Show A BEAu TKfrfcATE FACTORY I It is announced that the Illinois Steel company will soon start a genuine genu-ine tin plate factory in connection with their works The factory is to I I be of large proportions and Is an encouraging en-couraging sign for two reasons First it is an indication that there are tin ores enough produced in the I United States to warrant the establishment I establish-ment by intelligent practical men of Ian I-an extensive business for the utilization i I utiliza-tion of the metal Second that tinplate tin-plate can be manufactured In this I country without the exorbitant tariff by way of protection which was a short time ago pronounced essential I I I to the industry I The McKinley tariff which did so much duty in the protection tin plate argument has been cut down one half I And yet there are business men ready I to enter into the manufacture of tinplate tin-plate under the reduced tariff This too is to be a genuine tin plate manufactory manu-factory Not a little side show like some of those ephemeral institutions which sprung upand went down un 1 der the artificial stimulus of McKin leyism me starting up or new industries and the revival of old and languishing languish-ing concerns show that the prognostications prognosti-cations of industrial ruin indulged in by protectionists were simply political guesswork When the country has had a fair trial of the existing tariff it will be found that the hue and cry against tariff reform was partisan entirely en-tirely A return to the monstrosities of Mc Kinleyism will scarcely be attempted and if it should be will utterly fall in the light of experience and the benefits of the change that has come Besides the Republican majority will have I enough of the currenc to currency question engage Ii en-gage their attention without attempting attempt-ing any further to tinker the tariff |