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Show ' ZZrrZ TARIFF TECUSHTS. The Democracy ahould hold their eager ones in leash for a few months longer. Many abuses have been practiced under the tariff, but thia has been 1 because congress haa neglected ita duty. Had a tariff commission, made up of resolute Republicans and Democrats, been appointed, that commission could easily have unearthed the wrongs that have) j;rown upon the "system and exposed end righted them.' The Country ia united in ita demand for a real tsril revision, but if any party intimates that the whole system ia wrong and demands a return to something like the Wilson bill as it went up ; from the house, that party will go down aa it did before. We mention the matter because. Mr. Heflin of Alsbsrfia, on Saturday, in .his speech, fore-h4nwed fore-h4nwed that blessed, dsy, which he seemed te think was already growing roseate in the eaat, v hen the American people were to came inte their own, and as one result of the protective tariff told how bene fk-iariee of the tariff had imported for-e for-e rners to do the work which Amrriesns should do. T! -re are aeveral pointa of view from which to ! k at that subject. The first is that as a rule native na-tive born Americans esn do better than work in f toricn. So we suspect thst if factory owners cvpr hrportnd foreigners to do that -class of werk, it v to subtitute them for another class of for-t for-t i who had so far become Americana that ! I become too saucy and exacting to make t i reeable. Then the foreigners .who came 1 I to have fond and clothing on thia aide of the ' ro,1J. while were the gentleman from- Ala-i Ala-i to have his wsy, he would have to pay f r t''e imported goods and included in the, price '1 1 1 likewise the board and rlothing-of the ":;es. "And if the gentleman from Alabama . I (I vote about thirty minute to the study of t' f; ifstinn he will discover the important truth , ' i t no aatioa be ever yet tried the, experiment v, . h he by indirection recommends, nsmely, to ft l -ii;,;e raw material for manufactured goods, f ,tt his not been drsined of money and ita buai-r:--s paralyzed within three years. There is but i - is ex ,., tinn to this ritle, and that was when the e .-ct of California and the return in gold 1 i t:e day of wrath off seven yeara. Apropos of the sbove a little reference te tin r'.-tte may not be out of place. Tin plate consists 8 ! ply of shwts of iron being dropped into molten t'.i. Wale a had a practical monopoly - of the ' i iTiuT.iclure. The tin plate . was. sold in this nuctry at a high price, except when some Amer-i, Amer-i, ,ii tried to compete, and then the price waa put down until the American inatitution waa closed. Cut in the McKinley tariff a stiff duty was laid u-i'u tiu plate. The Democracy was frantic. Not f ' n to express themselves, they sent out through 1 the ulJ west states their orators in the form of poUltrs with loads of tin implements, and the j nl.lii-rs, were instructed to. with becoming Borrow, t '1 the old ladies thst this wss their last chanee to j ,rrhe tinware; that by the next year tinware would be higher . in price than depreciated ailver. II was the moat effective oratory th'e party ever prt-scnted to the people. The Democratic eandU cte urn elt-cted president. But in the meantime some sj !cn li j tin piste works were erected on our Mil. wi.h machinery superior to any in Walea, a better ar:!. ! of tin plate waa turned out and the price -v.au not advanced, The reault the second year i t'.a keeping in thia country of $18,000,000 which bt f re that had gone to Walea.. And now i read that iu the first eight months of the present pres-ent fiscal year the imports of pig tin amounted to t3,0,)0,C J pounds, and that thia eonntry'a exporta of tin plate exceeded all records, amounting to 24,000,000 pounda. That, together with filling the needs of the country at home, shows how gigsntie tbe industry baa grown to be. As ths chief weight of tin piste is the iron which is dipped in the tin, is it not a pity that all our tin platj makers are not iJIe and that all that iron cannot be purchased at tin plate pricea from England! The production of t.'n plate for the calendar year in the United .States amounted .to 1,371,000,000 pounda. If we deduct the 68,000,000 pounda of pure tin, imported in eight months, and add a corresponding amount fr the balance of the fiscal year, w have 102,-'l 102,-'l OX 3 pound. Deducting thia from the total ii.anufacture, we have 1,269,000,000 pounds, r i.l 'V0 tons of sheet iron which, thanks to the JIcTiLley Uw, we did not hsve to import from Y.V. a. an! which to prepare gave many workmen j-n " -.'Reemployment. -. t r.'lcman from Alabama should read up !. |