The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-17
LIBgLING AN INDIANA INDUSTRY.

The recent Republican meeting at FL
wood and the notoriety thereby given
to the American tin -plate-w0rks at that
place has stirred the Democratic press
up to a high pitch of excitement. Holy
water to his satanic majesty or a red
rag to a wild bull is not more repulsive
and exciting than the sight of a pros
porous protected industry to a free
trader, and of all protected industries
the most odious just now is a tin-plate
factory. Circumstances have given that
industry peculiar prominence. and the
prospect of its successful establishment
in this country has filed the free-trade
it "a fire similar to that directed years
ago against other great and o sue
cessful industries.
The recent meeting has given a fresh
impulse to the great Democratic indus
try of campaign lying, and it will be no
fault of the free-trade papers if they do
not lie the tin-plate plant at Elwood off
the face of the earth. The lying is in.
various keys. The New York Evening
Post says that thousands wanted to see
Governor Mckinley in his great act of
dipping q fOreign-made black plate in a
bath of foreign tin, but were disap-
pointed" Governor Mckinley did not
go to Elwood to make tin, but to make a
Republican speech, and, by the same
token, he did make a mighty good one.
Doforo oil of&ar ka eHaEa <h,,canAo 0f
persons witnessed the various processes
of manufacturing tin-plate, not out of
'foreIgn-made black plate" as the Post
says, but out of black plate rolled from
American steel in the mill at Elwood.
Tbs Philadelphia Record gives the lie
a somewhat different coloring. 1t says:
1t was given out with much effnsiveness
in the faithful organs, yesterday. that the
Indiana Republican committee had form
ally dedicated a tin-plate plant at Eiwood
on the day before. with Mckinley himself
on hand to give eclat to the occasion. liz
pany had 3, 500 lots which it desired to sell.
and that it had devised the smart dodge of
utilizing the committee. the dedication,
Mckinley, etc, as o free advertisement for
Its scheme.
Every one of the thousands who went
to Elwood last Tuesday knows this is
false.
The Chicago Herald. which seems to
Mckinley and Chase ga pair of clowns"
Elwood ga raw Indiana town." and the
tin-plate- works "a bare-faced fake"
1t goes on:
Not o feature in the whole business, from
beginning to end. but shames the decent
men who lent themselves to the patent
swindle. There IS no truth, nor honesty.
nor solidity in the Elwood mills. and the
greenest granger who waded in the yellow
mud, or singed his whiskers In the natural
gas torch, or loafed unconscious in the
dripping rain. but knows IL IN his heart.
Hencef0rth the name of ElwOod will take
the place of the scarcely honorable boom"
in our language. 1t Is boom, with nothing
behind it but that which always luiks be-
hind the boom-the wary sharper with q
waiting trap.
Elwood has several manufacturing in
dustries which any city, even Chicago,
might be glad to possess. The tin
plate-mill is only n of several. If the
Herald would print the truth about
these industries, with cuts of their
plants, their product, the number of
men they employ. ETC., its readers could
judge for themselves whether the town
was a fake or not. 1t prefers the good
old Democratic way of filling it's read
ers up with lies.
1t is q remarkable phase of politics
that leads a portion of the press to thus
attack American manufacturers and try
to break down an industry which prom
ises at no distant day to become one of
great Importance. 1t will do SD in spite
of their malignant efforts to destroy it.
Meanwhile. if the people of Indiana are
possessed of the proper spirit they will
vote against the party which is circulat-
ing these libels against Indiana indus
tries and Indiana towns.