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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
CHIEF OF FRAUDS.
The AMERICAN WORKMAN GETS NO
BENEFIT from TIN PLATE.

american" Tin Plate Made OF Imported
E1aek Sheets. Coated with Imported
Tin hy Imported Labor by the Use Of
Imported Machinery.
There are several other bigger frauds,
when amounts are considered. that are
being worked ON the American people
than the lin plate fraud: but this one IS
pre-eminent when the percentage of
frauds to the dollar is taken into ac-
count 1t matters but little from what
point OF view the subject is approached.
The consumer is losing from $l5, ,000, 900
to SEQ. GEO, 900 year, with no compensa-
ton at present and no hopes of any in
the future; the American workingman
is getting no benefit from the small tin
plate, or rather tin coating. establish
ments that are temporarily located here,
because the only labor that receives
more than ordinary day wages is i'm
ported; the capitalist who invests in
this business IS likely to lose money be-
cause the high price Of steel or "blaciz''
sheets due TO the dutyl prevents the
prosperity of the industry here until we
can import plates free of duty or can
roll them here as cheaply as they are
rolled in Europe. Even the politicians
viii find that this industry has done
them more harm than good. 1t is said
that some of them are already sorry
that they stalxed so much ON it and made
such glowing promises.
The Hon. Thomas l.. Bunting said in
congress June 16: ..The tin plate indus
try as now developed and put on record
is finishing shop for Welsh consign-
ments of cold rolled, picked and an
nealed steel plates. 1t is adding to this
Welsh material twenty-five cents of
Welsh labor through the use of Welsh
machinery for each box of tin plate. It
is simply putting on a coat of paint on
the finished product, with Australian
paint and a Welsh brush and by a
Welsh painter. Up to date, with but
few exceptions, the tin plate industry of
this country has but one ingredient in
its composition which is truly Ameri-
can, viz, domestic atmosphere. And
this is the reason why in the burning of
the factory over ut Philadelphia belong
ing to the N. & G.. Taylor company there
was not an entire destruction and loss
because the atmosphere was rescuedlp
If any one thinks that American tin
plate, SO called, is made from American
black sheets, let him read the evidence
presented by the Hon. Benjamin F.
Siively in the house on June 10. Mr..
Shively had prepared for him by the
chief of the bureau of statistics state
ments showing the imports of iron and
steel sheets, such as are commonly used
for making tin and terne plate. Itshould
be remembered that these plates consri-
tute about nine-tenths of the weight and
also nine-tenths of the value of tin and
terne plates. The statistics of imports
were as follows:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

WIN Have TO Right Both East and west.
Governor Fifer says that Illinois VIII
be the battle ground OF this campaign.
The same thing is said of every other
western state by other Republican
prophets. The inference seems to be
that the party of Harrison and Quay
must fight for its life all along the line.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

Ex-senator Warner Miller is credited
with the intention to raise a sufficient
sum of money for the purchase of a
medal to be presented to Appraiser Coop
er, in recognition of the fact that Mr..
Cooper was the one prominent employee
of the present administration who did
not go to Minneapolis Louis Re
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

While the iron workers are idle. the
entire tariff ON iron can be removed.
All Carnegie wants is enough to cover
the difference IN wages, and as he is
paying no wages he needs no tariff.
Sees-Kansas City Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
ReckIes. nepnbI,eanI,,,

The helplessness Of the governor OF
Idaho in the presence of the rioffnR
miners comes as a new illustration Of
the political recklessness OF the Repub-
hcan party IN admitting such states to
the Union.-New York Evening Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

Perhaps Captain Bob Pinkerton could
be persuaded to accept the vacant chair
manship Of the Republican ational
committee The captain has neces-
sary ..mailed hand -"-Albar Argus.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
rho Repubiieans nespon,IbIe.

The Republican Fifty-frst congress
and the Republican executive are chief
~ responsible for the enormous increase
of the pension appropriations. Buffalo
Courier.
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The ariiiennium Approacbinr.

