Show A TOUGH IRON QUESTION It was stated the other day that great corsternatlon prevails in many parts of Pennsylvania in regard to the failure of tho gas wells the product of which has been so extensively used as cheap fuel in the foundries of Pittsburg Allegheny City and other places But this in not the trouble the iron only manufacturers are having The high protective tariff was framed to repel imports of cheap foreign iron produced by pauper labor II But It transpires that the iron of mines at Bur mingham Ala can bo made into pigs and shipped direct into the Iron regions of Pennsylvanio and Ohio considerably cheaper than the owners of furnaces in those states can or do sell it for the southern south-ern railroads making low rates so that this can be done What now is to bo done to protect the Pennsylvania ironmongers Alabama pig iron be made for leas can money as is contended con-tended than Russia or Englana can make it for Alabama then does not neod protection pro-tection whilst Pennsylvania will havo to be protected against Alabama or shut up shop entirely Indeed there has been a good deal of shutting up of shops there lready from precisely this cause And why not If the policy of exclusion is good between nations it is good between states |