Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-07-03

proved appliances in every process. The
Weshmen must do the same if they
really mean to retain command of the
industry. There is no alternative. II
they stand still and rely upon the old
fashioned way of doing things they will
be stranded high and dry, whereas if they
will move on and use their quick wits and
undoubted energy all that other nations
may do will not suffice to sap their su-
premacy."
Another significant utterance comes
through communication in the Liver
pool Daily Post, which says:
"No mole would be so blind as not to
discern the gravity OF the danger which
lies in the direction of doing anything at
all except promptly and theoretically in
the way of quick reduction of makers
prices. Here is the proposition placed
before you for consideration by McKin-
ley. He says: ave want to keep the
Welsh tin plates out of America and
make them in America. Therefore we
raise the price about per cent per box,
which will make the duty collected ON
plates about $l5,000,000, or 100000
sterling in all. We (America) are con-
tent to pay this duty for a few years
while we develop our new tin plate indus
try.
"Now, this is what you have to face,
you the makers OF South Wales. Do you
shirk the awkward position? 1t looks as
if you did, as if you wished to hide the
ugly thing Else why are you 50 foolish sa
ought to try and reduce the SIS 900, 900,
and in so doing to effect two things:
"(a) To keep up the consumption.
"(b) To render American competition
difficult.
america has aftificialy increased the
price OF tin plate; you must at once re-
duce it in every possible way. Every
move in this direction increases your
prospect Of saving the trade and choking
off native mills for year or two, when
the Mckinley bill may be repealed
Every move such as closing Of mills for
a month or other unnatural and perfectly
Intellectual dodge would bring swift retri-
button to the makers.
"You can not as body of makers see
all this as we see, it almost paralyzes one
with amazement. That you do not, in
stead of talking of stopping for month,
at once call the worknen together and
explain to them the crisis you have to
face in couple of months and so arrange
for your common salvation by reducing
wages and foregoing profits, is simply
amazing"
Here is plain talk, cut down wages and
forego profits and thus choke off the ma
tive (American) mills for year or two
when the Mckinley bill may be repealed.
This is the old English game, which was
tried when we began to manufacture rail-
way bars. At that time the English sold
rails so low that in one year every blast
furnace in Pennsylvania went out of blast
and the men left their starving families
at home to beg for work anywhere at any
kind of labor. The city of Philadelphia
advertised for 100 men to work on the
streets at 80 cents per day and ii is said
that 4 1000 or 5000 skilled mechanics
came down from the Alleghanies to beg
for such work at such wages. Then
when utter decentralization prevailed,
when the men were scattered far and
wide and capital had sought other chan
nels the price of English rails went I'D
higher than it had ever been before, we
had to pay the price demanded, and the
English manufacturers reaped rich har-
vest OF profits at our cost. Here is the
last spasmodic appeal from the Liverpool
(England) Daily post:
"You must reduce the price of tin plate
at once. Every reduction made by you
increases the chance of choking down tn,