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Show sooner or liter they will bo crowned i with success. K.iw m:i-(ri(tb, e-rpital, 1 and it" hnical olt'.'l nr nil at hand, or can Im easily oi;taiMl. Tim alone is wanting to build up the industry, but it la lo be feared in it the VVaNh manufacturer manufac-turer ars uotMirin themswlTee if thy lui-igiim thai ii decade mi.it el:tin b f . it any impivsiion ran t ruado on thi.'i' huvirit-s t y rivals across tho wtter. A v.!' nr two. however, will certainly im'e rvena h-f ir the competition can U really danger vi.v Lodz erj that tium ! It in i'i It i (O-'il t.iai. t -!i A H'iin i i ;,.'i w,l! 'uv it- -n up ihf .'-ifK'.'ssy I ' I T 't tl V-TI.I-h, T 'it !(!' I: IV,' proe.d t,.,i..:.,-: n't t ' ir net wiftTij I that thi. w'dl nitn nbont. Thj W tilou j nri'Hi.:ii- iiri'i h-ive som trotur-aiiling fhainpi'Mis in Ciu'a-4' ami rUev hwre." I One of thi (r-. un Mtion at b;stt b- twi-ti tho (iemm-ratip and rpnblicao I jiartH" U whfiluT w ihul'. tliu onor- moiis biivr'fS and hold it nr cnotintio t' ntn'ui::e .ii;j;:iK:i iiitfr'jslM. Tho I Kni'itli ii:turaily hope lis democrat j wi.l win in thj t-onleat, trit t'hn pnopln i ot llii ro .ntry will M.iml by thn repub-! repub-! Ik-ail iry on the proi,- H;t"iu that it la ; a pariiiiiount duty to mciu'd and hold j tU iii(tn.Jr.7 of siipplyi' j? tUU j ! m.iiket wHb this important product, i i II1K. TIM PLATE l.MH iTHV, On the first of July tho provision of . tho McKiNLEr tariff luw iu relation to , tin-plate will go into effect. Tho probable prob-able effect of the tariff has been widely discussed but it is a foregone j, conclusion that it will result in the estab-, estab-, lishtuent of this mosffimportant industry ; in" the United Mates. Tha democrats have hopod that it would be a failure and for months past their organs have 'loudly proclaimcai that the United States would not make tin plate in lrjerchantable quantities under tho IdoKixLKT or any other act. They have taken a crazy delight in trying to make the publio believe that we would liavt) to continue to patronize England for this product; but the experience of Iho next two years will show them to be badly in error. At a great many points experimental operations have been iu progress, aud in every casathey have proven Intircly satisfactory. As rt result of - th:.se expcrbuenls large -' W-'CiZoJ1- l'rry p.. while"'" establishments are adding liiiiiiug departments, la Philadelphia Philadel-phia ' there will soon be thr.ie large plants in operation.. In Brooklyn there is one very large concern preparing to turu out tin plate on a larga scale.. Iu Pittsburg there ara two concerns turning out plates n nv and two others are preparing to engage in the busiuuss. In Chicago then.) aro two firms lhat will soon bo extensive producers. St. Louis is launching out in the business on a large scale, aud in Cleveland tha iu lus-try lus-try is to bo well represented, while uiiils ara being erected at a half dozen different places in Ohio and Indiana. The McKt.si.nr law provides that if American manufactures lo not make during some year prior to October 1, IVJli, one-third as much tin plate as may bo iuiprotud during that year from Great Britain, tho article will be placed on the free list. The parties interested in-terested expect to reach that production produc-tion in lotiJ, aud they culculata that the Uuitcil States w ill be making more than half of its supply before tho oxpiratiou of live years. The importance of tho subject estmot be overestimated. The importations from England amount to more than t.'U.OO.i.UO annually, a sum which can bu easily saved lo the country aud which will alicrd employment for au army of workmen. Tho iron consumed con-sumed iu tho industry will reach an enormous amount, and its production vill couatihue a very important addition addi-tion to our iron industry. The Welsh makers are naturally alarmed tit the prospect. Thuy havo absolutely controlled the field, ami in the absence cji au adequate tariff in America have been able to prevent the manufacture of tin-plate iu this country. Whenever an attempt hai been made to start mi. Is here the market has been destroyed by the English trust and the venturesome manuracturer lias been compelled to quit tha business. So complete is the organization of the foreigners that when the McKinley bill passed they coolly put the price up in order to make the most out of the trade while it lasted, end it is believed that the trust has always al-ways extorted prices from its American patron that secured it exorbitant profits. prof-its. Ths impression prcvs'is lhat as soon as the manufacture of tin-plate mail have been established here the price of the product will bo run down far below the average of the past. At one stroke the English combination combi-nation will bo robbed of its monopoly and the American consumer w ill secure cheaper tin. That has been the result whenever an important industry has been established in this country by lis aid of the tariff and it will, in all hitmau probability, bold good in this case. The condition of the ne w industry in this country is so favorable lhat many of the Welshmen ara thinking of moving mov-ing their works over hero, while there is a sort of panic, among English papers ou the subject. The British hope that the democrats will come to their relief nfter lb!i2 and send all this vast business back lo tbem. This hope lin Is expression iu the following from Ihe London Financial Times: "As yet, the efforts In this direction made in the states fire perhaps chielly IcuUtiVe, but leiV people doubt that |