With the cost of living reduced under
the Mckinley law, as shown by Senator
Aldrich, and the cost of dying increased
by the Funeral Directors trust, what
more could the tax ridden citizen rea-
sonably desire?- PHILADELPHIA Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

What is In manner That section Of
Kentucky which produced Abraham
Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Roger @. Mills
and Adlai Stevenson is locally known az
the ssPennyrile deestrict. kansas CITY
Star
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

It Seems to Have Been Forgotten.
In the regulation of protective tariffs
the item of human nature should always
be taken into account.-LouisyilIe Cou-
rier-Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
A Mighty Force d 1rovin~.

The god of destiny is surely for the
Democratic ticket. Every days events
but adds momentum to the landslide
that Is gathering for Cleveland and Ste
yenson--Nashville American.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

Why do manufacturing monopolies
insist, plead, pray and pay for high tar
iff legislation if, as claimed, it cheapens
their products to the consumer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06

tfale OF ROunQSs u. IS.
duty; thinner than product
Year ending per y. wire gauge. plate.
June Tune ", 80 isSo, ,sSo --....i55 ssds s
june 30. 1891; :.....Ic5 i.soa,5ss ..:...=
sept issi 30 lssI. saai .......I.G5 $4,000 ascsa
Dec. 81, 1s91........1.65 954,24l 14no.ssI
March 81, 1892. LES 3.657,703 30Of,Os7
Commenting upon this table Mr..
Shively said: Every pound of black
plates noted in this table is of the proper
gauge and general character for tin and
terne plates. The plates noted are ready
TO receive the coat of tin or tin and lead.
The normal importation and consump-
ton of these plates prior to the passage
of the act of 1890 is shown by the statis-
tics for the fiscal years 1899 and 1890 re-
spectively." For comparison the prod
uct of American. tin plate as reported
by the special agent of the treasury de-
partment has been given in the last coll
uinn. Previous to the quarter ending
Sept. 30, 1891, tin and terne plates were
not made here in commercial quantities.
though it is evident from the imports of
black sheets just previous to this time
that preparations We're being made to es-
tablish this now famous American"
industry.
Mr.. Shively says: ''These statistics, all
of which are official, show that the
American production of tin and terne
plates for the three-quarters ending
March 81 was 5,240, $50 pounds, while
the importations of black plates for
the same. period was 5,4fs, s,552 pounds.
Moreover, it must be remembered that
the ], 1888, $50 pounds of black sheets i'm
ported during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1891, remain unaccounted for.
AS is shown by the importations for
1889 and 1890, the consumption of inn
ported black plates In this country prior
to the passage of the act of 1890 did not
average over 5000 pounds per annufn.
Small amounts of these plates have been
for years used in the manufacture of
signs and a few other articles It is
perfectly apparent that the bulk of the
/ 1889, $50 pounds was imported for other
purposes. The real fact is that from the
time the act of 1890 went on the statute
book to March 81, 1892, there was i'm
ported into the United States 6,75S, IA
pounds of black plates, and there was
made :, ,240, $50 pounds of what the treas
ury department construes to be tin and
terne plates produced in the United
States, 50 that after making ample al
lowance for all the imported black
plates consumed IN this country for
other purposes we have left over ], ,OO0,-
600 pounds to coat with tin and return
to the treasury department at the end of
the present quarter as tin plate pro-
duced in the United States'1
This, then, is the kind of an industry.
that protection is trying to domesticate
and put ON exhibition here. The ami
mails in Barnum's circus are as much
American as IS this industry and far
more useful for exhibition purposes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
WHOLESALE BUYERS and DEALERS

We still selling the popular reliable
and CANDEE RTBBER BOOTS SHOES and TENNIS SHOES
There better goods e in this world than she
Boots and Candee Rubbes ,ohy
but send for discounts catalogues appic
ton by card If you looking your
and customers interests you will buy Special pr
buyers of
the FALL RUSH. samples quote you
ossamer Rubber and Mackntosh Clothing for boys
and Misses Prices LOW GOOD qualities better
We illustrate o late shapes .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-06
NEW FLOUR
FEED STORE!
C. 81. WRAY,
toPpos1rE couRr HOUSES

