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Show t WORRIED BY TIN. Our esteemed Democratic contemporary contempo-rary is uaturally worried by the appearance appear-ance in Salt Lake of a shipment of tin which has stamped upon it the word "American. " It endeavors to show The Times that the McKinlky bill is not responsible for the presence of American tin in Salt Lake, and that that great economic measure is not making the production of American tin possible. We are perfectly aware that the tariff j . does not apply to tin ore, but we are also aware that it was not possible to work American tin mines in competition competi-tion with foreign producers until the McKinley bill was passed. Nobody has forgotten the discussion which arose when Major McKinliv went deliberately to work to open the way for the development of American tin mines and the establishment of an American tin industry. The Democrats asserted that we had no tin in this country, and that if we had the manufacture of tin plate under a protective tariff duty high enough to bar the Welsh product from our markets mar-kets would work a hardship upon every man who carried a dinner-pail and every farmer's wife who used milk pans. In the brief time intervening between be-tween the passage of the bill and the congress election for 1890, Democratic tin peddlers perambulated the rural districts and scared the people half to death over this duty on tin. People who had never committed )uch a crime before, voted the Demo-: Demo-: iratic ticket that year in order to keep 4own the price of dinner pails and milk pans. One of the great mines which Major McKinlet said he could speak into life with the tariff, was that of the JTemes- I ral company near Riverside, Cali- f lornia. The shipment of 2,290 pounds sf American tin, which reached this lity Wednesday, came from that Cali- I lornia mine and its works. , Its production there was made pos- eible, at the hands of American capital and American labor, by the heavy duty on tin plate, the absence cf which' had for years made us dependant upon the foreign product. We have benefited our own labor and Increased the market for the products ; cf the farm and the factory by this ' measure. This shipment of pig tin rests very I heavily on the Democratic soul, but it I ought to be an inspiration for all the ; people of Utah to vote the Republican I iicket. |