St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-06
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But in spite Of the doubts raised by the
elections of 1899, and of the Vaccinations of
the foreign producers to maintain their mo-
nopoly, the tin-plate industry has been estab-
lished in the United States, and the alliance
between the Welsh producers and the Dem
ocratic party for its destruction will not sue
coed.
Here the president quotes the report of the
treasury department regarding the amount
of TN and terne plate produced in the United
States the last fiscal year, as published short
time ago.
Another industry that has been practically
created by the Mckinley bill is the making of
pearl buttons. Few articles coming to US
from abroad were so distinctly the product
OF starvation wages.
But without unduly extending this letter, I
cannot follow in detail the influence of the
tariff law of 1890. 1t has transplanted sew
eral important industries and established
them here, and has revived or enlarged all
Others The act gives to the miners protec
lion against foreign silver bearing lead ores,
great many industries Of the Rocky mountain
states. and to Wool growers protection to
their fleece and disastrous decline.
The house OF representatives at Its last ses-
sion passed bills placing wool upon the
free list. People of the West will know how
destructive to their prosperity these measures
would be. The West we'll know how neces-
sary TO their prosperity these measures will be
x
many thousands of American men and
women, and will each year give employment
to increasing thousands. Its repeal will
throw thousands out OF employment and
give work to others only at reduced wages
The appeals of the free trader TO the work
ingman are largely addressed to his prejudice
or TO his passion and not intrequently com.
munistic.
employer and seeks To communicate this rage
to the employe. / regret that all employers
OF labor are not just and considerate and that
capital sometimes takes too large share of
the profits. But do not see that these evils
will be ameliorated by tariff policy. the first
necessary effect of which, is a severe wage
cut, and the second large dminution of the
aggregate amount of work 10 be done in this
country.
If the injustice OF his employer tempts the
workman TO strike back, he should be very
sure that his blow does not fall upon his own
head or upon his wife or children. The
Workmen IN our great industries are as
body remarkably intelligent and are lovers of
home and country. They NAV be reused by
injustice or what seems to them to be such,
or be led for the moment by others into acts
OF passion, but they will settle the tariff con-
test in the calm light of their November fire.
sides and with sole reference to the prosper
ity 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 it is able of itself to main
tain uniform rate of wages without regard
to fluctuations in the supply and demand for
the products of labor. but 1t is confidently
claimed that protective duties strongly tend
to hold up wages and are the only barrier
against reduction to the European scale.
The Southern states have had a liberal par
ticipation i'll the benefits of the tariff laws,
and though their reports have generally OPP
posed the protection policy, rejoice that
their sugar. rice. coal ores, iron fruits, cot
ton cloths and other products have not been
left to the fate which their votes would have
brought upon them.