The Forrest City times., 1891-06-05
AN EXPELLED INDUSTRY
THE AMERICAN SCREW COM PANY GOES TO ENGLAND.

An Important Industry Driven Out by Mckinley - The Company Must Have Free Raw Materials-McKinley's Draw back No Good-Just as Gladstone Said.
 Republican organs have published with delight all the news they could get about European manufacturers who have been compelled by our high tariff to move their establishments to this country. They have crowed over these reports and claimed them as the highest possible evidence that the Mckinley law is good and wise measure for this country. They do not appear to see that the expense of moving these indus tries to America must be eventually borne by American consumers in higher prices paid for the goods made in these establishments.
 But the transportation of industries across the ocean is not all in one direc- tion. A case has just been reported where an industry has been forced to cross the ocean from America to Europe, and Republican journals have found no space to refer to the matter at all. The American Screw Company, of Provi- dence, K. l., has just decided to move some of it's idle machinery from Provi- dence to Leeds, Englan where it will eIcCb ldISO ldCVoiy SONOliHS nh USiO and a half of ground It will also estab- fish factory in Germany.
 The reason given by the President of the company, Mir. Angell, is as follows;
 "Al the goods we make in Canada and shall make in England and Germany could just as well be made in Rhode Island, were it not for the fiscal policy of this Government. Employment could be given to thousands of workmen here in the manufacture of goods for the for eign market, if we were not hampered by high tariff. We make better goods, and could make them cheaper here than anywhere else in the world, in spite of the higher wages we have to pay, be- cause our system of work is so much ahead of the European system. The American workman gets higher wages than his English brother, but he does more work in proportion" Mr. Angell states that his company will introduce the American system of work into the Leeds factory, with Americans as heads of departments, but with English fac tory hands.
 The McKinleyites boast that the draw back of go per cent. in the new tariff law gives the manufacturers practical free trade for the foreign market; and, in speaking the praises of this drawback, Mckinley invites the manufacturers to Ego out and capture the markets of the world" But that this Mckinley draw back is of no practical value to some of our manufacturers is evident from the following utterances of MT. Angel:
 "One of the principal reasons that in duced us to establish the English plant is the worthlessness of the drawback clause in the Mckinley bill, which makes 1t next to impossible for a manufacturer to take advantage of it. In order to get drawback on exports made of imported raw material, on which a duty has been paid, manufacturer is put to more trouble and bother than the drawback Is worth. He must make sworn declara- tion stating the name of the steamer in which the material was imported, to- gether with date of importation. Then he has to have the signature of the cap tain or mate of the vessel in which the goods are exported and of the foreign consignee who receives them, besides divers and sundry other documents from the Customs officials These he must take to Washington, and if they are all right, by and by he will get his draw back.
 'sIn our case" remarked Mir. Angel, "all thlS IS practlcally mpoSSlole, De- cause we use imported raw material from different countries, and to keep track of all the different kinds, with the dates and places, would involve endless work and trouble.
 eve shall send part of the machinery in our Eddy street mill to Leeds, and a part to the German manufactory to be established soon. In this way we shall give employment to labor abroad that we should be only too glad to employ at home were it not for the endorsements which the Mckinley tariff imposes upon us"
 Yet it was this bill of which Mckinley himself boasted in his great tariff speech in the House of Representatives year ago: "It is an American bill; it is not a European bilt."
 The fact the American Screw Com pany must go to Eng and where it can get free raw materials, in order that il may compete in the markets of the world, is a striking confirmation of the truth of Gladstone's recent remark: "As a rule you will find that the system oi protection adopted by the United States disabes that country in competing witt us in the markets of the world"