The record-union., 1897-04-03

reached by the Government. Bat there
is no occasion for alarm that legitimate
associations of capital and other legal
corporations will suffer unduly by rea-
son of the reaction that seems to be set
ting in Corporations are necessary
and should receive the same considera-
ton as other law abiding institutions,
and so long as they do not become ar
rogant and seek to evade their just re-
sponsibilities should be safe in this
country.
THE PICTURESQUE MANTILLA.
Stockton Independent: Sarah Bern
hardt has taken up the theater-hat nuis-
ance. She suggests that women take to
using mantillas in the evening at res
taurant dinners and subsequent visits
to the theater. The use of wraps for
the head which are easily removed, has
long been customary in Germany. There
are many reasons why the mantilla
should play a greater part in the social
life of women in California. 1t was the
universal head-covering of the native
Californian women and added mate
rally to their Dicturesqueness. Our
warm climate makes it a convenient ar
ticle of apparel, beautiful and service
able, while the use of the conventional
hat and bonnet becomes absurd during
the warmer months. This article of ap-
parel, SO popular among the Spanish, is
in considerable vogue in Stockton, but
we hope to see it adopted still more gen.
orally, especially in churches, the thea
ters and at lectures.
THE TIN-PLATE LIAR AGAIN.
Marysville Appeal: The tin-plate liars
last known appearance was somewhat
less than four years ago. when he told
an Englishman, who was visiting the
United States to see our methods of tin
plate manufacture, that he had been
searching for tin-plate manufactures.
and was unable to find them
The tin-plate liar is, however, intu-
mescent again in a late number of the
New York Evening Post against a
proposal to increase the present duty of
l 2-1O cents per pound to l $40. He
claims that the only advantage the
American manufacturers would derive
from this increased duty would be the
inability to form a combination among
American manufacturers. as "a radical
advance in the price in America could
not then be choked by importations from
Great Britain
To make this plea he has to assert
what is very near the truth, that for
eign tin plates no longer come in COM
petition with domestic tin plates No
statement of this kind will trouble him.
And within five years of the time that
he was proclaiming on the stump and
publishing in the newspapers that
Americans could not and did not make
tin plate, he will be sneering at any
| claim that the manufacture Of tin plate
is in any sense an infant industry.
In the meantime, Americans and all
the rest of the world get tin plate
cheaper than ever before. The McKin-
ley duty Of cents per pound, aided no
doubt by partial BELIEF in the tin
plate liars assertion that the two cents
would be added 10 the price obtainable
for tin plate, developed so much COM
mercial confidence that factories were
built all over the country, factories
which the Wilson tariff could not close.
Production has exceeded the demand
and the price has fallen.
Protection always accomplishes this
result, but it is seldom that the result
is so immediate, triumphant and strik-
ing.