The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-10-01


and turn out more: then let the master
forego profits for the same time And
again that paper says: 1T Is clearly the
interest OF both employer and workmenj
10 produce tin plates, tariff or no tariff. at
4 price that will drive all competitors from
the field" But in spite of the doubts
raised by the elections of 1890 and of the
Vaccinations of foreign producers to main
tam their monopoly the tin plate industry
mas been established in the United States,
ana the alliance between the Welsh pro-
ducers and the Democratic party for its
destruction will not succeed. 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 total production Of 1920 $50
der S26,a22 pounds, with the last 49,
ooo.OOO pounds, shows the rapid de-
velopment of the industry Over $780,
ooo pounds during the last quarter were
made from American block plates,
the remainder from foreign plates. Mr..
Aver, the treasury agent, in charge. esti
mates, as the result OF careful inquiry, that
the production of the fiscal year will be
100, 100000 pounds and that by the end OF
the year our production will be at the rate
OF 2oo,OOo, 900 pounds per annum.
Another industry that has been practi-
cally created by the Mckinley bill is the
making of pearl buttons. Few articles
coming to us from abroad were so distinct
ly the product OF starvation wages.
THE HALF CAN'T BE TOLD IN ONE LETTER.
But without unduly extending this letter,
cannot follow in detail the influence of the
tarlff law of 1890. 1t has tranSpanted sew
eral important industries and established
them here and has revived or enlarged all
others. The act gives TO the miners pro-
lection against foreign silver bearing lead
ores, the free introduction OF which threat
ened the great mining industries of the
ROCKY Mountain states; and to the wool
growers protection for their tieecrS and
Hooks. which have saved them from a
further disastrous decline. The house of
representatives at its last session passed
bills placing these ores and woods upon the
free list. The people of the West will
know how destructive to their prosperity
these measures would be. This tariff law
has given employment to many thousands
of American men and women. and will
each year give employment to increasing
thousands. Its repeal would throw thOus-
ands out of employment and give work to
others only at reduced wages. The APP
pealS OF the free trader to the wOrklngmen
are largely addressed to his preiudIces or
to his passions and not Intrequently are
pronouncedly communistic. The new
Democratic leadership RACES at the EN-
pl0yer and seeks to communicate his rage
to the employe. | greatly regret that all
employers OF Labor are not Just and con-
slderate and that capital sometimes takes
too large a share of the profits. But | do
not see that these evils will be ameliorated
by tariff policy the first necessary effect
OF which Is Il severe wage cut and the sec
Ond large dlmlnutlOn of the aggregate
amount OF work to be done in this country.
Ii the injustice OF his employer tempts the
workman to strike back he should be very
sure that his blow does not fail upon his
head or upon his wife and children.
GENTLY.
The wOrkmen in our great industries are
as body remarkably intelligent. ana are
lovers of home and country. They may
be reused by in justice. or what seems to
them TO be such: or to be led by the others
INTO acts OF passion; but they will settle
the tariff question IN the calm light of their
treSldcS 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 advocate of a protective tariff
claims that 1t Is able OF itself to maintain a
uniform rate of wageS-without regard to
fluctuations in the supply of and demand
of the products of labor-but it is confident
ly claimed that productive duties strongly
tend to hold up wages, and are the only
barrier against a reduction to the European
scale. The southern states have had lib
erai participation in the benefits OF the
have generally opposed the protection
policy. they rejoice that their sugar, rice,
coal. ores. iron. fruits. cotton cloths and
other products have not been lett to the
fate which the votes Of their representa-
tlveS would have brought upon them.
In the question of the Nicaragua canal,
in the new trade with the South and Cen
trail America. In the establishment of
American steamship lines, these states
have also special interests, and all these
al
without representation at Washington.
Shrewdly, but not quite fairly. our adj
versaries 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 enlargement of the free list.
During the last fiscal year S45S,OOo,N2
worth Of merchandise, or So per cent. of
our total impOrtatiOnS came III free the
largest percentage in our history while in
1889 the percentage of free lmpOrtatlonS
was only 81. =. The placing OF sugar upon
the free list has saved to the consumer in
duties in fifteen months. after paying the
bountleS provided for, sI,OOOO)O. This re-
lief has been substantially felt in every
household, upon every saturday purchase
of the worklngman.
one OF the tavorite arguments against
protective tariff Is that it shuts us out
from a position in what is called with
swelling emphasis .'thp markets of the
world II this view is not 4 false one,
how does il happen thar our commercial
competitors are not able to bear with
more serenity our supposed surrender to
them OF the markets of the worldo"
and how does it happen that the partial
loss of our market closes foreign tin plate
mills and plush factories that still have all
other markets. Our natural advantages.
our protective tariff and the reciprocity
policy, maze it possible for us TO have a
tariff participation IN the market of the
world without opening our own to Il COM
petition that would destroy the comfort
and independence of our people.
BIMETALLI>M.
The resolution Of the convention in favor
of bimetalliSm declares, | think. the true
and necessary conditions OF movement
that has. upon these lines, my cordial ad-
herence and support. | am thoroughly
confident that the free coinage or silver at
such ratio to gold as Will maintain the
equality in their commercial uses OF the
two coined dollars. would COnduce TO the
prosperity Of all tAe great producing and
commercial nations Of the world. The one
essential condition is that those dollars
shall have and retain an equal acceptablllty
and value in all commercial transactions.
They are not only medium of exchange
but a measure of values: and. when I'M
equal measures are called in law by the
same name. commerce Is unsettled and
confused and the unwary and ignorant are
cheated. Dollars OF unequal commercial
value will not circulate together. The