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Show i p'ate in thin country, am) in a very few i 1 years we will be manufacturing our en lire supply at an annual saving to the nation of more thon $.'0,'MK),(l(KJ. Ths advantago to bo derived is so plain that no buncombe can obscure it in ths minds of the people. The trouble with the democrats i that thry do not want our country to lake this business from tins English. They did not want the United Mte.i to manufacture itn own iron and steel: the? have fought every proposi'ion to establish home Industries, and so far as tluir attitude toward their own country in concerned they are more like brigands than anything els I WHO A UK THK HKIUANH9? j So when Akmopu it Co., export their goods in cans made of the imported tin, they will get all tneir tariff money back but S-iit. Fruits and vegetables, as well j as meats, canned for the domestic innr-i innr-i ket. lnusi be suh.jicted to the prices added by the high duty on tinplaty.aud m that manner our people will be filched out of !i0.0ihi a year, under the plea and pretense of protecting a bud- j dicjj industry which bus no existence j whatever. No brigandage in l urk; y i I or southern Italy can surpass tho mo- nopolistic met hods of capturing citizens j aud cutting their ears o!V. The JI nthl. And yet the Ji.ruld may search ' through tho grocery stores with a tine teeth cemb without finding canned j goo Is --p. in wid -h thero has been any ' a teatice in price because of tne ,Mt- j Kim.ky law. Ak.uolS Si Co. paid very little more for tho 1,)0 tons of tin-piate tin-piate to which our free trade contemporary contem-porary refers than it would have cost j them befare the Jl Kinlkv law went into effect. Tho duty paid was $ti)00. j I'nder the old law it would have been so the increase was only J::',1;;, or less than li'J a ton. The Welsh manufacturers have cut their prices in order to got into this market, and it is probable that the total extra cost of ' that shipment of tin-plate was less than ! $15 per ton, or something like a third of a cent per can for each can mado ! from it. These figures will show why it is that ' the consumer is not paying auy more1 for canned goods. On the other hand, : the tariff is encouraging the establish- ment of the business of making tiu- j |