Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-06


The official returns to the treasury de-
partment of the production of tin and terne
plates, in the United States, during the last
fiscal year. shows a total production of
l3,e4O. $50 pounds; aud a comparison OF
the first quarter, of Se5.o2e pounds, with
the last of 900 900 pounds, shows rapid
development of the industry. Over
!, 600, 600 pounds during the last quarter
were made from American black plates, the
remainder from foreign plates.
Mr.. Aver, treasury agent in charge, esti-
mates, as a result of careful inquiry, that
the production of the current year will be
100, 900 900 pounds. AMI by the end of the
year our production will be at the rate of
200, 900, 900 pounds per annum. This tariff
law has sven employment TO many thou
sands of American men and women, ami
will each year give employment to incrcas-
ing thousands. Its repeal would throw
thousands out of employment, and give
work to others only at reduced wages.
Appeals of free traders to workiDgmen,
and largely addressed to his predj JUDGES
or to his passions, and not infreqnentlv are
pronounced communistic. The new Dem
ocratic leadership RACES at the employers,
and seeks to communicate his rage to the
employed. | regard that all employers OF
labor are not just and considerate, and that
capital sometimes takes too large share
of the profits. But do not see that these
evils will be ameiiorated by Il tariff policy.
t.le first necessary effect of which is a Sc
we're wage cut, and the second, Il large dim
mutton of of the aggregate amount of work
to be- done in this country.
If the injustice of his employer tempts
the workman to strike back, he should he
very sure that his blow does not fall upon
rs own head or upon rs wife and children.
No intelligent advocate of the protective
tariff claims that is able, of itself, to main
tan Il uniform rate of wages without regard
to the fluctuations in the supply of and de-
mand for the products of labor. But it is
confidently claimed that protective duties
strongly tend to hold up wages, and are the
only barrier against reduction TO Euro
pean scale
onc of the favorte arguments against
the protective tariff is that it shuts us out
from pai icipation in what is called with
swelling emphasis 1.-THE markets of the
world" If this view is not a false one,
how does it happen that our commercial
competitors are not able to bear with more
serenity our supposed surrender to them of
the .'narkcts of the world. and how does
it happen that a loss of our market closes
the tin plate mills and plush factories that
still have all other markets.
Dur natural advantages, our protective
tariff and reciprocity policy make it pos
sible for us to have large participation in
..thc markets of the world, without open
ing out our own to competition that would
destroy the comfort and independence of
our people.
The resolution of the convention in favor
of bi-mctalism declares, think, true and
necessary conditions of the movement that
has upon these lines, my cordial adherence
and snppo... am thoroughly convinced
that the free coinage Of silver. at such n
ratio to gold as will maintain an equality in
their commercial uses of the two coined
dollars. would conducc to the prosperity OF
all the great producing and commercial na-
tions of the world.
one essential feature is that these dollars
shall have and retain an equal acccptability
and value in all commercial transactions,
and that they be not only a medium of OK
change but measure of values, as when two
uneaual measures are called in law hv the
same name commerce is unsettled and con
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