Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-12-15
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The Sudden Disappearance Of Republican
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lsr.f Hard Zines Walters.
Some time before election Oliver d
Co., of Pittsburgh, we're engaged in
the erection of a one-miliion dollar
tinplate mill The foundation had
been laid, contracts had been let and
workmen were busy on the immc nse
structure. The great enterprise vas
referred to as indicating the revival c.
business thu restored confidence of
capitalsand the awakening of inau4-
trial operations. II q a big unde-sas-
Ing, and special Significance attached
to the fact that it was made imIaed..
ately upon the adoption of ..ruinons
free trade policy" as the calamity
howlers were won. to designats ths
tariff Legislation perfected by the pres-
ent congress. " 'at,f 20 RsE 2
Now these walters and political
elaquers' appear In an entirely differ.
ent roles A republican victory changes
! the wbelA~Ise&eAnsazts ztsss-- "a khAu,
the future is Arose-tinted and touched
with the light Of hope. They havs
gone from the depths of dependency
to the extreme heightsof rejoicing. As
illustrative Of this, a Pittsburgh COR
respondent has been industriousIy
circulating revised story OF whab
Oliver & Co. are doing. and ac to the
reasons in which they found justiaca-
tion for so large an expenditure Of
money. Without apparent appreeis.-
tioR OF the humor of the thing, h3
announces that the republican victory
Is what assures the completion of tho
new plant. 1t 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 constru:-
tion, and now the country is gravely
informed that the mill will be erected
because the republicans were success
ful on November 8. s.......-i
Oliver & Co. have for years done
business amounting to millions en-,
nually. They have never followed the
dictates Of sentiment or changed their
plans in difference to. ill-omened
calamity shouters. They know that
1t will be impossible to change exist
ing tariff legislation before the sum-
mer of 1897, and that If done then it
must be by congress committed to at
least some Of the heresies of McEin-
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 unmistaka BILE, that 1t 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 available.
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 II few days ago could
see nothing but want and discourage
melt 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.
troit Free Press