Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-23
Tin Plate and the Boston
Herald"
Nesg York Pyess.

hood of their constant cry that no plates
are beng made in this country. under
the encouragement Of the Mckinley bill,
and that none will be made. Either
we can manufacture tin plates in this
country, thereby giving employment to
tens of thousands of men and retaining
here millions of dollars hitherto annual
" sent abroad, or we cannot. II we
can, the Mckinley bill provisions as to
the tariff on tin plates is wise. If not,
it unwise The PRESS has maintained
that tin plate factories would be built
up under that law; that they are already
started, and that American plates are
being produced now, although the duty
does not 90 into effect till July l. We
stand prepared to prove these state
ments.
As for the main proposition that tin
plate is being made IL this country,
THE PRESS has in its possession letter
from the st. Louis Stamping Company,
st. Louis, Mo, of which F. G. MED
RINGHAUs is president, dated April l,
1891, from which we quote:
We are combining ourselves at present
entirely to tin plates, which we are to-
day consuming in the manufacture of
our regular line of goods. We are,
however. building a very large addition
to our present rolling mill, which we
expect 20 have ready in July. when we
will be III position to turn out a much
larger quantity of plates than we will
be able to consume ourselves and will
then be in the market. Will state fur
Their that we are making class of tin
| plate the quality of which has never
been equaled by anything ever import
ed.
We have the highest authority for
stating that p H. LAUFMAN & Co. of
Apollo, Pa, are making about 100 box
es per day of TX. best steel coated terne.
or roofing plate, 14x20 inches, which are
classed under the general head of "tin
plates" as are the foreign. This firm
was able to begin manufacturing as
early as February, because they had
plant for making light sheet iron and
steel These plates are sold by II. R.
DE MLT & CO., No. 25S Water street,
Of our city, within five blocks of THE
PRESS building, whose price for this ar
| ticle is as low as the same article in
English plate. The quality is excellent
and sells freely. Every ingredient. with
the exception of the tin used for coat
ing, which comes from the Straits of
Malacca, as does most OF that used in
Europe, is American; the steel plate
which is its base is American; j. was
made by American machinery and by
American workingmen; it is in fact
American plate as much as plate made
in England is English. We ha box
of this roofing plate in our window, and
viii gladly send another box from the
regular daily receipts by Messrs. De
MmT e Co, freight paid, to the Boston
Herald if it will place the same on exhi-
bition in its office window, to show what
the Mckinley bill has done in encourage
ing this great industry. The plates
will bear comparison with the best i'm
ported article, and the firm named can
deliver from their store fifty to a hum
dred boxes at almost any time, and So
licits orders.
1t has never been anticipated that tin
plates would be made here before the
duty went into effect. 1t was under
stood that it would DE great under
taking to start tie industry at all. Yet
here we are two months before the duty
is imposed with product from one fac
tory alone of about 100 boxes daily,
which is sold at the same prices as the
foreign product. All that has so far
gone by in reference to this industry
has been ,anticipatory, but the results
are already here to show that the indus
try Is started and that it promises to
grow to enormous proportions. Tin
plate establishments are being con
structed at various points, designed to
begin work on large scale as soon as
the higher duty takes effect. and if the
Herald will stop looking at all it sees in
the United States through spectacles
with English lenses 1t will not only not
indorse the ''tin plate liar" who has
been altogether too common in the free
trade press. but will also have the pa
triotism to put the box of American tin
plate we offer it in its window and in
dorse it as an American product
The point of most pertinence in all
this discussion, however, is that protec-
tionists claimed we could make tin plate,
if properly protected, the difference be-
ing entirely wage necessity. 1t was