Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-14
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1t Is Very Easy to Make Now Another
Campaign Is Drawing On

1t Is Very Easy to Make Now Another
Campaign Is Drawing On.
Editor Gosette d. Journal We notice in a
late issue OF your paper an article upon
| The lire that took place at our works here.
While. it may please You to endeavor to
ridicule the same we think ii would be in
better TASTE If you would first find out to
| what extent the fire reached us your report
of this is at great variance with the facts,
and we are sorry to say about on par
with most articles one reads in newspapers.
| The facts are that there was simply a
boiling over Of one of the pots Of palm oil
resulting in the destruction of the roof at
one end of the building. 1t is now being
repaired and we expect to be in full ruin
ming order i'll the course of few days.
| we really are at Il loss to understand
how it is possible for any American citizen
| TO take the position you do in connection
with tin-plate. The manufacture Of tin-plate
IS so simple and so easily carried on; the
article is simply the OUTPUT of our rolling
mills, namely: Sheet-stee or sheet-iron,
coated with pure tin or mixture Of tin and
lead. As the American rolling mills pro-
duce as fine quality sheet-steel'as any part
OF the world, the balance Of the work is
very easily carried OH. There is more
knowledgc and skill required in the issuing
oil your paper than in this additional work
course would not attempt to enter into
any argument, but if you will think for
one moment we are quite sure you will he
satisfied that during the great many years
past when we have been paying out mil
mons OF dollars for the duty on tin plate.
when there was no idea whatever of
making it here, was the time when the
consumers were taxed
We never had any idea of making the
plates here, still we knew what plates
were, how made, DC, but we were always
under the impression that il required n
great deal Of skill, which impression you
can rest safely assured was always fostered
ny the foreign manufacturers with whom
We have come in contact, but Just us soon
us we felt that plate could be made here
we erected one complete stack for expert
mental purposes and we We're not many
days IN finding out that all these reports
about skilled labor, life study, &C., were
SIMPLY rot, and that the output of DIR roll
ing mills can be made into tin-plate here
IN America great deal easier and with
less skill than newspaper can be properly
We take our black sheets and properly
prepare and coat them with pure tin or a
mixture Of tin and lead. making them
INTO tn-platc. We do not know, but we
FANCY you buy your paper, prepare and
PRINT ltand issue newspaper. If we do
not make tin-plate then you surely do not
publish newspaper.
Our work in America is exactly thesa
as the work of thousands in Great Britain
there are only very few who roll their
black sheets: We have arrangements with
rollers OF black sheets, and are receiving
not only very good but superior to the
imported article. There is i rolling mill
now being erected of which we will take
the entire output.
We are in position to furnish American
tln.pIlate made entirely of American ma
terials from start to finish commencing
wlth the iron ore and all work done by
American workmen. As far as our work
mere IN Philadelphia is concerned, we have
not one foreigner in our factory.
The value of American tin-plate is the
value OF American sheet-steel or sheet-iron
to which is added the value of the coating
and the labor OF putting it on. If we
should buy our tin-plate in foreign coun-
tries then we should buy our sheet-steel,
sheet-iron. rails, hardware, cutlery, &c, in
the same way, but if our prices on steel,
metal and labor are correct then the total
value of the three must be correct.
AS far as the industry is concerned there
is no question about the success il politi-
clans, will let it alone for a reasonable
length OF time. As for selling prices, COM
petition will regulate the prices, the diff
ference in cost being simply the difference
in labor which will be reduced BY Alneri-
can invention and improved machinery
and we are satisfied before long the foreign
article will have no place in this market.
The same occurred with galvanized sheet
iron within few years and as there is very
little difference between the two there is
no reason why tin-plate should occupy any
other position.
II your articles are published for politi-
cal effect, then We of course have nothing
to say; but if, in all seriousness, we would
say there is no more reason why America
should get her supplies of tin-plate from
foreign countries than she should get her
sheet-steel, sheet-iron, rails, hardware. cut
lery, &C., from the same place.
1t may surprise you to know that in the
common grades of roofing tin there Is less
than five cents worth of block tin in box
which is selling for $3.50, therefore less
than one per cent, and If we do not mine
a single pound of block tin in this country.
this small part of the cost should not cause |
the entire stock to come from foreign |
countries.
AS we have so frequently stated before It
Is the universal ignorance of what the |
article is that causes the ridiculous articles |
to be published on the subject. If YOU will |
take the trouble to investigate tin-plate |
plant and will publish your truthful CON |
yictions ,yon will never say one word |
against the industry. Very truly yours,
n. Il q. TAYLOR Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, April 9th, 1882.