The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-19
THE TIN PLATE FAKE.
REPUBLICAN PEGS KNOCKED FROM
UNDER.
The Industry is Yet in Its "Infancy" and
Will Never be Profitable in this

Country.
NEW YORK, Oct 9..-The tinplate
works at Elizabeth will close its doors
this week. The move has long been ex.
pected. The number of men that will
be discharged is 100.
The above piece of glorification, head.
lines and all, at the announcement that
the tinplate works at Elizabeth. N. j.,
will close its doors and that $50 labor.
ers will be discharged and 15O families
thrown on the cold charities of the com
munity where they reside is being pub
lished in the free trade Democratic
papers as great boon in their favor.
That the more candidates furnished fol-
the poorhouse and charitable institu.
tions the larger the gain in the interest
of free trade!
History repeats itself. Nero fddled
while Rome was in flames. Our modern
Neros, with the same fiendish delight,
tune their "fiddles and rosin the bow"
every time the "pegs are knocked from
under" an establishment giving employ.
ment and living wages to American
labor! The closing of the doors of the
Elizabeth tinplate works is one instance
of many that sends thrill of Joy
through the ranks of the English.
American advocates for q tariff fol
revenue only" proclaimed by the Dem.
ocratic platform of 1892
Here is an argument recently ad.
vanced by Mr.. O'Farrell, the Demo
cratic free trade candidate for Govern,
or Of Virginia:
THE fiscesSties of life is taxed. The
poor man must pay for these things.
he gets up in the morning and puts on
his taxed clothes. He takes up taxed
washpan, that is, if he is Democrat,
as Democrats will keep clean. He uses
cake of taxed soap. He eats his taxed
breakfast, lights taxed cigar, ,>and he
comes home at night and reads his taxed
Bible; the student his taxed diction ary,
etc, etc."
This is q decidedly rich paragraph
from the fact that not one Of the articles
above named ever see customhouse
all manufactured in this country, and
sold cheaper than can be bought in
England. Why, every Democrat anxiou.
to keep clean can buy a good block
tin washpan for 10 cents, large cake
of soap, weighing pound and over,
for cents; and if soap is not strong
enough to remove the scales from the
''unwashed Democracy" quart bottle
Of ammonia can be bought for cents of
sufficient strength to remove the hide
with the dirt that olings with the to-
hacity of India Ink. As cleanliness is
next to Godliness, Democrat has no
excuse for living an ungodly life for
the want OF q washpan, soap and
ammonial What superlative nonsense it
is for anyone to talk about the burdens
the protective tariff imposes upon the
masses when it is known to every anan
possessed Of common sense that there is
not an article that enters into their
wants that can not be purchased to-day
for less money than ever before known
in the history of this country. In fact,
everything is too cheap for the interest
Of the manufacturer, seller and buyer.
Ruinous prices means hard times bor-
dering on a panic. 1t is not the price of
an article that troubles the working
man, but the want of work and money
to buy with. From free trade and
poverty, good Lord, deliver us. Let us
sing to
Free Trade and Everything Cheap.
[Tune-"Chasing the Rabbit"]
Listen my boys, to the joyful intelligence
Cleveland proclaims a millennium at
hand;
Never did such tidings, by mail or by dill
gence,
Promise relief to panic-stricken land.
Trade will revive now as sure's you're
alive now,
No drones in the hive now shall slumbei
or sleep;
| Monopoly totters, quite weak on her trot-
ters,
| cheap
Bury each feeling of old animosity;
Every weak prejudice lay on the shelf;
| Open our ports, and ne'er ask reciprocity
Foreigners just as good as yourself
The seasons past shipping-'tis time to be
clipping
The wings of our shipping that cumbers
the deep.
| Nothing that's national ever is rational
Glory's too dear for us-Free Trade is
cheap!
Farmers, go hear our Democrat lecturers
Only by them is the thing understood;
Quickly remove our great manufacturer
Want of protection is all for your good.
No fact can be surer, if once your re made
poorer,
You re all the securer a profit to reap;
While lack OF employment will help your
enjoyment,
So free trade forever and everything
cheap.
Shout for free trade, while you've breath
left to cry it WITH,
Pleasant the sound is whate'er it may
mean;
Bawl for cheap bread till you've nothing
to buy it with,
What it may cost will hereafter be seen.
Huzza! for confusion, deception, delusion,
The coming conclusion just makes the
heart leap
Though oft we've been cheated, it won't be
repeated
So free trade forever and everything