The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-10-24
THE M'KINLEY d
We will win.
With free sugar and tin.

o metre is made up in rhythmical melod,
- win and "tin" sound as pleasant t
h the ear as 'love" and "dove." But tn
( harmonlzing terminals are employed Q
T u sacrifice of truth. If Difference wei
$ PAD to the latter the couplet woul
undergo a radical transposition and rea
! about as follows:
We are trying to win
with bountied sugar and lead.
Neither the sentiment nor the rhym
of the first couplet is there but the fact
are unimpeached. Facts, however, seen
to be as absent from the Mckinley cam
paign as completely as is tin from tn,
Mckinley badges that is made up with
bit of iron plate coated with lead.
An agent for large dealers in tinplatt
was recently inOhio and secured one of the
famous Mckinley tin medals such as the
major wears upon the breast of his coat
while speaking about the beauties o.
protection. He took it to New York anG
exhibited it to a well known tin car
manufacturing firm in that city. The
firm expressed surprise that anyone
should attempt to foist upon the public
such a palpable fraud, and feeling as
sured that the so-called American tin
plate was a campaign bluff, it authorized
the agent to send the following telegram:
New York, Sept. %, 1891.
Mr. Inp,o- II.alr, a..
Corrugating company, Piqua, Ohio:
i am authorized by Gordon & Dill
worth. a responsible firm here, to offer
you for trevarth or %tregoning tin. 14x2O
plates OF squares equal to Seamans Mar
tin steel, for drawing cold, a price equal
to the price paid to importers at time of
purchase for 1000 boxes if delivered
within six months. Do you wish to
make contract to deliver these goods?
Wire quick at my expense. as below.
j.. Ii. REYNOLDS.
He received the following reply:
PIouA. Ohio. Sept. %, 1891.
j. II. Reynolds, New York:
Thanks for inquiry. but we make terne-
plate only and have sufficient orders
from Il regular customers for the i'm
mediate future.
CINCINNATI CoRRUGATING COMPANY.
There is a wide difference between tin
plate and terncplate. The former is
thin iron plates covered with tin. while
terneplate is thin iron plates covered
with an alloy of lead and tin. The latter
may do for roofing but cannot be used
in the manufacture of tin cans or any of
the numerous domestic articles en-
by families. 1t is poisonous.
But the Mckinley badge is not made of
as good plate as terneplatc. 1t contains
tin. The agent who is thoroughly
posted on all qualities Of tin says there
S nothing about the plate of which the
badge or medal is made that could not
made by any boy. Here is what he
says AS the statement appears in the
\ew \ ork World:
1t is simply a piece Of common sheet
ron plate covered with a cheap and use
plating, which by use of muriatic
cid and a piece of very poor solder could
,e made on any kitchen stove. lie says
hat the plate is worthless for all prac-
zeal purposes. 1t is coated with lead
ats, and If the plate were used for
louschold utensils food placed on them
'ould absorb the poison.
He further adds that the whole coun-
ly around PiGua is laughing at the ef-
Irt to make the people believe Il large
for'the Manufacture of t~inDlate Is
coated at that place. The company has
cen Fwamped with orders for tons Of
ne alleged tinplaic and is placed in a
Arlous predicaIncnt. 1t must stand by
S ~pretentions or the Mckinley cam
aign Will go To smash in Ohip. But it
oes not appear to stand by them. And
ct III the face Of these facts in the face
I overwhelming evidence against tine
'~uthfulness of Mckinley's assertions
lcre are deluded men and newspapers
nat seriously contend that genuine tin
late is being manufactured at Piqua.
fter the Ohio election the scales will
from their eyes. Nothing more will s
heard of the Piqua tinplate works. s
the ensuing presidential cam s
aign they will start up somewhere else, '
II what will republican strikers do
ithout a Mckinley "tin" medal or I
adge?
To a with one hand the mower of
he government upon the property of the I
tizen, and with the other to bestow it :
pom favored individuals to aid private +
nterprises and build up private fortunes |
none the less IA robbery because it is {
one under the forms of law and is G
llled taxation. This is not legislation. t
is a decree under legislative forms. 7
or is it taxation. Justice Miller. c
-
WHAT Is the matter with those Bar
.arbor newspaper correspondents? Not
word hDE lnao con-. ,,,t d.