OPPOSITE COURT noUsEo
DESIRES to inform the public that he
IL has opened Flour nd Feed Store
in the room adjoining the REGISTER of
fee. where he will keep on hand at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES, the
Best Brands of Flour; also Corn
Meal, Chop Feed, Bran, Shorts,
Corn, Oats, Hay, Straw, &c.
Orders Promptly Filled and
Goods Delivered Free.
am also prepared to furnish Coal in
any quantities, and respectfully solicit
your orders G. E. WRAY.
The morning call., 1892-11-22

There is little doubt that financial crash
"a imminent in Chin atown.
The Chinese tscitly admit &c, and the
houses downtown doing the he aviest busi-
ness with Chinese firms expect it almost
any day and are collecting UP closely.
The causes W hich will suit in the failure
or retirement from business of the maj GRITTY
city and State can be briefly enumerated.
The registrati IN act and the certainty OF
deportation of those who are Rmensble to
that law unless they register has caused
tremend o US emIg ratiOn of Chinese.
The restriction act, which is being more
strictly enforced than ever before, has pre-
vented the immigration of Celestials ex-
cept In very small numbers.
The efforts Of the police In suppressing
the lotteries and gambling games, In which
many Of the Chinese merchants were pecu-
niariIy interested. has deprived them OF a
revenue upon which they relied when their
business failed to pay, and which kept the
Six Companies-the most powerful and
wealthy Organization of its kind in the
worid-suppiied with funds to help their
distressed members
II is not at all unlikely that when the
Chinese new year arrives the Six Compa-
mics viii disband and fully half the Chinese
merchants quit business.
The following interviews show the state
of feeling Of the Chinese business men anu
indicate that the coming financial storm Is
not far off
The morning call., 1892-11-22

the manager said he could supply 1000 white
laborers in forty eight hours while il would
be impossible to obtain more than twenty
five or thirty Chinese in the same time.
There are very few Chinese hunting
work. while there are hundreds of white
men hanging around.
The Cbinaman leaves his name at the
employment Office, and if person wants
him they can go and hunt him. He is gen.
orally found in some dark hole In dark
munion with his beloved opium Pie.
All of them are "well fixed" and don't
seem to care whether they go 10 work or
not. They know they have but to ask for
1t TO get 1t, and are not going to look
around as long as they have any money.
Cinnamon have been in great demand in
Fresno County during the past season, and
the greater number that have been en-
ployed picking grapes will remain on the
ranches in some other capacity at good
wages.
In the Alaska fish-canneries Chinese have
also been very scarce, and efforts were made
by the owners to keep many Of them there
during the winter. But the Chinamen would
not stand the cold weather and came home.
1t is hardly likely that any of them can be
induced to go back next season, as they can
get much better wages here.
Their places, however, can be filed by
white men. the only difference being that
they will want more wages than the Chinese
have been getting.
IL Is the same thing in all the work the
Chinese have been doing. They cannot be
obtained. for they are leaving the country.
The morning call., 1892-11-22

before a new and better condition Of things
Is brought about with farm help. even
though they have now to pay better wages.
"People say. why don't we get immigrants
TO come here or men from the Eastern States
TO fill up the depopulation caused by the
Chinese exodus.
Il went East In 1890, and made II a nojnt
of finding out why people have a reluctance
to come TO this State. Those talked with
said: WHAT'S the use of going there? The
country Is overrun with Chinese and we
couldn't get work. / told them they were
entirely mistaken; that the Chinese were
leaving the State fast. and that in conse-
quence railway and canal construction was
practically at standstill. They replied:
It's all very well for you to say that; you
are Chinese lawyer; but your newspapers
tell different story
81 could not convince them of their error.
and you see where the blame rests.
at may be said that because am an
attorney for the Chinese that am taking a
one-sided view Of matters; but am actu-
ated with no other desire than to state what
know and believe to be facts.
'When / was In HonG-Kong recently I
found that the native merchants all had the
same story to tell that business with the
United States was very dull and that they
would have to look somewhere else.
81 believe that If treaty is arranged be-
tween China and Mexico that there will be
an immense influx Of Chinese to that conn
try.
Now that we are driving out the Chinese
we must do something to bring people into
the State. 1t is. In my opinion, all nom
The morning call., 1892-11-22
AT THE CITY THEATEPS.
The Mobiles at the Grand-A Crowd at
the Tiyoii.

