The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-10-12
sAUK CENTRE HERALD.
THURSDAY. ocroBsR IL. 1898.
PRo1Ec1toN aLGuA ENrs.


presented to the committee on ways
and means of the house OF representa-
tises will be full OF interest and instruc-
tioD to the average reader. And yet,
STRONG as they are, they will have little
weight with the democratic members OF
the committee, pledged TO revision OF
the tariff along lines of practical free
trade. 1t is not 10 be presumed that
they will be influcncedb Ivy any arguments
il favor of the republican doctrine of
protecting American labor. The south
ern wing of democracy is in the ascend
ant, and they are now, as ever, free
traders:
"The great cry OF our antagonists,
that the new duty would seriously en-
nance the cost OF the workman's dinner
pail, has not been verified as yet. Tin
ware today is cheaper than ever before.
Ifyou concluded to reduce the duties on
imports again it may be possible tina,
the cost of the dinner pail will be still
lower for short period of time; but will
the workman in such case have anything
to put in his pail? And il. on account of
the reduction in duty, all of the tinplate
works in the United States have to shut
up shop again and will have to with.
draw from competition, will not the
foreign manufacturers and importers
nut OIL the tax again for their own bene-
fit? desire to call your atten-
ton to the significant fact that mos OF
the importers who have been antagon'
izinp us do not desire tin plate on the
free list. They want duty OF cent
pound, because that is a protection to
their business. 1t requires ready cash to
paw the duty. and If it were not for that
every small dealer would do hs own
importing. Hence it shows that a low
rate OF duty protects the importer, but
does the importer distribute the proceeds
OF his business among orr own work
men the Same as the manufacturers! NO.
Therefore, if there shall be any protec
ton at all, place it where the most reo-
ME are benefited, and where it Will
weld the longest incidental reveEue." y
w e. cronemeyer, Prest. Tin Plate
Manufacturers Association OF the United
States.
I'm conclusion, notwithstanding that
I have been a lifelong democrat, it would
pain me very much 10 see any changes
op the present duties made W hich would
have a tendency to cripple he present
tinplate industry, and to cause those
beautiful mills that l have seen TO shut
down and once more be compelled to
use the rotten tinplate that was dumped
on this market before the great Under
taking of supplying the American market
with American tnp!ate. "A. l.. Der
nardin. Bernardiu Bottle Cap. Co..
Evansville, Indiana.
THE American Plate company WAS
formed through the combination, the
great majority being people OF moderate
means. there being very lew wealthy men
in the company. When the company
first started we hid oar capital RAISED
from $50 stockholders. great many OF
them in the emplo. of the company ior
which workeG--the Penns1 wanna Kali
road ccmpany-tLe Offices being filled by
Young men who subscribed from 81 .0oo
TO 81, 600 In fact the largest stock
holder of the original subscription did
not exceed $4,000, and both political
parties were represented. We raised
some 100000. all of which WAS
invested in the tinplate industry.
Our stockholders have rot invested their
money for political effect. but only as a
business investment, and l as an officer
of the company am nos conducting the
business for political effect, but to SHOW
the men who have entrusted their capi-
tai to my management that will look
after it properly for them. ke-
ducing the tariff on all sides would make
such an army of unemployed workmen
during the readjustmen. OF business
upon the new lines aswouid bring down
wages to the point which has made
England the most successful manuiac-
turing country in the world, and ena-
bled her to throw her doors open wide
and challenge the world OH free trade
basis; but which forced one who investi-
gated the matter to wonder at what
hellish ingenuity capital has been able to
discover upon Just how little mar
could live, keeping body and soul
together, bis future being provided foI
By the poorhouse, supported by the
state. But we ask you, gentlemen, to
keep in good faith the promises OF the
United States that the tariff will not be
disturbed for five years, and thus pre-
vent this long period of unproftable
strife and hungry expectation OIL the
part of the laborers, waiting till their
stomachs tell them they must accept
whatever wages are offered in order to
compete with their English mothers. p
w. r. Leeds, Treas. American Tin Plate
Co., Elwood, Indiana.
las large consumers OF tin plates we
protest against any alteration of tho
present duty on the. same. We protest
alike in our own interest and in the in
terest of the American TIN plate indus
George II Page, Gen. Mgr. Anglo
Swiss Condensed Milk Company.
"Time permitting, could continue in
definitely. Showing how the the tariff,
vitality necessary to our industry. does
not tax the people; how the consumer is
benefited through the product being
manufactured at his door; how, during
the long, weary months of our start,
discouragement, sickening in it's inten-
sity, prevailed; how odds, seemingly in
surmountable, showed endless accumu
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