Show FICKLE TARIFF industries tile the real I 1 nation million at airl tin plate industries are whatever vcr may be sai said I against tile hie if mckinley C bill ly i y lo 10 wicked democrats it I 1 certainly lias has gi given mi us its two great industries indusi amplo in thousands anil thousands I 1 of Am american rican laborers at fabulous wa ways es president II ll arrison amson wing tills th is wonderful i esulto of could not refrain from us all about the tin plato and pearl button industries in his last ines sige before defoi o election it was a 11 settled f fact act with tile t no new york tribune press ind and other high protectionist papers tit that at 11 arrison would lie bo reelected re elected by rn majority because tile the thousands employed in ii these industries Indu indus wo sure to vote the R republican tic ticket ret since election these industries have been of less lessi roil ail orz meu lut but tho the few friends of I 1 still left oc le mind us of these undisputed results of high protect protective ivo tariffs here is one from the new vor press of jan SO 01 in tile year ending june 30 1690 1890 our imports of buttons and button buttion forms were valued at unar n imports of these goods were v ero valued at only 1314 r iu 1891 this explains the unprecedented prosperity which has como come to pearl button workers under the new tariff lias has the press forgotten flirt only one week wee before it ind tile new york tribune hall biad chronicled tile fact that the pearl button workers of new york and brooklyn to about in number hall gono one on out t vii on ike because of a reduction in wages amouri amounting thiL g to at least 3 per week coupled with tho announcement that most of the beail button makers are an aus 5 arians who are ignorant of the customs of this country r well they will soon foon leani the ways of political ind and barill industries but incident incidentally tally the cause of the november slump flump is explained the pearl button woi kora kers like most of the tin plato plate v are borci have not been here lacre lung long enough to vote by lajo the tables maybe may bo turned if these industries can bo be induced to sojourn with us until then but here lies another obstacle that must be overcome the industries do not stick here on the same day jan 30 on aich the pre press paid such a fine compliment to tile the pearl button industry the press dispatches told us that the pearl button factory at eau cl wis about which the republicans arid sr ill so much during the campaign had closed and all because the unappreciative proprietors prie pric tors came to the conclusion that pearl button making in tho the northwest is not a paying investment anil and yet mckinley did his full fall duty to this industry we are told that a line of pearl buttons sold in austria for 10 kreutzer or 4 cents per gross lias has to pay a duty of per cent before it can bo be sold in our markets perhaps the industry aryis is being pampered and petted to toe leath death sad fatel fate I 1 the alio tin plate I late industry is suffering feling suf the same fame fate from the hands of its friends old factories that is old for infants are expiring about as rapidly as new ones are bom A glance at gilr ayers reports on tin plate production shows that of the 5 concerns reporting for the first quarter 1 I 4 had bad either cither gone gane g ane out of the business or decreased their output by the third quarter 1 and that 7 of the 11 reporting for tile second quarter have exhibited the alie same symptoms of decay even alie mckinley tin plato company limited of pittsburg ungraciously dissolved by vote of its stockholders on juno june 4 1 E 02 great preparations were made by mc kinley and liis his friends to develop the untold wealth hidden in our tiu tin mines As soon as our tin plato plate establishments were in good running order they would need tons and tons of pig tin this was to come from our own inexhaustible supplies in california and son south if dakota A ili 0 duty of 4 cents per pound was put on oil pig tin till to encourage the companies that hall had already guaranteed to supply us in a few 3 ears with genuine I american tin E was going to woi k so smoothly and quickly that as tho the mckinley ways and means committee told us by july 1691 1891 when tile duty plate will take effect w e will be independent of wales and tile the adi advanced alicea duty will not enhance the cost to consumers ever body knows to what great disappointment the alio political frends of thear industries were diomed on july 1 u e were not inal making ring I 1 per cent of tile tin plato plate consumed here and wo we have never 3 yet et mado made more than about 3 per cent of our consumption everything to go wrong Nr the Te Tern moscal escal tin mines in california which began to so auspiciously soon showed signs of weakness flike led and then went out of existence all hopes were tinned tallied to harney IIi irney peak south dakota dur ta is contained enough tin to supply the whole world for ages tc conic como wo we acio wei 0 told by eli parkins purl ins and other enthusiastic republicans and ex the whole mountain was but an winton se vile pile of almost pure tin till well to make a 1 long atory 51 short lort the news cimo 0 on reb feb 2 1193 if 13 il that at thy lilt liar har ney peik peak tin till milling company which hall had tided filled past the november election of 1801 had shut down elitle throwing in between and buo inen out of employment perhaps as republicans uro are wont to tell us chest derider pearl button ilia aim tin plate infants are to death a aa s fast as they get old enough lion gh to comprehend the rebuilt of t the she list Jec tion perhaps awl and this cecin moie probable because they began begaii to dec decline jule before bi foro elet biec tion the he strong tariff were too much tor for their its balc calc and mated constitutions it should bo remembered that most of our industries dus tries wco were einfalt ein infants faut a from 10 to loo or more ears inears old with well developed develop cil stomachs when our first congress ipas gave them thein tariff stimulants ot frow from r cent strong slit kinli 1 I being thy the case it be cocoi tile duty of our next nest congress to 0 cease giving tariff stimulants or to pro prep scribe thrisi I 1 or these industries which alu eli have rost us I 1 tens tells of millions illions in of dollars will din before they cut their teeth byron NY holt hoff |