The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-09-15

w,s 80 lofeso pfon's 'of 'ne sanns -
Ard 5 again, that paper says an y elesr.
men 20 produce tin plates, tariff OF no
nsfc,s ts a. oR Rr;Sss K. tss shst WIN drive all com
y sp a r. q fSSsn Ss sssd sss
foreign producers TO maintain their mon
opoly, the tin plate industry has been 60
tablished In The United States, and tho al
lance between the Welsh producers and the
s psrsF tor its destruction ,p viii
ury department of the production Of tin
and ter1e plates, in the United States, dur
ing the last fiscal year, show q total pro
duction OF !S,N9S3o pounds, and chm,
parison OF t& first quarter s28,9cc
pounds POUNDS shows sa the the rapia 1sSaa Ope SsSsiOpo
ment Of the industry Over 5000, ,Oto
pounds during the last quarter were made
from American black plates and the ne
maindef from foreign plates-
estimates as the result Of Careful inquiry
will be 1ooooo,ooo pounds, and that By the
END END oi the year I r% our II production will be at
.,11 Another craad INDUSTRY thet has beep Rracto
making Of peefl buttons
Few articles coming to us from abroad
were 80 Distinctly The product Of starvation
Bgs, without Hnduly. extending this let
Of the tariff law Of 1890 It has transplant-
cd several important industries ind estab-
lished them here, and has revived or en-
lsrged all others The act giv0 to the
miner protection against foreign silver
bearing lead ora the free introduction Of
ing industriesl Of the Rocky mountain
etates, and to the wool growers protection
for their feeces and flocks, which has saved
them from further and disastrous de-
lie house of representatives, at it's last
session, passed bills placing these ores and
Wool Upon the Free List.
The people Of the west well know how
destructive to their prosperity these meas
This tariff law has given employment to
many thousands Of American men and
women, and will each year give employ
ment to increasing thousands. Its repeal
would throw thousands out of employ
ment and give work to others only At re-
dpced wages.
The appeals Of the free trader to the
, workingman arc likely addressed to bis
prejudices or to his passions, and not in
frequently are pronounced communistic.
The new Democratic leadership RACES at
the employer, and seeks TO communicate
his rage to the employe. / greatly regret
that all employers Of labor are not Just
and considerate, and that capital some
time takes too large share Of the profits.
ameliorated by tariff policy, the first
necessary effect Of which Is severe wage
cut, and the second large diminution Of
the aggregate amount Of work to be done
In this country.
If the injustice of his employer tempts
the workman to styf<e back, he should be
very sure that his blow does not fall upon
bis own head or upon his wife and chill
drep.
are s.l as body, remarkably s Intelligent and
what seems to them 70 be such, Of be
led for the moment by others into acta
OF passion, but, they will settle the
tariff tariff contest contest In the calm light 9f
try Of which they are citizens, and Of the
homes they have founded for their wives
and children. No intelligent advocate OF
protective tariff claims that it is able of it
self to maintain uniform rate of wages
| ply Of and demand for the products of Ia
bor-but 1t Is confidently claimed that pro
tective duties strongly tend to hold up
wages. and are the only barrier against d
reduction to the European scale.
participation in the benefits Of the tariff
law, and, though their representatives
have generally opposed the protection
policy, rejoice that their sugar, rice coal,
ores, iron, fruits, cotton cloths and other
products have not been left to the fate
which the views Of their representatives
would have brought upon them.
! In the construction Of
The Nicaragua Canal
In the new trade with South and Central
! America, in the establishment of American
steamship lines, these states have also spe-
cial interest. and all these interests will
not always consent to be without repre-
Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our adj
versaries speak only of the increased duties
imposed upon tin, pearl buttons and other
articles by the Mckinley bill, and omit al.
| together.a any reference to the great and
ing the last fiscal year $45s, ,000 772 worth Of
merchandise, or 55.85 per cent of our total
importations, came In free (the largest per
centage in our history. while in 1880 the
per cent of free impOrtations was only 81 AZ
per cent The placing of sugar upon the
provided for. sS70O0,060 This relief has
been substantially felt In every household
upon every Saturdays purchase Of the
| workingmen.
One Of the favorite arguments against a
protective tariff is that it shuts us out
from participation in what Is called
with swelling emphasis the markets Of
the world" Il this view Is not false one,
how does 1t happen that our commercial
competitors are not able to bear with more
serenity our supposed surrender to them of
the markets OF the world ?" And how does
it happen that the partial loss Of our market
closes foreign tin plate mills and plush
factories that still have all other markets :
Our natural advantages, on! protective
tariff and the reciprocity policy, make Il
possible for Us to have a large partioipa.
zion In the markets of the world" with
out opening our owp to competition
that would destroy the comfort and in
dependence of our peopla
The resolution Of the convention In favor
of bimetallism declares, l think, the trus
and necessary conditions of a movement
that has, upon these inee, my cordial ad-
herence and support. I am thoroughly
convinced that the free coinage of silver,
at such ratio to gold as will maintain the
| equality in their commercial uses Of the
| nad al A.