the lIN0iI.
Mr.. Milton Mobiles opened his season at
the Grand Opera-house to a large attend
ance with enc of his own melodramas.
From Sire to Son." 1t is strongly dramatic.
Mr.. Mobiles, we understand, has organized
his company with an especial view to the
production of his new comedy; "A Son of
Thespis," which we will see later, but. In
the mean time, his earlier productions
will have full justice done them
by the people he has engaged.
The play produced last evening is
an original American one, in four acts. and
is now enjoying its sixth successful season.
Ii is purely Californian in ali its ethics as
its second title is I'm the Shadow OF Mount
Shasta" We have the gambler that Bret
Harte loves to write about and the mining
CHANGES where million of dollars pivoted
on the Investment of one hundred cents.
Milton MOBILES himself as Alfred Armi-
tage. under the assumed name OF
John Oakley, made capital play, and
Miss DolIle MOBILES as the wife aud
daughter of Armitage, has much improved
as an actress smce she was last seen lin
these parts" She has a pretty voice too.
and sang an old Irish ballad in a way that
charmed the audience. Generally, the piece
was we'll cast. Frank Drumeir's Jonas
Hardy, gambler of the Bret Harte school.
was strongly sustained, as was also Peter
Grimes by Mr.. l.. T. Howard-doacon, post
master aud express agent of Yuba The
melodrama was beautifully staged. and will
be repeated this evening. Tie prices of
admission to these entertainments are at the
popular rates, ranging from 81 down 10 25
cents,
The morning call., 1892-11-22

"Lat me send you 10 a man who has been
In business here for more than twenty years.
who is thoroughly famil ar with the stu
alton and much more free to talk than am.
my position here imposes certain re-
straiDts upon me. dealing, as the Six Com
panies does, with the confidential business
of all the Chinese firms and individuals on
this coast"
Armed with q letter to Wing Wah the
reporter found him in a little room on WASH
ington street. near Dupont. where he was
almost hidden by the Chinese account-books
piled around him. Here and there were
counters such as the Chinese use for calcu-
lation. while brushes, blocks of India ink
and all the other paraphernalia of a Chi
nese counting-room covered the desk at
which he sat.
In row of pigeon-holes fixed against two
sides of the room thousands of documents,
neatly folded, were fled away, and on a
little table were the scales for weighing
mail matter. copies of the United States
postal laws and other books OF reference.
Wing Wah is. in short, sort of Chinese
clearing house all by himself.
Wing is a man long past the middle age of
life and there were many grey hairs to be
seem in his neatly braided queue.
He was richly dressed and wore q pair
Of gold-bound spectacles, over which he
looked in surprise as the reporter entered
his little den and picked his way among
the books and desks to where Ying was
sitting.
Not many white men have ever called
upon Ying
He is not easy OF access and bis room is
hard TO find unless you know exactly where
20 look for it.
Taking Tones letter. he read it carefully
and then asked the newspaper man to take
stool, for OF chairs there were none
For minute or two Ying seemed to be
pon1ering over the information contained
In the letter OF introduction and then in ex-
cellent English he said:
ut is useless TO deny that a crisis In the
financial affairs OF the Chinese business
men is near at hand.
I'm order to fully understand the situation
you must FIRST understand the manner in
which the business structure of the Chinese
people is made up.
First OF all the business is done by fami-
lies. By that l mean that members of the
Wo family or Chong family come here and
start In business. Not all in one store or
In one line Of business, but the various
members Of the family take up the branches
OF trade with which they are most familiar
or best fitted for in China.
For Instance. Wo Chong is a tailor while
fe Chong is general merchant.
ihese men bring their capital with them
from China and there the great head of the
house resides. Remember am now SNEAK.
Ing of the wealthy.
They do business merely as branches
the house 10 China sending them goods and
money and receiving in return such goods
rs can be handled in China, which their
houses buy here. and certain percentage
Of the profits of the business.
1.-THE firms located In the cities then es.
tablish branches In various parts of the
State. the sub-branches dealing with the
houses here and receiving their goods from
The morning call., 1892-11-22
WILL WEAR 4 TOILET

