Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20
Pittsburg Manufacturers Still Insist
That 0hio's Governor
Is NOT POSTED ON THE TARIFF.
Glass, Tin Plate and Carpet Men Show the
Fallacy of Figures
MEANT ONLY TO CATCH VOTES WITH

ofthe Mckinley tariff bill. Mr.. Cronemeyer
shows that in his tinned-plate illusions
the Governor is altogether wrong, and Mr..
Loetfier says that if he is correctly reported
he doesn't know what he is talking about.
Mr.. Groetzinger points out the fallacy of
his assertion that carpets are increased
enormously in cost, and other business men
talk along the same line.
Respecting the Buckeye Governors
structures on the "great crime," the increase
of the duty on tin plate, in which he seeks
to show that the farmers, especially, are
taxed some 5000, 900 additional through
the imposition of the duty, w. c. Crone-
meyer, pioneer in the business, said:
THINKS CAMPBELL ISN'T POSTED.
"When Governor Campbell talks about
the duty on timed plate, he plainly shows
that he is not informed on the question at
all He calls it a crime; now let us see
about that. Galvanized iron, which is iron
or steel sheets coated with zinc has to pay
duty of 2T cents per pound, and
we never hear of any attacks made upon
that article of manufacture. Why should
timed or tern plates, which are steel
sheets covered with tin or lead, pay a less
| uuIH. Dl III plCNlOuo pllio
| timed plate was not brought up to an
equality with other iron indust tries, and the
Mckinley bill simply corrected the in
equality. That bill imposes a duty of %
cents per pound on timed plate, and that is
.3 of cent less than what the manufactur-
lers and officials of the Amalgamated
| Association of Iron and Steel Workers
deemed necessary to put this trade
on an equal footing with the rest Of the iron
and steel industries. When Mr.. Campbell
says that the tin badge used at political
meetings is made from imported iron dipped
in foreign tin and made by foreign work.
men he is altogether mistaken. Proof will
be forthcoming within a week that timed
plate manufactured from American steel,
and coated with tin imported from Singa-
pore, where the English get the bulk of
| their supply, has been made in this country
in commercial quantities and has been found
superior to the Welch product.
BOUND TO HOLD THE MARKET.
sI see by printed statements thai D. r.
Jenkins, a leading producer near Syracuse,
SAWS that the Welshmen have decided to
hold the American market, duty or no duty,
and in order to do this will cut down their
profits from 8 shillings to 8 pence, and will
in consequence, only have a profit in the
future of from s to 10 per cent on their in
vested capital"
Demmler Brothers reiterate a statement
recently made in THE DISPATCH, that the
price of tinware to the consumer has not been
advanced. They do not think there will be
either excuse or occasion to do so. They
admit that the cost is higher, but so trif1ing
as to make no difference at all to the pur-
chaser.
Edward Groetzinger, one of the leading
carpet dealers of the, city, criticises the
Ohio Governors figuring on carpets. He
says there has been an advance of from 10 to
Is cents yard on all grades, but that this
is only one-half the amount claimed by the
Governor, emphasizing still further his in
accuracy. Mr. Groetzinger most emphati-
cally denies the statement that lesser adj
vance was placed on the goods usually pur-
chased by the wealthy than on those which
come within the reach of the working
man.
The senior partner in Thomas Wightman
& Sons, supports the statements lately
made in THE DISPATCH, that the increase
in the price of fruit jars was due to the un-
precedentedly large crop, and not in any
degree to the tariff. Referring to Governor
CampbelPs allusions to the advance as
being directly due to the tariff, Mr.. Wight
man said:
WHY GLASS JARS ARE DEARER.
sTf Mr. Campbell is quoted correctly to
the effect that fruit jars were advanced
from ST so to SIG 90 gross on account of
the Mckinley BILL he is either wilfully mis-
representing the conditions of things or
does not know what he is talking about.
Fruit jars sold last year for 81 a gross, and
the price this year is 50, although some
dealers may be charging $40 gross. This
is not due to the Mckinley bill, however,
but to the cheap price of sugar, and the
unprecedented fruit crop. The crop for
several seasons past has been a failure and
sugar being high there was no demand for
Jars. Consequently but few were made last
year. An unusual demand ior certain grades
will always stiffen prices, duty or no duty"
William Loeff1er saws: eff Governor
Campbell is correctly reported he does not
know what he is talking about He is re-
ported as saying: After the increase in
duty in 1883 wages were reduced from IS to
20 per cent The facts are the duty on
window glass was decreased in 1888 and not
increased, and as result of the lowering of
the duty, the wages were reduced 10 per
cent, and not IS per cent to 20 per cent.
After the period of depression that followed
the lowering of the tariff in 1888 there came
a period of prosperity, and in 1887 the |
wages were advanced 8 per cent, and in |
1889 another 5 per cent advance was paid. |
So you see no reduction was made except in |
1883, when the tariff was reduced Another |
thing Governor Campbell is reported as saw
ing is, 1T is needless to say there is a"trust"
in window glass This statement is abso- |
lutely false. So far we have no trust |
we have not even strong trade organiza- |
tion so that when we have meetings we |
find it difficult to get full attendance. |
Governor Campbell is generally we'll |
spoken of, but if his statements otherwise |
are as untruthful as those regarding win
dow glass, he certainly is very unreliable"
FOREIGN PRICES FOR PLows,
Major Joseph T. Speer, of the Globe |
Plow Works, said when called upon: seYou
can say regarding CampbelPs speech in re- |
ference to plows and cultivators, that he
has been misinformed on the subject. We
export largely to South America and the |
West Indies, and we get from ten To |
twenty-five per cent more for our goods than
we do in the home market
To this w. w. Speer, added: Eyes. aid
more prompt payment"
Governor Campbells statement that there
was no necessity for an increase in the duty |
ON cotton ties because the Americans had |
been underselling the foreigns with 50
per cent ad valorem duty in effect, while |
now there is specified duty imposed is
positively denied by Pittsburg manu-
facturers. This trade was at one |
time a leading industry in this |
section, but it was destroyed by the |
reduction of the tariff. Since every effort
has been made by manufacturers to re- |
establish it. They secured every patent |
taken out to cheaper the cost in an endeav- |
or to compete with the foreign product. |
Under the old tariff the latter could deliver
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