Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-21
Its a Glittering Fraud Accord
ing to Mr.. Springer.
SMALL BOYS AS TIN DlPPERS.
Paid tho Very Lowest Wages arc the Labo,ers
Who Arc


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Mr. Springer, replying 10 a speech 4
made hy Governor Mckinley AZ Elwood, !
Ind, last week. referred to the tariff ON I
tin plato and TO tho industry which It |
WAS claimed would hc created lie |
said;
Prior TO tho passage OF tho Mckinley |
act, the tariff ON tin plate was cent u |
pound, by the provisions OF that act |
the tariff was increased To 80 cents u
pound, but the increase was not 10 take
effect until tho fist day Of July, 1891
During this interval OF nino months
between tho passage Of the act and its
taking oiicot AZ the Increased rats,
there was an enormous increase In the
importation OF tin plates la order to
gut them Into this country under tho
old rate and sell Thorn rs " thoy had
paid the Increased ratio, Tho price
Of tin plato Immediately IN
creased ON the passage of the
bill and consumers wero compelled
80 pay largely increased prlces, while
the government received only tho other
rate, lmportatlons for tho year ending
June 30, 1891, amounted 20 l,O3V, i6hOIl
pounds, while for the succeeding year
ending June 30, 1899, There were only
AS, ii6, 202 pounds The average for
each year was 22,3i2, a0a pounds, sub
stantally the amount required every
year for consumption, IL the Mckinley
] bill had taken effect rs 10 Tin plates
| Immediately on It's passage, as II should
! have done, the government would have
received In duties on tin plates for the
1 nine months Of that Asoal year and for
| the next fiscal year, twenty-ouo months
/ In all, the sum OF s2Si, 020.sO
But the amount actually received
| being at the ratio Of hcont pound
| on Importation iOr the remaining nine
! months OF tho fiscal year aud 90 cents
| pound on impor,Ations for the year
ending June 70, 'g2, woreonly Site
| pa or $40, 2I0,Sii less than the govern
should have received,
In tho meantime the people were re-
| quircd 10 pay for tin plate furnished
| for consumption tho same as II they
actually paid duties at the rate Of ~
cents per pound, sl0,00O,000 IN excess
OF the amount the government actually
received. THIS amount OF tl0.OO,OW
was the net profit OF this tin plato i'm
portors and lobbors without taking any
risk whatever, which they were on
abled 70 realize 10y reason ot the post
ponement for nine months oi the tlme
Tor the taking effect Of tho increased
tax on tin plates,
In order 10 got into this country the
billion pounds OF tin pinto which wero
imported during the year ending Juno
3O 1891, the mills IN Wales were
worked 10 their utmost capacity, and
after the close Of that fiscal year, In
July. 1902, the mills which had been
oyerworkod In order 10 meet the Inn
menee demands from the United States
were Obliged 10 shut down for the time
IN order that consumption should eaten
up with production But Republican
newspapers mud politicians Immediately
sci up the claim that the Mckinley bill
hnd caused the tin plate mills In Wales
90 be shut down and that Industry was
being transferred 10 this country
Thus history and facts nro perverted
IA order 70 deceive tho people and com.
mrnd 10 popular favor the political
party which Is responsible for thii
Wicked legislation, The pretoXt set VI
by the authors Of the MCKINLEY bil
was that the tin plates consumed m
this country for which we paid England
$50. 900, 900 year, could just as wei 10
made Ia this country, and that by "a
doing employment would be given e
I many thousands of cltizcna 81 tht
United states and the amount paid EN-
! ] NNuIlu DC HANNh " WV I'HIfA' ~ 49,
country. This contention utterly TX
nores the fact that our people export
TO OTHER COUNTRIES
every year articles, which are valued
I al from $500 OO0,O0 10 $1,000 OOO,OOO
Last wear our exports exceeded QUE i'm
ports 500 900. 600 We must got some
! thing for these enormous exports q
I per cont Of which arc products Of ou
farms We cannot got gold and silver
} for 10 seems the oxportB Of coin and bnl
J lion for the last year exceed our I'M
ports.
, Agricultural products are doarcr il
! Enrope than IN this country. hence W.
must 10 a great extent exchange TN
, | products Of our farms for tho manu-
) iuclirsd articles o. other countries
. And In making this exchange, whn
possible objection n thoro 10 mkini
from Wales s20. 100000 worth oil W
p plates a ycarf
} II We bus our tin plates from Vale
i We could pay for tho years deman''
b with 20,OO10O0 bushels Of wheat !
> wheat were dollar a bushol. But
5 We make our tin plates In this c0unir
D under protection u 2.2 cents per poun'
II will require lBiW0QW bushels ~, IVA ~,
= Of wheat 70 pay the bill, or 5b.OOW
T. Z hMMlNfNh AfAHNf|NA VI sffHH'fH
b our tin plate abroad.
; The manufacture o. Tin plates In mi
= country Il conceded by all 20 b. an un
i profitable industry: AN Industry Whlol
y can not exist without goyernmen
bounty or high protection tarih o. 2
: cents a pound upon foreign tin plhiei
y That either the government or N
+ consumers Of tin plates must pay tlo
! OO0. 600 every year moro than woui
otherwise be- required Ia order 70 hay
our annual supply Of Tin piates man,
featured IN this country. slb,WOw
o. bounty on $50. 900. 600 product u payin
= pretty dearly for Ao-called protection
4 | American industry.
d hut let us see how out tariff monopolie
i have succeed In getting and iosterin
/ thig new industry. a Rovernmel
: agent had been appointed By the seer
!. tary N the treasury 70 look after an
r REPORT all facts rotating 70 this infan
4 ihis poor founding which GOvernf
Mckinley has placed on the DOORSTEP
Of the treasury department As n
h government must support this infant
, was necessary 70 appoint a guardian !.
4 Il aud one Ira Aver got the Job, u
! has submitted a report for the hscl