The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-06-18
WORTH1NGToN. MINI. JUNE ls, 1881.
TIN AND IRON.

Ex-Gov. John H. Gear has written a
timely lette: to the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican in regard to the intimate re-
lation between the tin industry and
that OF iron, and the effect Of the pres
ent tariff on the development of both
in this country, in which lie says:
1.-The editor Of the Standard told the
truth that the object of the Mckinley
bill was to foster the manufacture of
the iron aud steel industry of the
country
Especially is this so when it is taken
into consideration that ninety-six to
mnety-six and half pounds of COM
mercial tin is iron or steel, and it is a
fact that the quantity of tin used cuts
no figure in comparison to the iron or
steel plate
The fact is that the cost of the me-
tallic tin used to coat the sheet iron or
steel in 100 pounds OF commercial tin
is but 63 to ~ cents, the balance being
sheet iron or steel.
It may he we'll to Call the attention
of the Standard to the fact that the
American people paid to foreign coun-
tries IN 1889, the sum of $233, ,O0O, 900
for tin.
If the tin used in the United States
can be made at home and the money
saved to American labor which now
goes mainly to England, it seems to
Inc it is good policy.
Pig iron is the base Of all forms of
manufactured iron. Now to make one
ton OF pig iron it requires two tons of
iron ore; two tons of coal and one of
limestone, all Of which are raw mater
ials worth praci ically nothing until
they are utilized by labor. Pig iron is
worth Sis TO $22 per ton.
10 make the ton of pig iron into
sheet iron or steel costs Il good deal of
money; hence, it will be readily seen
that the duty was placed Oh tin in the
Mckinley bill to foster tie manufac-
ture Of iron aud steel plate in this
ccnntry.'
Our democratic friends had much to
say last fall about the enhanced price
OF the workingman' dinner pail;' but
they will find in the near future that
the American w0rkingman dinner
pail' will be made from American ore
mined and manufactured by American
labor. and that the tweuty-three mil
lions 0! money now Sent abroad for tin
WILL he kept in the packets of the
pail will be rs cheap as now.
Our democratic friends also say that
on July l we are to see much higher
prices IN tin.
do not think so. On Saturday last
was at Ottumwa and made u call Oh
the Johnston Eufiler company, zone of
lowa'S tlnuriSliug mauufactOlics,) a
concern that use S u car load of tin a
month. Their superintendent showed
Inc Il letter from their broker through
whom they buy their tin, and by their
permission made the following ex
tract: The plates (tin) must pay tn?
nr" duty 2-lu per pound: but the
makers are auXio'l> at present T." make
their prizes for July shipment from
England so low as to cOunteract to a
cons ider;'b'eA extent he extra duty
The editor OF the Standard may want
tn know Why tie English maker oF Tin
is willing to max" to the American
consumer practically The same price
after the new duty, which goes int"
effect July !, that lie is selling at un-
der the old duty.
The reasnn is that the English pen-
pie know. and none know better, that
the American manufacturer, with fair
protection will give to the Amcrlcan
people better tin at low rates, and that
to get into the United States market.
the English maker has got to sell
under American competiti"n at lower
rates than he has in the past"