Arizona republican., 1891-04-23
THE REAL "TlN PLATE llAR.r
American Tin Plate Is Made Right Hcr
 In the United states.

American Tin Plate Is Made Right Here
 In the United states.
 Mir. w. c. Cronemeyer, of the United States Iron and Tin Plate company, of Demmler, Pa., has written letter in re- ply to an article in The New York Times of Feb. g. The Times houndered around and eldeavored to show that the sample, of tin plates sent out from the company's works were not the product of American labor and American material, but only succeeded in showing that the tin used in coating the sheets was imported. MT. Cronemeyer's letter, addressed to the gentlemen who had ordered a quantity of the tin plates from the company $ mills, is given below:
 UNITED STATES IRON AND TIN PLATRl
 COMPANY uIMTrEDl,
 DEMMLER, Pa., Feb. Il. Jas. L. Miller, Esq, New York city:
 DEAR SIR-Your favor of the 9th inst. has been received, and also a sample piece of our make of tin plate as distributed by the Harlem Republican club of your city, and a copy of The New York Times of Feb. s.
 When you gave us, through our New York house, the order for some newly made tin plates, we did not know for what purpose you had placed the order, and we sent it in good faith as Q sample of our product, with the hope that in course of time we could count you among our customers as a consumer of "home made tin plate" Had we known that you in. tended to give our work such extensive adver. Using by means of the same wewoUld probably have requested you to desist for little while for our greatest trouble just at present is too much newspaper talk, and In consequence our correspondence ia far more than any ordinary man can get away with.
 What we need just now is to be let alont until about July 1, when the tin plate clause Of the Mckinley bill will go into effect. By that time we and others will be ready to demon. strato that we are not "tin plate liars" as The Times takes pleasure in calling us, but that we are honest, hard working American citizens who are anxious and willing to devote our brain, hands and money to demonstrate to the American people the feasibility of supplying the home depand for timed plates sheet iron and sheet steel coated with tim in this country at an eventual cost of not above present selling prices.
 However, the statement which the Harlem club had printed on those little samples is true and correct with all that. The material used for those plates which we sent you has been produced from American iron ore, was first turned into pig metal in American blast fur. naces, American steel works converted the pig metal into steel billets, the steel billets were rolled into thin sheets of steel, the latter were piCkled, or cleaned of scale, with American acid, and all the work performed was done by American workmen-that is, workmen either born in this country or who have, by their own free will, chosen America as their home. The only ingredient contained in those plates which is of foreign origin Is the tin used for coating 0rom 2]3 to pounds of foreign tin to every loo pounds of American steel platesl
 During the last ten years the explanation that the so-called tin plates are not made from tin ore, but from iron ore, and only washed with light coating of tin, has been SO often made by the American press generally that any person who yet talks about the impoSsi. bility of making tin plate for want of the tin ore reveals gross ignorance. The bulk of the tin used Iy the English manufacturers is i'm. ported by them from the Dutch East Indies or from Autralia, and we can import it from there as well.
 Yes, sir, the tin plates we have sent you arc as genuine American as the tin plates imported from Wales are Welsh, and a good deal more American than the man who wrote that ma licious article in The New York Times to which you refer.
 We don't pretend that we are now producing millions of dollars worth as yet, but we expect to do so at some early day. We certainly did not spend thousands of dollars for the glory of supplying political clubs with campaign argu- mcnts, however welcome they are when they are willing tO help along a common cause We have entered the industry as business men and we mean business. Yours truly,
 w. c. CRoNEMEYER.