Furthermore. who is to make this tinplate? Itrequiresskilled handling. It is true that in America there may be a few smelters who may prove adepts. hut if a great industry is to be opened the law for the protection of American labor against contract emigrants must be violated and manipulators from Wales brought here. It will not do to say that the man who has been making coffeepots. and who has been discharged because there is no further work for him. can rush over to Pittsburgh the next morning after his enforced suspension in Baltimore and become opulent in remuneration for services in making tinplate. The new tariff bill proposes to increase the cost of plates 40 percent.. therefore. it will require 40 per cent. more capital for a manufacturer of tin vessels to carry the same quantity of raw material.
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