Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-17

New York is ass per box. decrease in duty.
81. % per box; increase in price. only IS cents
per box.
A box Of tin plate contains more than
100 pounds of metal. so that the in
creased cost per pound is less than
l5-lOO of cent. To the purchaser at
retail this is of no moment 1t is not
added TO the price" Retail prices of
tinwsre are unchanged. as every good
housewife KNOWS.
But the new tariff on tin plates has
been in effect for but little more than a
year. IL was shrewdly said at the
Packers ASSOCIATION that il it takestLree
years to prepare for the worlds fair, at
a cost of Sl5.OOO,OOO, then five years.
the term percribed by the Mckinley
bill, is none too long for the transla-
ton of The tin plate industry from
Wales to the United States. at cost of
S25, 10000 The first years operation
of the new tariff on tin plate was thus
summarized:
There is now in successful operation twelve
different tin-plate works, varying in size from
the one by feet. which Gov. Campben's lieu
lament claimed lac found at Apollo. to those at
Demmler and St. Louis covering from to G
acres. There are 10 others in course Of erection.
some nearly completed, and all Of which will De
in full operation by the fall OF 1892. These 25
4ror sr.v4lf -.
about IS 900 boxes per week. or between 10000
and 10000 tons per year, which is about one
sixth Of the present consumption. These 25
works, when completed, will represent an invest
ment of between three and four million dollars.
If this be done in enc years time, whal may be
expected in three to five?
As to the future the representative of
one of the new mills spoke thus:
Il represent the American Tin Plate Com
pany, OF Elwood, Ind, who are erecting plant
to cost 100000, and which will be in operation
in the month OF June next. manufacturing about
1000 boxes weekly We contemplate. how
ever, to be manufacturing $4,000 boxes of tin
plate weekly inside of two years from now. The
plant we are at present erecting will consist of
four mills for rolling our own plates and the
necessary departments for coating the same.
probably with American tin, and which will.
am here prepared to guarantee equal in quality
and fnisL any Welsh make. In my opinion the
Western Packers association, congregated here
to-day, can do nothing better than countenance
the American tin plate industry, and they will
soon be rewarded with cheaper plate for their
canning purposes"
The speaker was a gentleman who
described himself as until recently
member of the tin plate monopoly in
Wales. where l spent twenty years in
this particular trade"
What has been accomplished already
is mary elous, especially when it is con-
sidered that tin plate has been made
the main object of attack by the free
traders. Capital, doubtless, has been in
part frightened away from tin. plate in
vestments, and in part made to move
SLOWLY in erecting plants, by the con-
slant threats of the democratic party to
repeal the new duty. But since Me-
Kinley's great victory in Ohio comb
dence has been restored, with the effect
Of Fastening American works toward
completion, and of causing the Welsh
makers to lower their prices from the
SIS 60 per box demanded, in December,
1890, to the S. 35 asked at the present
time.
There is no need Cf comment on the
proceedings of the meeting. The gen
tleman who buy the most tin plate at
wholesale are satisfied with the opera
ton of the Mckinley bill. The people
who buy at retail have no cause to COM
plain, for tin cups, washbowls, dinner
pals. coffee pots and other domestic
utensils are as cheap as ever. Canned
foods are not made deSrer by the higher
tariff on tin plate. 1t is only those
whom an English journal has described
as ''strong siding champions of British
interests in Chicago aud elsewhere"
that are une ,sy.-La Crosse Republican
and Leader.