Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-09-27

average of 8 per cent, while foreign
prices declined "a per cent from 1869 to
1890, and prices today are higher than in
1860, for ordinary sizes. Will the Even
ing Post say that the window glass trust
is not a direct result of the Mckinley
and Dingley tariffs? Has the democratic
party, as a party, ever been regarded as
friend OF glass manufacturers?
STEEL WIRE AND THE TARIFF.
In January, 1899, the American Steel
& Wire Company, a trust with 800, 0O0,-
600 capital, was formed. 1t owned the
richest ore mines in the Mesaba range,
from which it procured its ore, trans
ported it in it's own vessels, converted it
into pig iron in it's own furnaces, rolled
it into steel billets in it's own steel mills,
and in its own mills turned it into plain
and barbed wire, and its products could
be sold at profit, cheaper than wire
produced in any other part of the world.
Seven hundred tons of its daily product
were exported. 1t furnished England
with 60 per cent of all its imports of wire,
yet, protected by duties against COMPETE
ton, it raised the price Of wire nails from
$2.O5 per keg in January, 1899, to $4.13
in December Of that year. Since 1897,
the duty has been from one-half to one
cent per pound.
THE WIRE NAIL ROBBERY.
This trust in 1899 charged our own
people at wholesale on basis of 1886
per keg for nails, which it then exported
and delivered to European purchasers at
little upward Of ~ per keg. Will the
Evening Post maintain for a moment
that this trust could maintain such prices
without the aid of the tariff, and will
"any one desiring to tell the truth"
charge the responsibility OF the trust
upon the democratic equally with the
republican party?
DINGLEY BILL AND BORAX TRUST.
You are aware that the richest de-
posits of borax are found in the mines Of
California and Nevada.
The duty on refined borax under the
Dingley bill is five cents per pound, as
against two cents per pound under the
Wilson bill. The borax producers who
availed themselves of this tariff in Janu-
airy, 1899, formed a combination known
as the Borax Consolidated Works, limit
ed, with capital of 100000, and these
rascals, sustained by this tariff, are now
plundering the American people by SELL
ing their borax to American consumers
for about double the price that they
charge the foreigners. Is the democratic
party, as a party, responsible for this
trust, Mr.. Editor? And are people who
believe that the republican party is sole
ly responsible for it untruthful as you
intimate in your editorial? Is this trust
cone of the outgrowths of molern con-
ditions OF tradc?"
SALT Trust EXTORTIONs.
The Wilson bill imposed no duties up
on salt. Under the Dingley bill the
duties on salt in bags or barrels was
twenty cents, and in bulk eight cents per
hundred pounds. These duties, varying
from 80 to 100 per cent, will average
about so per cent, and under their stimu-
lating effect on March 20, 1899, the Ma
tional Salt Company was incorporated,
with $l2,OO0,000 capital. 1t acquired the
greater part OF the manufactures of salt,
and, protected against foreign COMPETE
ton, it has raised the price OF salt about
so per cent. Is this a democratic trust,
Mr.. Editor? Are the men who charge
the sole responsibility for this trust upon
the republican party telling an untruth
as you say in your editorial?
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