The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-17
THE TARIFF BIEL.
Wheeling Manufacturers and
worklngmcn Pleased,
POTTERY SCHEDULE PROTECTS
An Industry that Tia, Been Struggling
Under DInisultlsu slnOs the Wilson hui
was Enast'd-A Suggestion Regarding
Probable DlSsItrOuu Japanese COmpstl-
tlOn-Th' TIn Plate Dutis.wlll Ensour.
age PromlIlnE Indaslrz.

Wheeling manufacturers and work.
ingmen received che new tariff bill.
which was introduced in the house on
Monday. with much satisfaction.
While constructed to raise sufficient
revenue to run the government, tho
trainers OF measure were at all points
working to secure for American In
dustry the protection for which the Re-
publican party stands.
The tin plate schedule. particularly,
is received with a great deal OF salts
faction. 1t means much to Greater
Wheeling, for there are several estnb-
lIshments that are engaged In the
manufacture of plate. including the La
Belle iron works, whitaker iron works
Laughlin iron works and Aetna-Stans.
ard company.
President NJ. NJ. Garland, OF the
Amalgamated association, says that y
the tin plate clause goes through II VIII
mean employment for at least 1000 ad.
dltional men In that one department
OF the Iron and steel industry. The
elimination OF the drawback on impor-
ted plates used for exporting canned
goods will neccssltRte the manufacture
OF 100000 more b0xes Of the Tin plates
than are now produced IN this country,
The Standard OIL Company In an ar
gument against wiping out the draw.
back clause, made before the ways and
means committee, said It would force
them to erect mills and make tin plate
for their own use. President Garland
said this Is what the people want. 1t
does not make any difference who puts
up the new mills so they are put up and
operated. Armour and DINER extensive
Gamers OF meat and fruit may go Into
the manufacture OF tin plates. This,
however. will not interfere with the
present plants that are now in opera
ton.
With the 81 plants operating 1Ss mills
and with the plants that are to be built,
the entire demand OF The country can be
supplied on this side OF the ocean aud
the foreign plates will be etfectuaily
shut out. An increase IN the duty to
IL cents pound Is not absolutely
necessary, but, as manufacturers say.
1t Is safer to have II high enough, as II
will prevent the necessity Of cutting
wages 10 compete with the cheap labor
OF Wales.
The pottery schedule appears 10 be
satisfactory TO the local DOttG-s. The
duties are practically the same as those
provided In the 1880 tariff bill, which
boreethe name OF Mckinley. This Indus
try has struggled for the past four years
under dlsCouraglnE conditions, but the
duties Will stimulate 1t and better con-
ditiunS that have prevailed. The new
duties wIll decrease the impotRttlons OF
pottery from England and Germany
and consequently create q larger de-
mind for the American product but
persons who have watched develop
ments lately, declare that In neither
Germany nor In England is TO be found
the danger to the American industry.
From another direction a most danger
Gus competition Is already springirg up.
In Japan, where labor Is dirt cheap
the native potters are studying the
styles called for In the American
market and are able to send their wares
to the distant American nlarke. and
sell them fur below the bare cost OF
American manufacture. 1t Will take a
tariff mountain high to do away with
this disastrous competition.
The raw wool duty, eleven cents a
pound, IL the same provided for In the
Mckinley law OF 1880, but 1t will be
some time, says wool dealer, before
the market will mount to thirty-tw1
cents, Now the price Is eighteen ana
nineteen cents. and even after the Ding
ley law Is In force It will require some
tlmc to reach twenty-five cents,ror i'm
portntions just now are remarkably
heavy and the market Is already over
stocked. Then, too, the demand for
wool, on account OF the hard times, Is
not great, and that contributes to keep
ing the price down. However. wool
will reach twenty-five cents soon after
the passage Of the Dingley bill and
eventually will go to thirty or thirty
two cents