The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-20
TARIFF NOT A TAX
Prices of Tin Plate, Under the
Mckinley Law, a Study.
HOW THE new SYSTEM WORKS.
The poor Mans Dinner Pair
Cheaper Than Ever--creatiuE an
Observation-Disclosures Manufactures
Now in tho Countrywide Tariff
Continues to Bother the English
People,


The mckinley tariff act" continues
to bother the English people. You can
not pick up an English newspaper with
out finding soma paragraph which tells
Of decrease in British trade or manu-.
facture by reason OF the increased pro
duction in the United States Of various
commodities. Unwilling OF the polit.
ical bearing OF that fact in this country,
these British journals state frankly
that the detection is due to the opera
ton in America OF the Mckinley tariff
act The London Morning Post, of Au-
gust 20, says, under the caption, "rhe
Welsh Tin Plate Trade:"
On Saturday several additional proprietor.
connected With the Welsh tin plate. trade closed
their works In consequence vi the depression ~
the British trade, caused by tue operations o.
the Mckinley tariff act. The mills arc stopped
at about slxty.four tin plate works In South
Wales. aud It is estimated that upwards OF ten
thousand worEmen are thrown out OF employ
ment a large number oil operatives win iheli
families, sailed on Saturday for the United
States, where new mills are now being erected
by Welsh proprletor.
There has been formulated, during all
the discussion OF the tin plate question
as affected by the Mckinley act, no more
precise presentation OF the entire mat
ter than that put forth by n. K G. lay
lor Company, OF Philadelphia, in cir
cular recently sent out. 1t corroborates,
with an indisputable array OF figures,
the testimony embodied in the para
graph from the London Poland such
paragraphs are found in great number
In many British journals.
"When america commenced to make
tin plate" says the circular, prices in
Great Britain dropped to point never
reached before. Then comes table
showing the comparison in value. The
intelligent voter should scan this. The
average value OF tin plate at it's highest
point during the last twenty-nine years
has been 100 per cent higher than it is
to-day in1S63 it was l22 per cent higher.
A table of the values OF tin plate at
the highest point reached each year
since 1858, compared with the price to-
day, shows that for sixteen years 1t was
over $50 per cent higher on an average,
Nlu VIC BNAASA hAAS
average is 100 per cent higher.
So long as Great Britain had a mo-
nopoly Of the tin plate industry there
was no regular decrease in the price OF
the product. Whatever variation &C.
curred-and it might be up or down
depended solely upon British elements
The American consumer had nothing
to do with the case. In 1864 it had
amounted to l20 per cent higher than
it is to-day, dropping back in 1860, rose
again in 1866, and in lS67-6S- 1910 was
below the mark at which it stood in the
time OF our war In 1872 the price of
tin plate was 266 per cent higher than
at the present time. 1t gravltated to
So per cent higher in 1875, then
mounted again, and since has been,
with some variations, dropping. The
lowest values upon TIN plate, as shown
by the schedule, corroborate that testi'
mony. In 1868 the low price OF tin
plate was 90 per cent higher than it is
to-day. II ranged up and down the
scale until in 1886 it reached point g
per cent above that OF the present price.
The average low price OF tin plate dur
lug lun bSVA w HpA
cent above the present price.
The extra price per ton charged by
foreign manufacturers for tin plate at
the highest price reached each year
since 1865 above the price OF to-day
shows a corresponding range And the
extra price above the price OF to-day has
never sunk lower than 50 Is, in 1880
and has sometimes risen into the neigh
borhood OF 500
There are ninety-seven makers OF tin
plate within the small area OF Great
Britain. and 10000, 900 consumers in the
United States. From the beginning the
people OF this country have been com.
PEELED to pay whatever prices seemed
right and proper in the eyes OF the
British manufacturer. In addition to
that there was vexatious delay in OBJ
tanning supplies,
Here again the results OF tho Me-
Kinley act begin TO speak for them
selves, Great Britain has been manu-
featuring tin plate since 1920. In those
liz years ninety-seven manufactures
have been established and maintained.
Now, it seems by the paragraph from
tho London Pos, they are, IN conse.
quence of the Mckinley act, ceasing
from operation. The Tin workmen Of
Wales are setting sail for the United
States, which proposes, under the be-
neicent influences OF a protective tar.
itf, to furnish tin plate for itself and
afford employment to its own work
men. It is u salient fact that while
Great Britain in liz years has reached
a maximum of ninety-seyen tin plate
factories, the United States, within a
year Of experience, has twenty-six.