vacant stores, both wholesale and retail.
Some Of the leading wholesale houses are
among the number.
1T Is not so very long ago that Chinese
merchants used t. come to me and offer me
handsome fee 10 procure a store for them.
had then TO hustle to get one and had to
use all my persuasive arts upon the owners
Now, instead OF having to run after the
owners the owners are glad to come TO me.
There are three stores on Commercial street
which used to bring in a rental of 5000 a
year: now they can be got for $500.
You can understand what effect IL will
have upon real estate when Chinatown Is
practically depopulated unless we have an
influx of immigration to fill up the yacan-
eies.
Il. is going to be serious thing. and the
financial crash that is coming about the
Chinese new year time among the Chinese
will startle the city.
"The exclusion act worked strongly
enough, but the Geary bill has put on the
finishing touch. III Its object was to drive
the Chinese out of the country il is doing its
work we'll"
The morning call., 1892-11-22
A Popular Mouchoir.

"The Queens Lace Handkerchief
crowded the Tivoli to Its doors. and the per.
formance went off with an esprit that made
the audience equally contented &c sit or
stand so long as they had an opportunity to
enjoy the music. Ferdinand Schuetz dis
tinsuished himself as Cervantes. the
poet, particularly in tn, opening song
and chorus, Come on. come onW
and In the couplet at the opening Of the
second act. "Where dwelIs the wild rose"
The closing song. "When the bullfight calls.
o-yo." was rendered with great spirit. Miss
Oracle Plaisted was Donna Irene. and sung
her music with her usual neatness of ex-
preston, especially the aria, This specj-
men abnormal see." Miss Lizzie AMMAN
dale. as Queen Isabella, had one pretentious
number, I've passed my seventeenth
birthday" which she emphasized in splendid
style. Phil Branson's "Truffle song," as
the King. was applauded. as was also Ferris
Hartman's don Sanchez SIN the night
with tuheful lutestring." 1t WAS a capital
performance throughout.
The morning call., 1892-11-22

but possibly the proportion is greater in the
interior.
1.-THE capital involved must be very great.
but do not know how it is possible TO OBJ
tain reliable information as to the amount.
"Has the Geary act accelerated the exc
dus? Why, of course il has. BY the last
steamer between 600 and 700 Chinese left
for their native country and only sixteen
arrived. Formerly they used TO come here
in hundreds. now 1t has dwinded down TO
sixteen, forty, and like numbers.
ION Commercial and Sacramento Streets
where the leading wholesale houses are Sit
uated. there ale nearly one-half of the
stores vacant and the owners are willing to
rent them for what they can get. Three OF
them are now occupied a. houses Of prosti-
tuition.
''Most of the wholesale merchants are
not doing any business, but are simply col
lecing their outstanding accounts, and when
they are all in they will clear out. / am
prepared to say that between now and the
Chinese New Year half of those doing bust
ness now will have retired aud left the
country.
docs this exodus Of the Chinese have
any effect upon the general depression In
business? Why, certainly it does TO a very
cAttHbs ANY Ludu uu-
derstand that
Consider the number OF Chinese en-
ployed in railway and canal construction.
in orchards and vineyards and on farms.
All the money earned by them found its
way to this city and was distributed among
our different business houses.
Nearly half of these Chinese laborers
have left the country, and there has been
no white labor TO take their places.
sin 1882 there were about 10000 Chinese
In Chinatown; now there are not more than
10000, il even that number That was the
year of tho famous lockout in the cigar
trade, during which 1 got thorough in
sight into the Chinese question.
AT That time there were between COCO
and 1000 Chinese cigar makers In the city
The total amount OF domestic cigars manu.
featured here was then between one hundred
and ten millions and one hundred ana fifteen
millions annually.
1.-THE local consumption was about thirty
five millions of domestic and imported
cigars, and we were able 10 export to the
Western and Eastern States between eighty
and ninety millions of cigars. No wonder
our cigar manufacturers became wealthy.
What is the position OF affairs to-day I?
There are not more than 1000 Chinese en-