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Show SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. The Tin Flat I B dm try. New York Mall and express. Here, for illustration, it the statement of Sowers Brothers of ISrooklyn, a business busi-ness house of high standing, who concede con-cede that they are democrats,, and as such not in favor of protective tariffs generally, but who look with alarm on the fact that this country has been for years at the mercy of foreign speculators, specu-lators, and who are, therefore, putting IfiO.OOO into a fietory building and nearly as much more into machinery (or tin-plate works in Brooklyn. "There is no politics in our tin-plate business," tbey say, adding that, "if capitalists could lie assured that changes in administration or iu congress would not aifet this promising industry, a wo do not believe it should, though we are democrats, they would be even more ready to go into it than they now are." Rut this is not the only linn that gives convincing illustration of what these new duties mean. Here also are Norton liros. of Chicago, who declare that they have been sending Sl.OJil.iXX annually to foreigners lor tin plate, while they have now built, a factory that will have a big share of that milium on its pay roll every year hereafter. "Multiply this one small mill by the scores that are to spring up in other parts of the country," tsy the Messrs. Norton, "and ink yourselves what tho effect will be." |