy Mr.. Neidringhaus
than TO have him go into either
plate or bananas under this plan
fostering infant industries -
Louis Republic