Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-06
EXIT THE CALAMITY HowLER.
The Sudden Disappearance Of Republics
Hard Times Walters.

The Sudden DisappearAnco OF Republican
Hard Times Walters.
Some time before election Oliver &
Co., of Pittsburgh, were engaged in
the erection of a one-mi1lion dollar
tinplate mill. The foundation had
been laid, contracts had been let and
workmen were busy on the immense
structure. The great enterprise was
referred to as indicating the revival of
business, the restored confidence of
capital and the awakening of indus
trial operations It is big undertake
ing, and special significance attached
to the fact that it was made immedi.
ately upon the adoption of ''ruinous
free trade policy" as the calamity
howlers were wont to designate the
tariff legislation perfected by the pres
ent congress.
Now these walters and political
claquers appear in an entirely differ
ent role. A republican victory changes
the whole face of events. To them
the future is rose tinted and touched
with the light of hope. They have
gone from the depths of dependency
to the extreme heights of rejoicing. AS
illustrative of this, Pittsburgh cor
respondent has been industriously
circulating revised story of what
Oliver & Co. are doing, and as to the
reasons in which they found justifica-
ton for SO large an expenditure OF
money. Without apparent apprecia-
ton of the humor of the thing, he
announces that the republican victory
is what assures the completion of the
new plant. It was projected before
the election and while the new tariff
bill was pending in congress; thou
sands of dollars were expended and
the corporation obligated itself to the
extent of the entire cost of construc-
ton, and now the country is gravely
informed that the mill will be erected
because the republicans were success
full on November 6.
Oliver & Co. have for years done q
business amounting to millions an
nually. They have never followed the
dictates of sentiment or changed their
plans in difference to ill-omened
calamity shouters. They know that
it will be impossible to change exist
ing tariff legislation before the sum-
mer of 1897, and that if done then it
must be by a congress committed to at
least some of the heresies of McKin-
leyism. Yet we are informed that
these careless. not to say reckless,
business men are willing to risk one
million dollars upon the extremely re-
mote contingency that some years
hence the Wilson bill may be repealed
to make way for such legislation as
the country has declared twice, in
manner unmistakab BILE, that it will not
have.
The correspondent with his repub-
lican victory theory only succeeds in
making ridiculous the cause which he
seeks to advance. Under the new
law the tin-plate industry has all the
protection that it needs, and there
could be no more conclusive proof Of
the fact than in the enterprise con.
ceived and put in motion before the re-
publican-victory dodge was availab BILE.
The plain fact is that by repeating
the Mckinley duty on block tin
the new tariff law confers a great
boon upon the domestic manufacture
ers of tin plate, as it does upon all
other consumers of raw material in
the production of manufactured arti-
cles for the markets Of the world.
Those who but few days ago could
see nothing but want and discourage
ment confronting the entire country,
have suddenly grasped the fact that
prosperity is returning, and like the
Pittsburgh correspondent they credit
it all to the republican victory. Let
the good times return and the people
can be relied upon to discover what
wrought the welcome change.-De.
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