The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-11


| one third of all the tin that we use in SIX
wears in the United States, the law shall
| be repealed Now is not that fair? Ihat
| is an industry worth having, everybody
admits. Six years is not long time IN
| which to transfer an enormous industry
| like that from one country to another.
| Our bill agreed that if it was not trans
| ferred, at least one-third of it, in SIX
| years the law itself should be repealed.
| That should be the end of it and the ex
pertinent should be given up, Now
treasury agents Were d agp0ln Reduce
within six years one-third of what we
should use. We use about 600 million
| pounds of tin q year. The last report OF
| the treasury agents show that there are
| today forty establishments in the United
States making tin. 1t shows that at the
end of the year. with the production
that is now going on increasing as it has
| increased, we shall have produced 275
million pounds of tin in this country In
year. Applause,] 1t has complied
with the law in enc year, and II it has
complied with the law in one year, before
the six years are gone that magnificent
industry will be transferred from Wales
to the United States, and we will pay our
| % millions of dollars year for its man
ufacture to our own people. But says the
| cautious Democratic friend, it has made
| tin cost more. Don't you remember
| those fearful pictures which they drew
| in that campaign which followed the
enactment of the Mckinley bill into a
law? 1t was the most curious campaign
l ever saw. The Mckinley bill had just
| become law when the campaign was
| opened. There was
No Let or Hinderance to Lying.
not bit. A man could say what he
pleased. Goods all over the country
were terribly low. Merchants every
where thought it was splendid oppor-
tunity to mark up til cir goods and they
did SO. That made about every CONNER
cial traveller in the United States a pow
erful advocate against the Mckinley Dill
Ia voice; ''that' fact''). 1t made about
every m erchant in this country power
full advocate against that bill. 1t made
almost every woman!a tree trader. NOW
| how? The good woman will 60 down
town and 90 into one of lyour stores and
say II want to buy a piece OF cotton
| CLOTH 'sYes, well, cotton cloth is a IA
of a cent higher than it was She
would ask sscotton cloth a IA cent
higher, why?'' The answer would
be s'whv, the Mckinley bill"
IT was true that the Mckinley bill had
reduced the duty on cotton cloth, but
that didn't make any difference; cotton
cloth has gone up and it was the McKln-
lev bill that did it. The woman went
home at once to her husband. She dldn t
say
"Damn that Mckinley Bill"
but she thought it. Laughter I say
it went all over this country and the cy-
clone came, and the Democratic party
had majority of 14O in the next House.
You remember what they said about the
fearful tax on tin ware. You know how
they pictured the poor laboring man tax
ing his tin pail and going to his work.
That tin pail was taxed enormously. ]
heard Democratic speaker the other
day and was called upon to reply to him.
He actually started in with the old and
exploded theory that duty is tax.
theory which was exploded more
than forty years ago. Why, Cleveland
that duty is tax always paid by the
consumer. Well, now, Cleveland didn't
, know any better. Laughter.] That
, was the fundamental doctrine of free
, trade declared by the Golden Club of
, England. Cleveland rolled that over his
:
, Thought that he had made discovery.
This Democrat went on talking about a
| duty being tax. Why, / have heard it
, so long it has got to be familiar song;
, it is much more familiar than any songIl
know Of have heard Sam Cox draw a
horrible picture of the poor man in
, America. | have heard him say, Look
, at the poor man. He crawls in between
his blankets that are taxed, he spreads
over him a coverlet that is taxed, 1T is on
bedstead that is taxed, he gets up in
: the morning and puts on his boots that
y are taxed, he puts on his pantaloons
that is taxed, he goes down
to his breakfast table and the table linen
/, is taxed, and the knife he eats with is
r taxed and the fork that he eats with is
+ taxed, his tea is taxed, he goes out into
) the yard, he didn't say the yard was
r taxed. but he strikes a match which is
i taxed to light his pipe, and he smokes
: | his tobacco which is taxed. / have heard
, 4 it over and over again. In the last cam
, paign no song was sung with such siren
: voice as this on the
Increased Cost of Tinware.
Every firm that put up Holsters or corn
had to pay it; every man who put up sar.
dimes and called them French sardines
[laughterl had to pay it, and so all
through we had got to pay this horrible
tax. What is the fact? There is not
7 man or woman, nor child in the United
f States who has paid one hundredth OF
one mill of increase on any manner or
kind of tin ware from the day the Nc
, Kinley bill became law down to the
: present time. There was a bit of in
; crease to the wholesalers admit, but
: the margin between the wholesaler
. and retailer was so large that they never
! undertook to divide their little bit of in
! crease amongst the consumers and they
' never did.
The speaker said that he believed that
} in less than five years the people would
5 be able to purchase all goods manufao-
} tured from tin at price lower than ever
! known before, and continuing said.
? NOW I ask you intelligent Republicans,
, how many American citizens can believe
) that the Democratic Party is right and
' that we are wrong? Is it not better to
make ward of cloth here than to