Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-24

went into effect, as was prophesied by free
traders.
To this pertinent query the Chester
Clarion made the following pertinent
and conclusive reply:
We rise to reply that common sense would
indicate positively that tin cans would be
higher the moment the tariff rate on tin was
raised from one cent per pound to two cents.
Is it to be supposed for a moment that man.
ufacturing concerns are going to sit quietly
and see chance to make a cent per pound
go by and not avail themselves at it? Not il
we depend on their well-known regulations
for exhaustiDg every means their engenuity
can suggest for reducing the cost of produc.
ton without reducing the price. The four
line editorial in the Iribune's last issue, ut
tered in tone of sneering triumph, was
written in the belief that so few people real
ly know whether the Mckinley bill effected
the price of tin, that the insinuation would
remain an unanswered clincher for the g. o.
p. The management of the Chester Canning
Co., of this city, in answer to our query gave
the follwing reply: last year three-pound
tin cans cost so per thousand, and in lots of
100000 they could have been purchased for
81 per thousand; this year the same grade
OF cans cost 500 per thousand in 100000 lots
and more in smaller quantities. Eight dol
lars per thousand difference since the Nc
Kinley bill went into effect. One hundred
thousand cans is not large number for a
amounts to $500. Last year the common
fruit can sold for SOC. per dozen OF good
grade of tin, this year the very poorest and
thinnest grade sells at 55c."
Here is the free coinage questionln nut
shell. The farmer sells a bushel of wheat
for 81. He takes the dollar, at its present
value, to the merchant, who gives him in
exchange 100 cents worth of merchandise.
But, with free coinage, the merchant could
not afford to give him more than so cents
worth Of goods for the low value, so-called
dollar. So with the laborer. His days
work, at 81 per day, would yield him only
so cents worth Of goods, and Mr.. Million
aire, the mine owner, here or abroad, would
pocket 20 cents on every dollar earned. 1t is
a lovely scheme-for the millionaire.-C rys-
tai Mirror.
What an ass an alleged editor is
who scrihbles stuff like the above! If
free coinage were to make dollar
worth only so cents for merchandise,
why would it not be worth only so
cents for labor? If only so cents for
wheat, why not only so cents for car
pentering; if only so cents for bon
nets, why not only so cents for dress
This would make so cents
worth of labor buy so cents worth of
goods, just as it does now. But we
deny your every allegation and defy
the alligator! A dollar contains 412!
grains pure silver, and is worth one
hundred cents. Sometimes this dollar
will buy a bushel and a half of wheat,
and sometimes only bushel; but the
dollar is always worth one hundred
cents and is one hundred cents: no
more, no less-and all sheol can't alter
it. Again, the mfne-owner's dollar
under free coinage would be just the
same as the farmers and laborer's
dollar, and just how the former should
have his dollar worth hundred cents
while the latter's value is twenty cents
less, is something no fellow can under
stand. Come, brother, tell us how
the mine-owner can 'pocket twenty
cents on the dollarn under free COIN
age, if that dollar "goes for" only so
cents, after it is coined? Come, tell
Us! !