Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-23

coming year. The tin-plate mills have |
been running full time and storing
away their stuff. The WOODEN manu-
facturers thought they saw, amid the
gloom that has enveloped them, great
CLEAN Of light upon the western horizon.
Even the iron and steel manufacturers
have had strong hope that Mr.. Cleve-
land and his friends would so far reduce
the duties that steel rails and perhaps
even pig iron could be poured in upon
US in food. II was really believed that
England had done her final work here
against protection as she has succeeded
in doing it apparently against BIZ
metallsm. The elections of November
9TH dashed all these hopes and expecta.
tons to the ground"
observant persons will of course
notice that Max has been felicitously
humorous in his choice of the imports
that were to be poured in upon us in a
"hood.n Tin-plate, to start with-why,
the English manufacturers have been
supplying this country right straight
along with practically all the tin-plate
we use. During the eight months
ending August 3lst, 1893, we imported
446, 466, O13 pounds of tin-plate, as COM
pared with 433, 6SS,942 pounds for the
corresponding period of last year. So
long as we are taking British tin-plate
at this rate it would be safe to bet that
the mills over there arc not storing
away any very heavy surplus of the
"stuff" to be unloaded upon US next
year or the year after. Tin-plate comes
a little high under the Mckinley duty,
il is true, but we must have it all the
same.
Max next Tugs in the free wool bug
bear. Two weeks ago he told us that
wool had fallen so low-under the
operation of the Mckinley tariff re-
member-that western shepherds were
killing off their flocks for mutton. He
also told us at the same time that GER
tain venturesome New York carpet
manufacturer was actually shipping his
products to England, to the consterna'
ton and decentralization Of the blarsted
Britishers. In his news columns Of
Saturday he says that "wool prices are
so near the free wool level that some
are now willing to take the risk of fur.
Their shrinkage in values by operating &
little beyond requirements.
The Mckinley act imposes "protec
tive" duties on wool ranging from 40 t.
100 per cent. Under this exorbitan
protection the price of the domestic arti
Gle has gone down, as conceded by III
Manufacturer, nearly to the free WOO
level. Such being the case, puttini
woolson the free list can make very littl
, difference.
, And steel rails Has Max heard o
! Carnegie's cut in the price Of steel rail
+ down to $3.50 per tonP Does he know
we are exporting-actually exporting
J for sale in competition with the produC
! of the pauper labor of Europe-fiv
, times as many steel rails as we import
For the eight months ending Angus
r Dist we exported-yes, Mr.. Adeler, ex
a ported, in defiance of that terribl
British lion-no less than 13,507 tons {
). American-made steel rails; we importe
/. of "bars, railway, of iron and steel or
d part Of steel" only 2,S74 tonsl
), And then "pig IRON" Now, by a
It that is humorous, Max, do you reall
G think that those sanguine Britishers ca
i flood" the American market with chea
l. pig iron, duty or no duty, while Peni
i sylvania operators are getting the
h labor for the beggarly stipend of
&c cents per day'-and this, too, under IL
Is still operative protection" of the NJ
n Kinley tariff?
1t And then as to that "chill" whit
n the elections have struck to the heart
n the British manufacturers. Are "
DO perfectly sure, Max, that the chill is n
Or superinduced by fear of American col
a petition under the tariff revision legisl
tn ton upon which Congress is about
il enter? You have heard of the He
Joseph Chamberlain He is British
rD with some knowledge of the situati
10 and some right to speak with authori
ed He mas just been saying something
5 interest, which we quste from the Lie
ga don correspondence of the New Yc
I'm San, as follows:
Of II believe" he said, "that Presid,
Ige Cleveland is absolutely honest and straig
.b- and that he will adhere to the princip
49, he laid down in his prediction address
2S which pointed in the direction of a red
ost ton Of duties in cases in which they
in not required for revenue purposes. q
d. where they are clearly excessive q
he directed merely to tie protection of p
ne, ticular industries. At the same time,
ng is opposed by gigantic vested interests, q
ne. it is quite impossible for an outsider
eti. predict whether he will be successful.
OF think, probably, some changes will
ost made, but | do not anticipate any v
nal great alteration in the tariff generally.
II am still of the opinion that, as far
the English trade is concerned. it would
be q good thing for us that the Americ
IN should make any real approach to
lch trade. Although at the outset our ma
rvs facturers might gain considerable
vantages sooner or later the natural
can sources of the United States, If set entil
sti- free, would enable them not only to l
N " their own against our competition, but
~ compete successfully with us in the men
Ion markets in which, at the present ii
.ors their protective system gives us the
aor vantage. '9