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Show William McKinlcy's wisdom has been once moru attested. Prior to 1800 we produced no tinplate, but depended upon Europe, just ns we have always depended upon Europe for our dye-stuffs. dye-stuffs. McKinley believed that the United States should make its own tinplate, and be independent in-dependent of Europe. He put n protective ratu in his tariff bill and immediately we began to build up a tinplate industry. Democrats had declared de-clared that a protective duty meant a higher nrlcti for tin, but thu new Industry grew so rap-Idly rap-Idly that home competition reduced the price. If the democrats had been given their way wo would still bu buying tin in Europe. If thu republicans re-publicans had been ns wise in legislating for dyos as they wore In legislating for tin, we would not havo been embarrassed whon the war cut off trade with Germany. Never again will wo place ourselves in a position where severance of communication with Germany will cause us serious seri-ous difficulty. |