Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-06

and turn out more: then let the maste T
ioregO profits for the same time And
again that paper SAYS: lit IS clearly the
interest of both iPmplOyer and wOrknen ]
10 produce tin plates, tariff or no tariff, at
a prce that VIII drive all competitors from
Tie field" But IN spite Of the doubts
raised bv the elections of 1880 and of the
Vaccinations Of foreign prOduc RS 10 main
ran their monopoly, the tin plate industry
has been established in the United States,
and the alliance between the Welsh pro-
ducerS and the Democratic party for its
destruction Will not succeed. The Official
returns 10 the Treasury Department of tue
production Of tin and terne plates in the
United States during the last fiscal year
show total production of I3.240,SS0
pounds, and comparison Of the first quar-
ter, S26.y22 pounds. with the last IS-
yelopment Of the industry. Over $780,
900 pounds during the last quarter were
made from American block plates,
the remainder from foreign plates. Mr.
Aver the treasury agent, IN charge, eSti-
mates, as the result OF careful inquiry, that
the production OK the fiscal year will be
lOJ.0UO.00O pounds and that by the end OF
the year our production will be at the rate
OF zoo WU, 900 pounds per annuln.
Another industry that has been pTacti-
caly created ay the Mckinley bill IS the
making of pearl buttons. Few articles
ming TO MS from abroad were so distinct
y the product OF starvation wages.
THE HALF CAN'T DE TOLD IN ONE LETTER.
But without unduly extending tins letter.
cannOtfolOw in detail the influence or the
tariff aw Of 1880. Il has trausplanted sey-
eral important industries and established
them mere and has revived OF ENLARGED all
others. The act gives to the miners pro-
lection agalnSt foreign silver bearing lead
ores. the free introduction Of which threat
ened the great mining industries of the
Rocky Mountain states; and TO the wool
growers protection for their tieecps and
fiOckS, which have saved them from a
further disastrous decline. The house Of
representatives at its last session passed
bills placing these ores and woods upon the
free list. The people of the West Will
know how destructive to their prosperity
these measures would be. This tariff law
has given employment to many thousands
of American men and women, and Will
each year give employment to increasing
thousands. Its repeal would throw thOus-
andS out of employment and give work to
others only at reduced wages. The ap-
peals of the free raider to the WOrklngmen
are largely addressed to his preiudlceS or
TO mis- passions, and not ntrequently are
pronOuncedly cOmnuniStiC. The new
Democratic leadership RACES at the en-
plOyer and seeks to communicate his rage
employers of labor are not Just and con-
slderate and that capital sometimes takes
too large a share of the profits. But | do
not see that these evils VIII be amelOrated
by taritf policy the first necessary effect
OF which Is severe wage cut and the sec
Ond large dlminutiOH OF the aggregate
amOunS OF work to be done in this cOun ry.
Ii the injustice of his employer tempts the
workman to strike back he should be very
sure that his blow does not fall upon his
head or upon his wife and children.
WoRKMEN WILL SETTLE IT INTELLI-
GENTLY.
The workmen in our great industries are
as body remarkably intelligent. ana are
lovers of home and country. They may
be reused by injustice, or what seems to
them to be such; or to be led by the others
INTO acts of passion; but they will settle
the tariff question IN the calm light of their
hresldeS and with sole reference to the
prosperity OF the country of which they
are citizens and of the homes they have
founded for their wives and children. No
intelligent advocate of a protective tariff
claims that 1t is able of itself to maintain
uniform rate OF wageS-WlthOut regard to
fluctuations IN the supply of and demand
of the products of abOr-but it is confident
ly claimed that productive duties strongly
tend to hold up wages, and are the only
barrier against reduction 10 the European
scale. The southern States have had hb-
eral participation in the benefits of the
tariff law. and though their representatives
have generally opposed the protection
policy. they rejoice that their sugar, rice,
coal, ores. iron, fruits, cotton cloths and
other products have not been lett to the
fate which the votes of their representa-
tyes would have brought upon them.
In the question of The Nicaragua canal,
in the new trade with the South and Cen
trail America, in the establishment of
American steamship lines, these states
have also special interests, and all these
interests will not always consent to be
without representation at Washington.
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
altogether any reference to the great and
beneficial enlargement of the free list.
During the last fiscal year Si5o 900, 772
worth of merchandise, or 80. So per cent. of
our total importationS came in free (the
largest percentage in our history, " lille in
1889 the percentage of free impOrtationS
was only 34.42. The placing OF sugar upon
the free list has saved TO the consumer in
duties in fifteen months, after paying the
bountieS provided for SS7, 900, 600. THIS re-
Lief has been substantially felt in every
household, upon every saturday purchase
of the worklngman.
One OF the favorite arguments against
a protective tariff is that it shuts us out
from position in what is called with
swelling emphasis 1.-THE markets of the
world" If this view is not false one,
how does it happen that our commercial
competitors are not able to bear with
more serenity our supposed surrender to
them OF the "maTkets of the world p
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.
our protective tariff and the reciprocity
policy, make it possible for us 10 have a
tariff participation in the market of the
world without opening our own to a com
petition that would destroy the comfort
and independence of our people.
BIMETALLISM.
The resolution of the convention in favor
of bimetallism declares, l think, the true
and necessary conditions OF movement
that has, upon these lines, my cordial al
herence and support | am thoroughly
confident that the free coinage or silver at
such a ratio to gold as viii MAINTAIN the
equality in their commercial uses of the
two coined dollars, would conduce to the
prosperity OF all the great producing and
commercial nations of the world The one
essential condition is that those dollars
shall nave and retain an equal acceptabiity