Show repeal poal the tin duty if tho the manufacturers of tin plate alone were concerned they might lind ill the increased duty on their product some compensation for the duty of 4 1 cents a pound on pig tin which unless ic ie pealed will go into operation on jul july I 1 next nest but there are manufacturers who derive no benefit from the tin plate duty and who will ho be compelled to pay the chief share of tho the duty on pi pig tin to these manufacturers the exorbitant duty on tile the raw material mat aerial which they are obliged to import will bo be a manifest iniquity already thero there has been a coon conr increase in the imports import of tin in antica anticipation pation of the ho duty should congress adjourn without repealing this duty there would bo be large speculative importations of tin between march 1 4 and july 1 and many manufacturing interests using the material would suffer from the heavy increase creasa in in ili its cost A failure to repeal this duty on tin would bo be inexcusable on the part of t the h a senate in consideration of tile tho fact that not a protected interest could be served in the least by its maintenance ahila many a protected interest would suf suffer ferby by it the blarney peak mines in dakota anti and the Te Tern mescal escal mines of tintin california of which there were such glowing in accounts in tariff organs and congressional speeches when the mckinley bill was in process of incubation yuli uld no product had these mines been as prolific flu in tin as was pretended there would have been no need of protecting theta them since they have utterly failed to realize the speculative hopes concerning them they ha have vo just as little need of protection tec tion whatever may be said of other features of the mckinley tariff tho the duty on oil pis pig tin was passed in total misapprehension of the facts the duty is in down light truth a palpable fraud upon lapori congress anti and upon the country there is no doubt that mr MeY mckinley duley was as much deceived on this subject as anybody eue die putting faith in the stock jobbing jalcs of th e wonderful wealth of the tin mines of D dakota ketta he believed beliki ed that a duty on foreign tin would so rapidly develop the domestic pi t as to entirely supply tho homo market assuming tile tho facts to be true the duty on tin was entirely irk in harmony with th the rest of the mckinley tariff but bince the fraud iron of the thing has been exposed no protectionist can have any reason for maintaining the duty that has grown out of it neglect of the senate tu to core concur r in the house bill to repeal this of the mckinley McKin lcy tai iff would be in wanton diar disregard agard of important industrial interests philadelphia record |