The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-06

articles of common necessity and of the marked
advance N prices OF agricultural products. 1t is
plain the tariff law has not imposed burdens
but has conferred benefits upon
THE FARMER AND woRK1NGMAN.
Some special effects Of the acts should be
noticed. 1t was courageous TO attempt to rid
our people OF the long maintained foreign
monopoly on the production of tin plate, pearl
given to the importer under this view of the
constitution in order 10 increase important i'm
portations and revenue for revenue only" is
the limitation Reciprocity of course, falls under
revenue, but promotion Of commercial ex--
changes, the profits of which go wholly
to our producers gss This destructive
taught by history by Democratic statesmen
whose fame as American patriots reached this
generation; certainly not by jefferson or Jack
SON This crusade against American shops,
hitter eplthets applied to American nlanufac-
turers, persistent dis belief of the opening of a
tlnplate mill or OF the increase OF our foreign
trade by reciprocity, are as surprising as they
are dlscredltable. There is not "a thoughtful
statesman in the country who does not know the
enactment of a law in harmony with the Chi
cago convention on the subject of the tariff
would Ut once plunge ths country into q bust
ness CONFUSION such as 1t never has seen, and
there is not thoughtful workingman who does
not know that ii would at once formally reduce
the amount of work to be done in this country
by the increase OF impOrtatiOns which would be
followed By an immediate reduction OF his wages
to the European standard. If any one suggests
that the radical policy will not be executed if
the Democratic party attains power what shall
be thought of the party!
once or twice IL our history
THE PRODUCTION OF TIN PLATE
was attempted and the prices obtained by the
Welsh makers would enable our makers to
produce at profit, But the Welsh makers
AZ once cut prices to point
that drove America out of the business
.,r7d xrNo 1i-na do
their own prices. A correspondent of the In
dassts7dt World the official organ of Welsh tin
plate workers, published nj swansea, in its
issue of June 10, 1892 advises new trial of
The victory OF the Republicans at the polls
means the retention of the Mckinley bill and
means rapidly accruing loss of so per cent. of
the export American trade. had there been no
Democratic victory in 1890, the spread OF tin
plate manufacture in the United states would
have been both rapid and bona fide 1t is not
yet too late to do something to reduce the price
OF plates Put them down to IL shillingS per
box of 100, IA by 90, full weight basis. Let
workmen take half pay for few months and
turn out more, then let the masters forego pro-
fits for some time. :"
And again that paper says it is clearly to the
interest of both employer and workman to pro-
duce tin plates tariff or no tariff, at price that
will drive all competition from the field. but in
spite or doubts raised by elections OF 1890 and
OF the Vaccinations OF foreign producers to
maintain their monopoly the tinpiate industry
has been established in the United states and
the alliance between the Welsh producers and
the Democratic party for it's destruction will
not succeed. Official returns to the treasury de-
partment of the production of tin and tin
plates in the United States during the last ifs
cal year, show total production OF 13, 240 $50
pounds. and q comparison of the first quarter Of
226 or pounds. with last s, 900 900 pounds, shows
a rapid development of the industry. Over
100000 pounds during last quarter were
made from American block plates
and the remainder from foreign plates.
Mr.. Aver. treasury agent in charge, estimates
as the result OF careful inquiry. that the pro-
duction of the current year will be 100000
pounds, and by the end OF the year our pro-
duction will be at the rate OF 100000 pounds
per annum.
PEARL BUTTONS.
Another industry that has been practically
created by the Mckinley bill is making pearl
buttons. Few articles coming to the United
States from abroad are SO distinctly the pro-
duct of starvation wages, but without unduly
extending this letter cannot follow in detail
the influences of the tarin law of 1890. 1t
transplanted several important industries and
established them here and revived
or enlarged all others. The act gives
to miners protection against foreign silver
bearing lead ores. the free Introduction of
which threatened the great mining industries
of the Rocky mountain states, and TO wool
growers the protection for their feeceS and
hocks which saved them from further and
disastrous decline. The house Of representa-
tives at its last session passed bills placing
these ores aud wool upon the free list. The
people of the west will know how destructive
to prosperity these measures would be-
This tariff law has given employment to many
thousands of American men and women,
to increasing thousands. Its repeal would
threw thousands out OF employment and give
work to others only at reduced rates. The ap-
peals of free traders to working men are largely
addressed to preiudices or to passions
and are not unfrequently pronounced com
munistic The new Democratic leader RACES
at the employer and seeks TO communicate his
rage to the employee greatly regret that all
employers of labor are not just and consider ate
and that capital sometimes takes too large
share of the profits. But l do not see that
these evils would be smeiiorated by tariff
policy, the first necessary effect OF which is
severe wage cut. and second, large diminu-
ton OF the aggregate amount Of work to be
done In this country.
ADVICE TO WoRKINGMEN.
If the injustice of his employer tempts work
man to turn back, he should be very sure his
blow does not fall upon his own head or upon
industries are, as body, remarkably intelli-
gent and are lovers OF home and country. They
may be reused by injustice or what seems to
them to be such, or be led for o moment by
others, into acts OF passion, but they will settle
the tariff contest in calm light next November
and with sole reference 10 the prosperity of the
country of which they are cilzens aud of the
homes they have founded for their wives and
children.
PROTECTIVE TARIFF CLAIMS.
No intelligent advocate of the protective
tariff claims IS able of itself to maintain
uniform rate of wages without regard 10 fluctu-
atoms in supply OF and demand Tor products OF
labor. But it is confidently claimed that pro-
tective duties strongly tend to hold up wages
and are the only barrier against a reduction to
the European scale
SOUTH AMERICAN STATES
have had liberal participations in the benefits
OF the Tariff law, and though their representa-
tives have generally opposed the protection
policy, l rejoice that their sugar. rice, coal,
ores. iron. cotton cloths and other products
have not been left to the fate which the votes
OF their representatives would have brought
upon them. In the construction OF The Mica
rauga canal; in the new trade with South and
Central America; in the establishment of
American steamship ineS-these states also
have special interests, and all these interests
Will not always consent to be without repre-
sentation al Washington
Our adversaries speak only of increased du-
ties imposed upon tin, pearl buttons and other
articles By the Mckinley bill, ana omit alto
gether any reference to the great and beneficial
enlargement of the free list. During tho last
fiscal year sos 0O0.172 worth OF merchandise, or
55. 50 per cent of our total importation came in
free largest percentage IN our historyD while
in 1889 the per cent OF free importations was
only -. 10 per cent. The placing of sugar upon
the free list has saved TO the consumers In du-
ties IL fifteen months after paying Dounties pro-
Elutu lOl COZ uVo,VVOs 1nls lelitl DdS peeu SUD-
stantially felt in every household. upon every
Saturdays purchase OF the workingman.
One OF The favorite arguments against u pro-
tectlve tariff is that 1t shuts US OUT from parti
cipation IN what is called with swelling empha-
sis the market OF The world" II this view is
not false one how does IL happen our CONNER
ca competitors are not able to bear with more
serenity our su opposed surrender TO them OF THE
marked OF the world and how does it happen
the partial loss of our market closes foreign
tin plate mills and plush factories: Our
national advantages are protective tariff and
reciprocity. Policy makes it possible for Us to
have q large participation in 1.-THE market of
the world" withont opening our own to compe-
tltion. That would destroy the comfort and