Show THEY WILL SOT A democratic paper says projectionists protectionists aaeree that they have reduced the price ef sugar by makini it free and reduced other articles by reducing the tariff and aten go on to show that they have cheapened tm plate by railing the tariff democrats cannot understand how reducing the tariff on sugar should make that araj cle cheaper while in creasing the duty on other should also make them i leip sr their mauds appear too befogged to realize that abw 0 is a difference between af protective tariff and a tariff for revenue only I 1 we will explain this matter again i and perchance some democrat will gel the correct A protective tariff IB davied on each articles only as can readily be produced at homo in sufficient quantities to supply the home market A tariff for revenue only such as democrats favor is levied on articles that cannot bo supplied by this country A tariff placed on coffee would never promote its growth in sufficient quantities to supply the home market because we have not a climate adapted to coffee growing so with sugar we have only beon able in the past to make 8 per cant of the home consumption and of course the tariff was necessarily added to the foreign with tin plate it was far different conr steel works of which material tin plate is mainly produced were already the best of the world and every indication seemed to point to the successful manufacture of tin plate in case a duty waa put on the foreign article to give our home shops a fair chance to compete with old establishments employing cheap labor in foreign lands in the short time the tariff has been m force much acme tin plate has been produced as increase and home competition becomes active the price will be forced down and americans will get cheaper tin plate than ever before |