Arizona republican., 1891-05-02
OIL COMPANIES AT WAR.

THE PRICE OF CRUDE PETROLEUM IN OHIO ONLY
 TWO CENTS A BARREL.
 FINDLAY, O., April 23.---An interesting contest is being waged between the Standard and Manhattan Oil Companies for the control of the Ohio field.
 The Manhattan is the most powerful independent company operating in the field and what makes the fight the more bitter Is the fact that the Manhattan is composed of the same men who year ago sold to the Standard the Lima Oil Company for sl ,oO0, ,OJO and then at once reinvested the money in new oil terri tory.
 The Standard has commenced selling Ohio oil for fuel at 2 cents per barrel delivered. In Louisville, Wheeling and Pennsylvania cities and New York and New England 20 cents is the rate made, though it has heretofore been selling at from So 10 75 cents.
 ThIs is home competition, but it is exactly the methods that have always been resorted to by foreign corporations in the absence of Il protective tariff, to break down our young industries, and as they have pauper labor and untold wealth, such contests, without pro- tective tariff, could have but one ending. These contests cannot run against our farmers, because wherever land is plenty labor is dear, and where pauper labor can be had there is no land.
 American intelligence has, in every instance where protection has been given, resulted in the manufactury of the protected article at less cost than that article was sold for before the pro- tection was given, and also in improv- ing the quality. The great howl of the Democracy has been directed at the protection on tin plates. The following article shows how groundless that howl was, and how fully MT. Mckinley and the Republican party are being justified. American tin is already being sold at 30 per cent. less as this statement shows
 AMERICAN TIN,
 ITs MAUFACTURE BEGUN UNDER THE MCKIN- LEY TARIFF LAW.
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 22.-Mr. P. II. Huffman, of Apollo, Pa., who was in Philadelphia yesterday, said the manu- fracture of tin plate under the Mckinley law by American mills had already be- gun. The free traders said the new tariff would not make an American industry of tin plate manufacture, because Wales, with her enormous mines and child labor, which was paid only few cents day, would continue to undeisell the Americans. Mir. Huffman said to re- porter:
 "The tin plate or roofing sheets made in Apollo, Pennsylvania, has already been approved by experts and archi- tects as equal to the best in the market and as good as any of the tin plate i'm. ported. It is purely American pro- duct, containing % per cent steel and lt per cent tin. This is the same as the tin plate we import, and we get our tir from the same place the English ge, theirs."
 MT. Huffman further said that in les; than six months tin plate from foul other mills, whose product would bt equal to theirs, which is 5000 tons pei year, would be thrown on the market and Tn less time than Congress ha' given them they will be able to produce more than the quantity needed.
 "Since we have begun to put Ameri can tin on the market" said Mir. Luff man, "the price has been reduced to $l.5O per box, from i2, yet the competi ton has only begun."