The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-11-09
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Mr. CowEN AT ABERDEEN.-Hon. John X.
Cowen delivered a strong and effective speech
| in the town hall at Aberdeen Monday night,
| on tariff reform. The hall was densely pack
ed with an intelligent and appreciative audi
ence, and the Emmorton and iIavre de Grace
bands played alternately. The meeting was
called to order by Mr.. ID. Z. Mitchell, upon
| whose nomination Mr.. Charles w. Michael
was chosen to preside. Mr.. Michael, upon
| taking the chair remarked that he thought it
proper to say that no personalities would
form any part of the discussion. Aberdeen is
largely interested in canning and wants cheap
| tin Mr.. Baker, the Republican candidate for
| Congress, is a Gamer He needs cheap tin
and we propose to give it to him.
Messrs. Lawson Cooley and o. c. Michael
| were appointed secretaries and number of
| vice presidents. nominated by Mr.. w. A.
Wells, were appointed.
Mr.. Joseph s. Heuiser, of Baltimore, hav-
ing been prevented from coming, Mr.. j l..
Griffith Lee consented to make the first speech.
| The Young orator, who is a son of Col. Ohio
s. Lee, of Bel Air, said he had studied the tar
i'll question thoroughly but was obliged to
confess that he did not know enough about it
to discuss it intelligently. lie gave a brief
summary of the handsome work in the cause
of tariff reform by Hon. William L. Wilson,
Of West Virginia. and Mr.. Coweu, and urged
| his hearers to advance the cause of tariff
reform by voting for Mr.. Talbot.
Mr.. Cowen was then introduced. His ap-
pearance was greeted with long continued ap-
plause. Without wasting time in preface
he plunged at once into his subject and for
an bour and a-half was listened to with ear
nest attention. The greater part of his speech
was upon the subject of tin-plate, and by way
of illustration he gave a supposed conversa-
ton between Mr.. Ingram, who has tin
plate factory at Locust Point, Baltimore, and
Hartford county Gamer In this he showed
plainly that the only way profitable indus
try of this kind could be established under
the Mckinley tariff was for the Gamers to
chip in and pay 80 cents per pound, the
amount of the Mckinley duty on tin, to Mr..
Ingram, to enable him to conduct his factory.
With free tin Gamers would save this tax and
consequently decrease the expense of their
cans. Under the present Wilson tariff the
duty has been reduced one cent per pound
and tin cans are cheaper. He referred to the
fact that when the Mckinley bill went into
operation in 1890, the Welsh tin-plate makers,
in order to keep down the price of tin made
the sheets thinner. The same process was re-
sorted to in the manufacture of wooden goods
The manufacturers furnished cheaper cloth
ing but having exclusive control of the home
market they cheapened clothing by giving the
people shoddy instead of pure wooden goods.
Mr.. Cowen read numerous extracts from the
Iron Age showing that notwithstanding the
Wilson duty of 1.2 cents per pound, tin-plate
factories are being established all over the
country.
The meeting closed with an earnest address
from ex-senator Robinson, calling upon ev-
cry Democrat to support Mr.. Talbot, who
represents the people in their demand for
lower tariff.