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Show Tiik lon idle tin-plate mills on the Ohio river '.mc1-r the slimvilant of t.;e new tariiT aie strrtiitK on ..uain a id aro tiir-iCtf out au ex ! ce'le it anicio of tin-plate which can le fold 1 lower than tho Fncll-h product. Object lea. t sous on the eiU ct o.' the protective tariff such as this wits ailed many votes in tho Ohio eltc-t:ou eltc-t:ou this year. They win carry Major MeKix-I.sv's MeKix-I.sv's majority well up into the tens of thousands. thous-ands. '.'nit rudo Hu,. The American tin plate industry wil give the present generation one of the most convinciug illustrations of the bo-tiefu-eucejof the protective tanlf that recent industrial history has furnished. So long as the F.uglixh manufacturers were able to control this market they could prevent the starting of the industry, indus-try, the process being tho very simplo one of putting prices down to a very low point until the threatened competition competi-tion was straugled. The knowledge that this could be done at any time has deterred Amuricans from encasing iu the business, but the preseut tarilf makes such tactics too expensive; the industry will be built up here and it will be demonstrated that we have been paying exorbitant priec3 to the foreigners. foreign-ers. The condition referred to by the Hun it noted by many industrial writers writ-ers and it seems probable that American Ameri-can manufacturers will be able to lower the price of plate almost from tho start. |