The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-10-02

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II Is announced In the trade papers
that two more factories have joined
the United States Glass Co. otherwise
known - tho table glassware trust.
The two companies referred 70 are the
Central. Of Wheeling. w. Va. and
Beatty Rros-. Of THIN. O.. making If
teen companies now IN the trust
The table glassware men have been
thinking for several years Of forming .
trust; and when Mckinley took hold IT
the tariff mill last year 20 grind out
protection duties for trusts. born and
unborn. he created the very opportu-
nifty that they were looking for %
anxiously BY raising the duty on this
kind Of glass goods from 20 per cent 70
10 per cent McKinley's customs I'D
ministrative law. changing the method
Of assessing and collecting duties, added
an additional protection Of about 10 per
cent
As soon rs Mckinley had done his
work for the glassware manufacturers
they saw that their time had come;
they began TO have meetings to con-
slider plans for making their protection
more effective SILL by forming . COM
bination 70 control prices and produc-
ton. Ey the first week in February
they had gone so far rs to apply for a
charter A dispatch from Findlcy, O.,
February 9th. announced that nine
firms had signed the application for n
charter. The trust was 70 start with y
capital OF 81. 600. 600. this to be increased
rs other firms joined in the deal.
The infant trust made the usual
promise that no increase of prices was
TO be expected; but about the same
dine at meeting Of the glassware
dealers Of Boston. held to talk over this
trust ono gentleman. who had just re-
turned from the west asserted that the
main purpose Of the organization was
70 raise prices and control output He
stated further that only the more prof
table concerns were to be taken into
the trust and that the other houses
were either TO be bought in or else
squeezed out of business Squeezing
ont means simply that the poorer pay
ing concerns will be undersold for a
time till they are all killed. What Is
then to happen behind the tariff wall
Of 90 70 20 per cent protection the pub
lie can easily imagine. Urtil these are
closed up we shall perhaps have cheap
er glassware for u season; and wise
protectionist editors will print in big
black letters the pretty story Of how
the increased Mckinley duties have
lowered prices They will prov, TO
their entire satisfaction again that tar
III taxation is the true road TO cheap
ness, and that all men who assert the
contrary are malicious slandcrers of
American industry.
And now the glassware men are
buckling on their armor and closing
up their ranks The nine companies
which signed the application for char
ter have been strengthened by the ad-
dition Of six others; and the capital
stock has been enlarged already from
$1,000. 900 to $4,000. 900. Officers have
been elected. and 70 all outward APP
pearances the trust is about ready for
action
II has been staten above that this
trust has been in view for several years
among the manufacturers II was
publicly charged on the floors Of con-
gress last year when the Mckinley bill
was under consideration tina; the glass
ware manufacturers would take adj
vantage OF the increased duties TO form
com bination. This charge was in
dignantly denied by the McKinleyites
The people can now see what McKin-
leyite dcnials are worth.
There was absolutely no reason for
increasing the duties on glassware. mot
II the high tariff" New York Tribune
is TO be believed. On the fifteenth Of
last October. after the high duties were
already In force, that rampant organ Of
McKinleyism said: THE increase in
duties on pressed glass has no effect
whatever on the cost Of any ordinary
table ware. for such articles. from the
cheapest TO the best. are made in this
country and sold here more cheaply
than anywhere else" 1t also reported
that ''the Cunard steamship line. though
British company. purchased large
supply Of table glassware from makers
in Pittsburgh"
For once the Tribune II right, - d
proved BY the fact that for . number Of
years our manufacturers have sold
abroad from eight 70 ten times Is much
Of such glassware . came into the
United States from foreign countries.
What sense or justice thea in McKin.
ley's enormous duties? Is Il not plain
that these duties can serve no other
! purpose than to turn the millions Of
consumers in this country over to the
tender mercics Of = greedy and grasp
| ing trust?
Men and brethren" says the New
I York Tribune, this Is q trust-killing
| tariff
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