Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — Tin Plate Liars. [ARTICLE]

Tin Plate Liars.

£ The Holyoke Free Press, one of the leading Democratic papers of Massachusetts, has deserted the Democrats and turned Republican. The too evident instrumentality of impending free trade in causing the hard times, was the reason for the change. It was the same cause that was mainly instrumental in producing the Republican land slide in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, and the same that will cause a similar but much larger and more significant result in Ohio the second Tuesday in November.

It cates several years for the country to recover from the effects of such a panic as that through which we are passing. The Democratic party is not doing anything to alleviate it, and there is no probability that it will. The people will continue to nurse their wrath against the party in potfer for the next three years, and will smiir ii every chance they get. In 1896 they will elect a Republican President. The recent election in this city points in that direction, and the Journal predicts that other pointers will follow.—lndianapolis Journal. Tb.e Nebraska methods in whitecapping are more novel than commendable. A number of the W C T. U,, of Osceola, and alleged leading ladies of the city, inveigled a number of young girls into a patk after dark, and proceeded to whip them unmercifully, and weuld have tarred and feathered them, had not two of the victims broke away and gave the alarm. The W. C. T. U. ladies got their victims into their power by forging letters, to which they had signed the names of male friends of the girls. It was a most outrageous and brutal piece of work, and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators, who have all bet-n identified and arrested, will receive an adequate punishment.

This country is not needing the repeal of the Sherman law so badly as it is needing the settlement of the silver question, on the basis of knowing that the coinage of depreciated dollars is not to be continued indefinitely. In this point of view, the compromise measure so nearly agreed upon last week, would probably have been about as effectual in restoring confidence as would have been absolute repeal. But Dictator Cleveland had laid down his dictum for unqualified repeal, and nothing but unqualified repeal will receive his signature. The greatness of Grover is a much more important element in theadministration than the prosperity of the people.

If the wizard Edison were to take up the problem of aerial naviga’ion he would probably have a practical airship completed in a year’s time. As it is, the progress towards the solution of the airship problem is rather slow. The moat promising- developements in that line are being made by I’rof. Maxim, the celebrated inventor of the Maxim guns. He is working out the problem in a scientific but common sense way and if he does not succeed in making a practical airship he will go a long ways towards helping solve the difficulties for some more successful inventor. His machine is expected to be sustained in and moved through the air, through the combined action of screw propellers to force it forward and of large aeroplanes, on

the kite principle, to hold it up-. The aeroplanes act as parachutes to let the ship down easy when the journey’s end is reached, or the propelling machinery ..gets out of order.

No man plants his corn in the first snows of winter. No manufacturer dependent on protection invests his capital in building and products., when the free • trade snows are falling. The McKinley law still stands just as the soil exists but their is nothing in prospect. The present administration has blighted industry without repealing the McKinley bill. It was not necessary to do it. No man is foolish enough to branch out or manufacture ahead of demand and no jobber is foolish enough to order goods for future sale.

Naturally everybody waits to see what protection his business is to have. No man would commence a house in Holland after the elevation of a ruler pledged to remove the walls which keep out the sea. The walls may remain but confidence in the present and future is gone and progress stops. The Democratic party is to blame for not trying their free trade theories at once. If they are wrong the sooner the fact is pracically demonstrated the better for all concerned. The McKinley law started tbe country on a career of prosperity such as neither this country nor any other ever saw equalled, but it is powerless to maintain that prosperity with a party in power pledged to its repeal.

The American Economist publishes .a quarterly statement of the pounds of tin plate produced in the United States since July 1, 1891, . First quarter from July 1, 1891, to Sept. 30, 1891, 826,922 pounds, showing an increase for every quarter all through. For the last quarter, April 1, to June 30,1893, 30,543,587. Total since the McKinley act passed of 113, 465,588. The article closes with the following: The 113,465,921 pounds of tin and terne plates manufactured in this country during the two years in which the McKinley tariff has been operative have been effective not only in reducing the profits of the Welsh monopolists, but also in furnishing employment to labor iu this country, with its consequent market to our farmers, and reducing the amount of gold that could be called out of this country in payment of foreign indebtedness. All have seen the disadvantages following scarce money during the last five or six months. Secretary Carlisle and his master are torturing every law to not only -prevent any increase in the employment of labor in this country or the retention of money here, but are absolutely trying to destroy this industry, to the end that more men may walk our streets unemployed and hungry, and that the Welsh tin plate works may continue in the future, as in the past, to draw from us some S3O, 000,000 annually for profits, labor and materials.