The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-18
Difference Between a Saucepan
and an Ocean Steamer

Saucepans are up.
They have been up for some years.
But the further up saucepans go the
lower tomato cans and corned beef cans and oil
IN B.~Not the kind of oil-can you have.
but the kind in which Mr.. Rockefeller ships oil
70 foreign parts.)
Some years ago a big duty was put on tin.
plate. This was to protect American labor
and build up American industry"
The effect was to make imported tinplate
cost more in America than 1t did anywhere else
in the world, and that made the price for
American-made tinplate high.
So every dinner-pail, milk-pan, saucepan,
lineup. collander and other tin utens cost the
workingman and his housewife more money.
American labor found some work in tin
mills. but at no higher wage than in any other
similar labor.
tinplate trust was formed under shelter
Of the tariff. and several young men became
multi-milionaires.
The man with the dinner-bucket and the
woman with the saucepan Clipped in for these
new fortunes So did the man who put tin
roof on house and the baby who had new
rattlebox.
The largest users of tinplate the Stand
ard OIL Co., which exports kerosene in cans.
and the Gamers who export meats vegetables
and other things, timed
The high price of tinplate cost the oil
trust. the beef trust and other Gamers millions
Of dollars year. So the trusts had the law
fixed by congress that the owner of any tin
plate that HAD BEEN IMPORTED might get
the duty back If he could prove that he had
shipped the tinplate out of the country again.
That is. the United States treasury gave back
the duty.
That was fine for the oil trust and beef
trust, but tough on the tinplate trust because it
put low price foreign tinplate.
So now the tinplate trust asks and Messrs.
Payne. Cannon and Aldrich agree, that il
Armour, Rockefeller ct al will buy trust-made
tin they can collect back from the United States
treasury an amount of money equal to what
plate had been imported. This is called
drawback" which is not a bad name from
some viewpoints. The drawback is to be col
lected on all tin sent out in the form of cans.
Now all the trusts win. You pay more
for your dnner-bucket and saucepan and then
you rebate-through the treasury-any similar
overcharge to those eminent patriots the beef,
oil and allied trusts.
There are lot of people who want a ship
subsidy to build up merchant marine"
1t is held the steel ships can be built much
more cheaply abroad than here that We cannot
compete.
beams. The price is high in America.
American material for steel ships Is sold
abroad at about three-fourths the price charged
for it here at home.
Now let's see II the saucepan rule won't
work in the case of the ocean steamer
Suppose it be agreed that all imported
steel that goes into the construction of Ameri-
can-built ships be admitted duty free the
shipbuilders get drawback" That would
result in saving many times greater than the
proposed subsidy, and will make our ship
builders able to hold their own.
II a subsidy is paid 1t must come out OF
the pockets of the man with the dnner-bucket
the woman with the saucepan and the baby
with the rattle (when he gets big enough to
have q pocket), but they are already chipping
in for the beef trust, the oil trust and the tin
plate trust.
To rebate (drawback) the duty on steel
ship material would only sting the steel trust
3 aS
IN California and Pennsylvania as 1t does in
Scotland and Russia.
This country must have saucepans and ocean