Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-11-05

wOrkmen take half pay for few months
and turn out more; then let the master
forego profits for. the same time" And
again that paper says: lit is clearly the
interest OF both (employer and workmenl
to produce tin plates, tariff or no tariff, at
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
tain their monopoly, the tin plate industry
has been established in the United States,
and 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 l3240,o3o
pounds, and a'comparison of the first quar-
100000 pounds, shows the rapid de-
velopment of the industry. Over 5.OOO,-
600 pounds during the last quarter were
made from American block plates,
the remainder from foreign plates. MI.
Aver, the treasury agent, in charge, estl-
mates, as the result of careful inquiry, that
the production of the fiscal year Will be
10000 900 pounds and that by the END OF
the year our production will be at the rate
of 100000 900 pounds per annum.
Another industry that has been practi-
cally created by the Mckinley bill is the
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
tariff law of 1890. 1t has tranSplanted sew
erai 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
ba fraa nfr nt.nTf M WI
ened the great mining Industries of the
Rocky Mountain states; and to the wool
growers protection for their tleeceS and
t1Ocks, 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 ap- |
pealS of the free trader to the WOrkingmen |
are largely addressed to his preludlceS or |
to his passions, and not lnfrequently are |
pronOuncedly communiStic. The new |
Democratic leadership RACES at the EN-
plOyer and seeks to communicate his rage |
to the emplOye | greatly regret that all |
employers OF labor are not just and con- |
siderate and that capital somameS tS2keS |
too large a share of the profl. But | do I
not see that these evils willie ameliOrated s
by tariff policy the first ecessary effect I
of which is severe wage dt'and the sec {
Ond large diminutiOn the aggregate I
amount of work to be dor in this country. !
Ii the injustice Of his emlOyer temptS the l
workman to strike backhe should be very :
sure that his blow doe not fall upon his L
head or upon his wifend children. 9
woRKMEN WILL sETTLE IT INrELLE- :
GETTY. a
The workmen innr great industries are e
as body remarkably intelligent, and are
lovers of home and country. They may S
be reused by lnJuace, or what seems to C
them to be such; ono be led by the others e
into acts of passion but they will settle /
the tariff question lrthe calm light of their b
fresideS and with sole reference to the S
prosperity OF the ountry of which they S
are citlzenS and Ofthe homes they have
founded for their yves and children. No S
intelligent adyo0 4 of a protective tariff Il
claims th # ht 4 is of itself to maintain Il
of WageS-without regard to
fluctuations in the supply of and demand Fl
# the products of labor-but it is confident II
y claimed that productive duties strongly t
end to hold up wages, and are the only Il
,arrier against reduction to the European
Gale. The Southern States have had lib
raj participation in the benefits of the T.
ariff law. and though their representatives "
lave generally opposed the protection q
policy. they rejoice that their sugar, rice, +
.oal, ores, iron, fruits, cotton cloths and y
,ther products have not been lett to the =
ate which the votes of their representa- 4
lives would have brought upon them. y
In the question Of the Nicaragua canal, !;
n the new trade with the South and Cen y
raj America, in the establishment of y =
American steamship lines, these states 4
lave also special interests and all these
interests will not always consent to be
without representation at Washington.
Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our ad- v
1ersaries speak only Of the increased duties T.
imposed upon TIN, pearl buttons and other Il
articles, by the Mckinley bill, and omit a
altogether any reference to the great and Ii
enlargement of the free list s
During the last fiscal year S45S,OO0, 172 O
worth of merchandise, or 55.35 per cent. of a
)ur total importatlOnS came in free the t
argest percentage in our history, while in '
1889 the percentage of free importatiOnS b
vas only 34.42. The placing of sugar upon n
jhe free list has saved to the consumer in II
luties in fifteen months, after paying the il
Dounties provided for, $S7, 100000. This re- v
ief has been substantially felt in every {
household, upon every Saturdays purchase a
If the Worklngman. O
One of the favorite arguments against s
4 protective tariff is that it shuts US out v
rom position in what is called with r
swelling emphasis ''the markets of the t
world" If this view is not false one, e
how does it happen that our commercial
are not able to bear with
more serenity our supposed surrender to
5hem OF the markets of the world ?'' I
and how does it happen that the partial t
loss of our market closes foreign tin plate S
mills and plush factories that still have all L
other markets. Our natural advantages, a
0ur protective tariff and the reciprocity S
policy, maze it possible for US to have +
Tariff participation IN the market of the {
world'' without opening our own to a COM
petition that would destroy the comfort
and independence of our people. =
BIMETALLISM. {
The resolution of the convention in favor c
of bimetalliSm declares, think, the true
and necessary conditions of movement 1
that has, upon these lines, my cordial ad- I
herence and support. l am thoroughly I
confident that the free coinage OF 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 the great producing and i
nations of thetwOrld. The one kI
essential condition is that those dollars t
shall have and retain an equal acceptabiIity &
and value in all commercial transactions. t
They are not only medium of exchange {
but measure Of values; and. when un- /
equal measures are called in law by the {
same name, commerce is unsettled and Y
confused and the unwary and ignorant are l
cheated. Dollars OF unequal commercial /