| Show INCREASED DM ON TIN this day july 1 witnesses an increased duty on tinplate tin plate heretofore tho tariff has been only 1 cent per pound but s clause in the mckimley McK ihley goes aiuto effect today raises the duty to 2 2 10 congress gave six months notice to importers of the increase of duty and during this time much tin has been chipped to this country and now lies in the ware houses though the market is thus flooded american energy is not dormant and already seven tinplate tin plate works aro in successful operation in tho united states while eighteen more companies have organized and will soon commence work before the prospect of a protective tariff not a pound of tinplate tin plate was manufactured in t his coun many had the extreme gall to say that it could not be made in UNCLE SAMS domain they thought it would bo too cosily cn experiment to try to foster tinplate works where even the atmosphere was against us to say nothing of unskilled labor and a thousand and one other minor but the same class of men objected when it was proposed to foster the steel rail industry in this country and they have continued and will continue to object to american manu factories whenever loyal citizens stand ready to protect them they would to day continue to send to foreign shores from twenty five to thirty millions of dollars yearly for so a product as tinplate rather than see tinplate tin plate works existence at home creating work for various kinds of laborers and business for our rail ways and but these foreign country loving democrats may watch the workings of a wise protective tariff on tinplate tin plate and see if it will not work as it did in the case of steel rails and as it has done in many other instances of home industries dus tries good people of utah let tinplate tin plate be an object lesson for you campara the prices on your fruit cans and tin ware one year after the mckinley tariff has cone into effect with the prices one year before This will bi a good way of determining whether protection is a good thing or not |
