Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-15
BEATS THE BRITISH.
The Effects of the Mckinley
Tariff Law on England's
Manufacturers
MORE EVIDENT EACH DAY.
The English Press Unable to Hide Its
Chagrin Over Results.
GREAT HEAPS OF VITUPERATION
Tiled on the Head of President Harrison
and other Americans
FOR THE PROTECTION THAT PROTECTS

OH upon Ine DTlllSH manufacturers, NELL
toned in yesterdays kilograms to THE
DISPATCH. The railing of the British
press and the vituperation upon the head Of
Mr. Mckinley are cited as the best test oil
money TO the efficacy of the Mckinley
measure in preserving the American mar
kets for American manufacturers The cir
cular is as follows:
What has the Mckinley act done tor
British manufacturers" The best answer to
the question, the best testimony to the
efficacy Of the Mckinley measure in pre-
serving the American market for such
manufactures as Americans can produce as
we'll or better than anybody else in the
world, is :oGnd in the perpetual railings of
the British press, the vituperation which it
heaps upon the head of Mr.. Mckinley and
the Republicans, its cry tor the repeal of
the act and its consequent avowed desire for
the triumph OF Mr. Cleveland in the coming
election.
English newspapers speak with a degrSe
of trankness and volume of misinforma-
tion and misunderstanding which are the
more ludlclous by reason of the vicious
energy with which they are delivered. At
the same time, they try to glaze over the
matter, to coat the pill, to smile and make
the best of it. The facts, however, are too
plain to be overlooked. Almost every issue
OF almost every newspaper tells with ill-con-
ceaied chagrln some new story OF enbarrass-
ment to British trade caused bv Mckinley.
Eloquent of Woe and Wrath.
The Republican National Committee is
in receipt of an enormous quantity of clip
pings from British journals. eloquent of
woe and wrath. The lion endeayors not to
howl, but his tail has, beyond question,
been vigorously twisted aud the whine is
audible enough. The Midland Egeping Neaus,
published at Wolverhampton, says:
A Yorkshire firm. scarcely less well
known than that OF Sir Titus Salt have de-
termined not to await the calamity that has
fallen upon Saltaire. They are in much the
same way of business as the Salts, manu-
featuring plushes, astrachans, rugs and
shawls. Like tine great Saltaire house, they
have been heavily hit by the Mckinley tar
IN few years ago they were in the habit
OF doing a business with the United States
which turned over at least f209 600 year.
The Mckinley tariff has had the effect oi re-
ducing their American business by 80 per
cent. They have resolved to close their
1actorles in Yorkshire, one of which has
been in uninterrupted oparation TOR 40
Eears, and begin again in the United States
They have selected jamestown for their
new home. and are building their factories,
capable, like the English mill and its
branches, of employing 1000 operatives
Arrangements are being made for the emf
q
considerable number or their old hands.
Beginning to See Where They're At
The firm OF Salt & Sons, to which first
reference is made in the mournful para
graph above quoted, was considered as solid
as the Bank OF England. When 1t went to
the wall, on account of the Mckinley act,
other English manufacturers, it seems,
kegan to see ''where they were at" and to
make provisions accordingly. The same
story of lear and trembling, and of the
shutting down of factories has come frorl
Wales, and all the time that the news of
these depressions in British trade is being
published, the editorial fabricators are en-
deavoring to reason themselves and the
uneasy British public into a belief that,
after all, things are not as bad as they
seem.
The firm of Salt, it has been said, aban-
doned business more as natural result of
general circumstances than as the outcome
OF the Mckinley act. The only trouble was
that there are a few trade organs and other
papers which are frank enough, excited
enough and sore enough TO tell the truth
about it before they have considered the
policy of SO quickly yielding the point
4 Tale of the Tin Plate Trade.
Here is bit from the st. James Gazette
concerning the tin question. 1t tells the
story:
\ correspondents of the Exchange Tele
graph Con pany states that the fatal blow
that has been struck at the tin plate trade of
South Wales by the Mckinley tariff is now
being felt in its tull force and the largest
market for tin plates in the world has been |
practically closed to profitable trade. Hop
nS against hope, manufacturers carried on |
their works, looking for the possibility of |
the abrogation of the tariff: but the recent
letter OF President Harrison, aking this !
protective measure a Chief plan in his pro- !
srainme and claiming for ft benefits to home /
trade ana the labor market, has left South (
Wales no alternative but to face the fact of !
its only too probable continuance, and, as |
an immediate consequ ence, the stoppage of |
come necessary. We are xn the threshold |
OF the winter, with probably 1000 |
workmen out of employment, together |
With the lar-e number dependent on tue |
bread earnerS. The mischief will unfortu- |
rately not be confined TO the tin plate trade |
but has wide ramifcarions affecting the |
upon the ell being of the tin place busi- |
ness. Within one .hontn we shall have 200 |
ont of Il total OF $40 TIN mines stopped, How |
far the reduction OF tin plate stocks on the 4
other side, material reduction in the |
high scale of wages now obtaining, may en- |
able welsh markets to meet the inevitable |
permanent reduction in price of plate re- |
mains to be seen. But, in the meantime "a |
period OF distress and proXimate ruin to |
many Will have to be experienced, and |
many q thriving neighborhood of which the |
Will become a scene Of desolation.
PitifuI as Well as Snarlish,
When such stress is laid, in conjunction
with the facts, upon President farrison's
letter, efforts like the following from the
Birmingham Argus to depreciate the Presi-
dents communication seem feeble and pitt
tul, as well as snarlish:
President Harrison is verbose President
Harrison's assertions need verifcation. II
the average American citizen ever troubles |
himself tC wade through the long-winded
election address of the retiring President
lie must inevitably become Democrat ii
only as 4 protest against the appointment
of prosy politicians to the highest office in a
Republican government. The improved
prospects CT tree trade in America since the
firm declaration OF Mr.. Cleveland i'll favor
irritation which Mr. Harrison displays and |
the iuordinate length at which he attempts
TO make the worse appear the better reason. |
w hile all impartial observers have declared |
the Mckinley tariff 10 be egregious |
Dlunder, President Harrison
assumes its success; but he is very wise in |
himself to safe generalizations |
and refraining from employment OF facts
and figures to establish his case.
This wel-posted English editor co ucludes
his Philippe with the somewhat surpris-
ing statement to Americans that "Presi-
dent Harrison's letter has created an un-
favorable impression in America As for
the facts and figures which he upbraids the
President for not going into more fully, it
might be well for some of the apostles of t
free trade in this country to forward to him |
made by Nh. Peck, of the Bureau OF Labor