Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
lows: This can is made automatically

lows: This can is made automatically
of the first Americanti tin plate ever manu-
featured in the United States, by Norton
Bros, Chicago. The plate it is made
from is as superior TO the usual plate as
the can itself is superior IN workmanship
and il has stamped upon the edge Of the
plate legend that should make the men
that lied Mr.. Mckinley out Of his seat in
congress go and hide themselves in sack
cloth and ashes. or something worse, for
it reads, For sale at the lowest English
prices That legend knocks writer's
fears silly that the Mckinley tariff on
tin was too low to invite capital to invest
itself in tin interest III might interest
your readers to know that those fears
were based on three months experience
among the bin miners of Cornwall, Eng
land, and three months among the tin
plate factories of Wales, where hum
dreds Of thousands Of skilled laborers are
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employed at rs Sd as the top price per
day, and hundreds Of thousands OF
woman are employed al LIS Cd per day
and less, pounding and shoveling rock
carrying it in sacks to the reduction
works, separating ore from rock, carry
ing melted ore and running it into bars
and other forms, hard slavish labor at
the very miserable pay they receive for
half unsexing themselves for SO meager
show to live while an Irishman with
with pick-ax and wheelborrow that you
furnish him in the Black Hills, will want
$3 day to run them for you, and my
fears was that the Yankees inventive
genius was hardly equal to the task Of
overcoming the difference between Is Sd
and 50 day.
True, told my Cornish friends we
should never employ woman at any
price to do the slavish, sledge-hammer
work that they did, but when we had a
ton of tin bearing rock on top of ground,
we would hit it one blow with ten-ton
trip hammer and knock it into "pi'' be-
fore one of your girls can knock frag-
ment'of rock into her next neighbor's
eye large enough to ruin her eyesight
Then instead of shoveling that crushed
rock into sacks to be carried to the re.
ducing works on the backs of girls, we
will carry it there on endless belts with
far less cost than they can do it al
Is Sd per day. But that beauty of tir
can automatically" made is SO far be-
yond my conceptions of American tin
possibilities that / cayel wilt! give it up
and throw up the sponge. I admit
frankly that I am asbesnea Of the mar.
rowness of my confidence in the genius
of my countrymen on this TIN question
and I surely ought to be. Then
in the name of common sense, how
ought the anti-American to feel, whose
whole effort has been to hold our coun
try back while England, with her half
starved pauper labor, is left to "lead'
civilization with crowd of woman
armed with shoyels and sledge hammers
If there is man in the United States
today who is still trying to hold thi
country back to give England the leat
in anything, he ought to go to Englan'
on foot and stay there until he finds hoV
great fool he has been. Cornwall ant
Wales calls me tin crank because
even suggested improved methods in til
work; and as look at that antomati
cally made tin can I am ashamed of my
self for being SO far behind the process
sion. I have remailed the little beaut,
to some extensive tin dealers in Cornwall
who are excellent friends of mine, and t
whom that automatic tin can mus
sound the death-knell to Cornish tin in
terests.