The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-11

ufacture of tin-plate In this country.
Papers OF that class. seem determined
that the tin plate industry in this
country shall not be a success. They
are determined so far as they are con-
cerned, that We shall still keep on sup
porting English tin and tin plate man
factories instead Of starting up our
own mills aud manufacturing our own
tin plate. No tongue eau describe the
intense antagonism to this part Of the
Mckinley tariff bill, though every as
suranee is given that the real intent OF
protection Is about to be realized in |
this bill.
These free trade organs seem deter
mined never to admit that tin exists
anywhere in paying quantities, in face
= of the fact that American pig tin has
already found its way into the market.
They made the prediction that no
tin would be manufactured in this
country. and they are determined that
that prediction shall come true. They
have to have some kind Of an argu-
Ahthb VI ~ AAANO bAAC NOhiAhb NhihpuiGh
with, and they have taken the tin-plate
lie as the best argument they can pro-
duce and in spite of all the facts
that can be produced, they maintain
every successful effort that has been
made in this country to manufacture
tin-plate has beon dismal failure, and
that no tin-plate can DO manufactured
except in England and Wales, and here
they seem determined it shall not be
manufactured In spite of all that can
be said or done.
II will never do-o permit this Nc
Kinley bill to become a success, for it
will give the direct lie to all their as
sertions that it would be failure.
A few weeks ago the papers contain
ed an item stating that $4,000 pounds
of pure pig tin had been mined and
swelled at, the Temescal mines, Califor-
mia, and shipped to the American Tin
Plate Company, OF Sc. Louis This
was all denied and said to be fabri-
cation of protective brain as there
were no tin mines in this country that
could be worked to an advantage.
The American Tin Plate Company is
operated by ex-congressman Neid-
ringhaus, who has become the object
of the most sincere mallgnity of the
free-traders.
He is determined that the tin plate
industry here shall have a fair trial,
and the freetrsders are just as
determined that 1t shall not. Every
attempt he has made to get the skilled
labor necessary for the successful pro
duction of tin plate has been met by
papers like the Every Evening with the
charge OF an attempt to import alien
labor to this country, as If such thing
had never been done before with other
Infant Industries that have proved the
greatest success. In regard to this
Temescal shipment of block tin. to st
Louis we can do no better than tc
give what the San Francisco Chronicle
Of July 5th says about it.
It will be noticed that 1t has quite
different tone about it than the do!or
Gus forebodings OF our neighbor til.
Every Evening, and other Tariff lie
form papers on the subject. Here il
what the Chronicle says:
ION Friday the Temescal tin mine
shipped to the American Tin Plat,
Company of st. Louis $500 pounds o
pig tin produced, smeltod and refine,
ct Temescal. That company now hnl
orders on hand from newly.forme,
tln-plate companies in the Unite,
States for over $500, 900 worth of hlocl
TN, and Is running day and night wit
three shifts OF men to meet the de
Dand.
What will our Democratic and Nup
wump friends say to this? Will the
still insist that we cannot and will no
make tin plate in the United States
Pnd that We ought to continue. a
heretofore, filling the Welshmen
pockets at prices which they name
Viii they claim now that tho Mekinle
Dill Is a mere empty form OF words, O
that 1t will not foster and encourag
at least one domestic Industry? /
must be borne in mind that ninctee
tons OF block tin mean at least III
tons of tin plate, the tin being onl
ebout3 per cent. Of the SO called Ii
plate.
Six hundred tons of tin plate is M
very much, but it will be enoug
10 disprove the Free-Trade ass,ertiu
that tin plate in marketable quantitit
is not made in the United States. III
shipment, too, Is only a single one an
will be followed by others Just as Ia
as the ore can lie mined aud mile,
The Tenescal company.expects with
Sixty days to be smelling from four
ak tons OF block tin per day, and
Increase the output far beyond thu
within IA short time