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forego profits for the same time" And
again that paper says: ''It Is clearly the
interest OF both (employer and workmen
70 produce tin plates, tariff or no tariff, al
| pnce 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 13,24O,0 $3.50
pounds, and comparison of the first quar-
| ter, $50, W. pounds, with the last 49,
100000 pounds, shows the rapid de-
vcloDment of the industry. Over 5000
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
100 000, 900 pounds and that by the end OF
the year our production will be at The rate
Of 2O0, DOC, 600 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
~ the product OF starvation wages
THE HALF CAN'T DE TOLD IN ONE LETTER.
But, without unduly extending tins letter,
i cannot follow in detail the influence of the
tariff law of 1890. 1t has transplanted 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 tieeces and
tiocks, which have saved them from q
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 wonld be. This tariff law
has given employment to many thousands
OF American men and women, and will
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 workingmen
are largely addressed to his preiudIces or
to his passions, and not lntrequently 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 sometimes takes
too large share of the profits. But do
not see that these evils Will be ameliOrated
by tariff policy the first necessary effect
or which Is severe wage cut and the Sec
ond q large diminutiOn 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 fall upon his
head or upon his wife and children.
GENTLY.
The worlkmen in our great industries are
as body remarkably intelligent, and are
lovers of home and country. They may
be reused by injustice, or what seems to
them to be such; or to be led by the others
into acts of passion; but they will settle
the tarift question in the calm light of their
firesides and with sole reference to the
prosperity OF the country of which they
founded for their wives and children. No
intelligent advocate of protective tarltf
claims that it 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 1t is confident
ly claimed that productive duties strongly
tend to hold up wages, and are the only
barrier against reduction to the European
scale. The Southern States have had lib
eral participation in the benefits of the
tariff law. and though their representatives
have generally opposed the protection
policy. they rejoice that their sugar, rice,
coal, ores, iron, fruits, cotton cloths and
other products have not been left to the
fate which the votes of their representa-
tives 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
interests will not always consent to be
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 Si5S,00 772
worth of merchandise, or 55.95 per cent. of
our total importationS came in free (the
largest percentage in our history, while in
1889 the percentage of free impOrtatiOns
was only "a. AZ. The placing of sugar upon
the free list has saved TO the consumer in
duties in fifteen months, after paying the
bounties provided for, $S7, 900, 900. This re-
lief has been substantially felt in every
household. upon every Saturdays purchase
OF the worHngman.
One of the .favorite arguments against
q protective thrift is that 1t shuts us out
from a position in what is called with
swelling emphasis ''the markets OF the
world" If this view is not false one,
how does IL happen that our commercial
competitors are not able to bear with
moro serenity our supposed surrender to
them OF the markets of the world ?'
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, make 1t possible for us TO have q
tariff participation In the market of the
wOrld' without opening our own to COM
petition that would destroy the comfort
and independence of our people.
DIMETALLISM.
The resolution of the convention in favor
of bimetallism declares, think, the true
and necessary conditions of q movement
that has, upon these lines, my cordial adj
herence and support. l am thoroughly
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
commercial nations of the world. The one
essential condition is that those dollars
shall nave and retain an equal acceptability
and value In all commercial transactions.
They are not only medium of exchange
but measure of values; and. when an
equal measures are called in law by the
same name, commerce Is unsettled and
confused and the unwary and ignorant are