The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-05-20
SAUCEPAN AND AN OCEAN STEAMER.
Saucepans are up.


They have been up for years
But the farther up saucepans go the lower tomato
and corned beef cans and cans may CO.
On. B-Not the kind of ocan you have, but the kind
in which Mr. Rockefeller ships oil to foreign parts
There is a reason
Some years ago big duty was put on tnplate. This
was to protect American labor and ''build up Ameri
industry
The effect to make imported tnplate cost in
America than did anywhere else in the world and that
made the price of American-made tinpate high
So every dinnerpail pan, saucepan, lineup, col
lander and other tin utens cost the workngman and
his housewife more money.
American labor found work in tin mills but at
higher wage than in any other similar labor.
tlnpate trust was formed under shelter of the tariff
and several young men became multi-millionares.
The man with the dinner bucket and the woman with
the saucepan Clipped in for these fortunes So did
the man who put tin roof house and the baby who
had tin rattebox.
The largest of tnpate the Standard Oil Co.,
which exports kerosene in cans and the who
port meats, vegetables and other things, timed.
The high price of tinplae cost the oil trust the beef
trust and other millions of dollars year. So the
trusts had the law fixed by congress that the of
any tinpate that had been imported might get the duty
back he could that he had shipped the tnpae out
OF the country again. That is the United States treasury
gave back the duty
That fine for the oil trust and beef trust but tough
on the tnpate trust because put low price foreign
tinplae. So the tinplae trust asks and Messrs
Payne Cannon and Arch agree that if Armour Rookie
Teller ct al will buy smade tin they collect back
from the United States treasury an amount of money equal
to what would have been paid in duty if the tnplate had
been imported. This is called drawback" which is
not bad name from viewpoints The drawback is to
be collected all tin sent out in the form of cans.
Now all the trusts win You pay for your dinner
bucket and saucepan and then you tethrough the
treasuryany similar overcharge to those eminent pa
trots, the beef oil and allied trusts.
There lot Of people who want ship subsidy to
"buld up merchant marine" 1t is held that steel
ships can be built much cheapy abroad than here
that we cannot compete
There is big tariff on steel plates and beams The price
is high in America.
American material for steel ships is sold abroad at about
threefourths the price charged forit here at home
Now let's if the saucepan rule won't work in the
of the ocean steamer
Suppose be agreed that all imported steel that goes
into the construction of American built ships be admitted
duty free the shipbuders get ''drawback." That
would result in saving many times greater than the pro-
posed subsidy, and will make pbuilders able to hold
their own
If subsidy paid must out of the pockets of
the man with the dinner bucket, the woman with the
saucepan and the baby with the rattle (when he gets big
enough to have pocket but they already chipping
In for the beef trust the oil trust and the tnpae trust
To rebate (drawback) the duty steel ship material
would only sting the steel trust, and at that would only
make it sell cheaply in California and Pennsylvania
as it does in Scotland and Russia.
This country must have saucepans and ocean steamers
Somebody must be sung
We gentle readers are being sung for the saucepans
Why not sting the steel trust for the steamers?
Ihat would be drawback, for fair wouldn't it?
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