The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-09-13


( can beginners ont of the business, and
when this was accomplished again
made their own prices
The official returns to the treasury
department of the production of tin
and terne plates in the United States
during the last fiscal year show n
total production of IS. 240. $50 pounds;
! and a comparison of the first quarter,
| S26. 922 pounds, with the last, 5000, 600
pounds, shows the rapid development
of the industry. Over 5000. 600
pounds since the last quarter were
/. made from American black plates, the
remainder from foreign plates Mr..
Ayre, the treasury agent in charge.
estimates, as the result Of careful in.
quiry, that the production Of the
current year will be 100, 900. 900 pounds.
and that by the end of the year our
production will be at the rate Of 200,.
200, 600 pounds per annum.
A Word to Workingmen.
Igreatly regret that all employers
Ut labor are not just and considerate,
and that capital sometimes takes too
large q share of the profits. But do
not see that those evils will be amel-
iorated by tariff policy, the first nee
essary effect of which is a severe wage
cut, and second, large dimunitiOn Of
the aggregate amount OF work to be
lone in this country.
If the injustice of his employer
| tempts the workman to strike back ne
should be very sure that his blow does
not fall upon his own head or upon his
| wife and children. The workmen in
| our great industries are, as body, re-
| markably intelligent. and are lovers
| Of home and country. They may be
| aroused by injustice, or what seems to
them to be such, or to be led for the
| moment by others into acts of passion;
| out they will settle tn Tariff contest
in the calm light of their November
| iresides, 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 adj
vocate Of protective tariff claims that il
is able OF itself To- maintain q uniform
rate of wages-without regard to fuc-
tuations in the supply of and demand
fjr the products of labor-but it Is
confidently claimed that protective
duties strongly lead to hold up wages
i
duction to the European scale.
The Free List.
Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our
adversaries 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 enlarge.
ment of the free list During the last
\ North of
chandise, or SIS. 35 per cent of our total
importations. came in free 1.-THE largest
percentage in our history, while in
1889 the percentage Of free importa-
tons was only 34.42 per cent The
placing Of sugar upon the free list has
saved to the consumer in duties. in fif.
,een months, after paying the boun-
ties provided for, ss7, 900. 600. This re-
lief has been substantially felt in
every household upon every Satur-
days purchase of the workingm en-.
Bt-Metalism.
The resolution of the convention in
favor of bi.metallism declares, think.
the true and necessary conditions of q
movement that has. upon these lines,
my cordial adherence and support
am thoroughly convinced that
/, the free coinage of silver
ut such ratio to gold as will
maintain the equality in their COM
mercial uses Of the tho coined dollars
would cOnduce to the prosperity of all
the great commercial nations of the
word. The one essential condition is
that these dollars shall have and retain
the same acceptability and value in all
/ commercial transactions.
The president next refers to the
recommendations in his last message
to congress regarding a constitutional
amendment to secure fair apportion-
MEET and free elections, and makes an
appeal for election legislation upon
absolutely non-partisan lines,
and concludes thus: Il shall again
! urge upon congress that provision he
made for the appointment OF q nom
| partisan commission to consider the
subject of appointments and cleo
, tions, in their relation to the choice Of
federal officers
Civil Service Law.
OF the civil service law the president
says: 1t has been enforced with
; vigorous impartiality. There has been
no partisan juggling with the law in
/ any of the departments OF the bureaus,
! as had before happened--but appoint
ments to the classified service have
been made impartially from the
J eligible lists
The president then refers to the
work of the state and agricul-
tural departments in securing tho
/ removal of restrictions upon American
pork in foreign countries, which
he says was the result of the legisla-
- TN1o
result has been not only to sustai n
prices. by providing new markets for
our surplus, but to add fifty cents per
100 pounds to the market value of the
| inspected meats
Nicaragua Canal
In regard to the Nicaragua canal the
president says: II have often ex-
pressed my opinion of the value of the
Nicaraga ship canal to our commerce
and to our navy. The project is not
! one of convenience but of necessity.