The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-07-14
Ono "Imdustry'' Saved from Wreck

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It is doubtful if there is in this coun-
try man engaged in an independent
productive industry who has not al
ready suffered severe injury from the
movement against the tariff and who
is not doomed to suffer more acutely
should the pending bill be passed. But
the Sugar Trust has not been harmed,
and the bill provides colossal profits
for it in the future.
Five millions of Americans are in
terested in sheep husbandry. They
conduct an industry which keeps gold
at home, which gives ready money to
American farmers, and which permits
the nation to have an approach to in
dependence in the supply of great
necessary of life. Last year there
were 45, 900, 900 sheep in the United
States, with a wool clip valued at $67,-
900, 900; and the presence here of these
focks helped the workingman's table
by maintaining low prices for meat.
The Democrats in Congress have de-
vised legislation which has already des-
troyed tewelve millions of sheep, and
which will certainly exterminate
American wool growing. Then we
shall pay more for wool and more for
meat, and five millions of farmers will
have less money with which to pay for
, anything. But the Sugar Trust will
pocket from $40, 900, 900 to $50, ,O0O,-
900 more than usual.
Under the small protective duty i'm
posed by the Mckinley act, the tin
plate industry, starting from nothing
has established fifty-six mills, with
$1,000, 900 capital, and is now pro-
ducing 1OO,OOO,O0O pounds of tin
plate year, or about one-ffth of the
total quantity consumed by the Amer
lean people. The price has gone down;
the quality of the domestic plate is
superior, and there has been good
promise that with few years we
should retain at home the 800, 900, 900
we pay to foreigners for an article
which we can make for ourselves.
The Democrats in Congress, however,
propose to reduce the duty below the
protective point and thus to close the
mills, to destroy the value of the in
vestment and to drive the industry out
of existence. But the Democrats in
Congress have arranged that the Sugar
Trust, by buying raw sugar free and
selling it under duty, shall make
in single year from six to ten times
the whole amount of money invested
in the tin plate mills.
2. Americans engaged in the lumber
industry now conduct 81, 200 estab-
lishments, with $500, 900, 900 capital
and with product valued at $780,
600, 900. They give employment at
high wages to 100000 workingmen.
Canada pays about 80 per cent. less
wages than may be earned here, and
the lumbermen there work with gov
ernment timber practically given to
them. The dominant party in Con-
gress has now placed lumber on the
free list, with the certain result that
the American lumber industry will be
destroyed, or that American wages
will go somewhat below the Canadian
level. The consequences to both en-
ployers and workingmen must be most
lamentable. But the Sugar Trust will
be given a chance to declare 25 and
80 per cent. dividends upon the stock
in which Senators have been specula-
ing.
This nation now pays to foreigners
about 300, 600, 900 annually for sugar
every pound of which can be grown on
American soil. The first promising
& movement toward the attainment ol
independence in this particular indus
try was made when a small bounty
was offered to the growers of beet
Augar. Last year the product was 4OC