Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-12-06
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per cent. are cut to 40 and 40 per cent.
in two sections. This will affect pot
teries at the places named above, and
also one near Brooklyn and one near
Boston, and will particularly injure
those manufacturers who have attemp-
ted to develop the higher grades of pot
teiy like Haynes of Baltimore, Willis
of Trenton, the Moses of Trenton, Smith
of Brooklyn and Taylor, Locklin and
Gookin of East Liverpool, Ohio.
The glass industry will be seriously
affected in all branches. The cut be.
gins with bottles and ends with plates.
Under green and colored glass, for all
kinds of bottles, the Mckinley tariff
places rate of but cent and II cent
specific rate to go per cent. ad valorem.
These rates are changed to 80 and 80
per cent.respectively, a reduction which
was distinctly protested against by
workingmen throughout the United
States, as we'll as the manufacturers.
Though cut glass has reached the high
est state of perfection under the protec-
tive duties of the law of 1888 and 1890,
which was illustrated by the awards of
the Paris Exposition and the World s
Fair, the industry is attacked with a
reduction of from so to 35 per cent. ad
valorem.
This simply means that wages must
be almost cut in two by the industry if
1t is to continue. Plate glass suffers
one of the largest cuts in the glass
schedule. This will seriously affect the
large factories in Indiana, Ohio. Pitts
burg and St. Louis. Proportionate re-
ductions are made upon all sizes of
the plate glass. The window glass rate
is cut in half, which will seriusly affect
the glass factories all through the
United States, as they are located in
thirty eight States of the Union. In
marble, in stone, the general reduction
amounts to about one third.
When the metal schedule is reached
the fact that iron ore and coal have
been placed on the free list cuts very
important figure. This, if carried into
effect, will cause such revolution in
the iron industry as to make the future
OF those engaged in iron manufacture
matter of great uncertainty. The
most vigorous protests against free iron
and free coal have been beard from the
South, where new factories have been
started, and where mills are in opera.
ton. In this connection it is import
ant to note that iron and the like has
been reduced from a specific duty of
three tenths of cent a pound to 81 pei
cent. ad valorem, taking the whole
scbedule-bar iron, sheet iron, sheet
steel and steel rails-the general aver
age reduction is about 80 per cent, but
on the last named article it is mucf
greater. The Mckinley rate was $13.44
per ton, and the proposed rate is 25 pei
cent. ad valorem, which, at present for
eign prices of steel rails. would make
the duty abont S4.50lper ton.
A noticeable exception to the genera
reductions stated is that upon tin plates
which is reduced from two and two
tenth cents pound to forty per cent
ad valorem. This, Mr.. Wilson says, il
revenue duty and at the same tim,
enough to permit any existing mills t,
and flourish. He evidently does no
want any more tin plates erected. 1t i
also peculiar that the bill only allow
per cent. more duty upon tin plat
than block sheets from which tin plat
is made. Mr.. Bynum also says thes
tin plate factories are nothing but dip
ping mills and fraud which might a
we'll be wiped out.
These comparisons showing the rest
iessness with which the Democratic
majority of the Ways and Means Com
mittee has attacked every establishe,
and growing American industry coulC
| be continued almost indefinitely. bu
enough has already been stated to shov
how seriously capital and labor will b
effected.
Perhaps the most important schedule
and one which the Democrats expect t
make great capital out of for use in tn
coming campaign, is wool. The farm
ers who have been profiting under th
protection afforded by the existing la,
in raising fine sheep for their wool Cal
now count upon q revenue from thei
flocks from wh1tever the butcher viii
pay them for we'll dressed mutton.
is interesting to note that from the FIRE
land country, or where are allowed t
Craze without cost, the export by de
cades, from 1850 to 1870 and from 1877
to 1880, have increased from less tha
1000, 100000 to nearly 5000, ,000, 90
pounds. Mr.. Wilson proposes that tn
American farmer shall compete wit