The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-16
TARIFF AND TIN PJ.r,.

The majority Of the ways and
committee have agreed to report , t Ieda'
storing the former tax of | M, ~N
pound on imported tin plate, centa
we shall be told that the wicl,od1 ana nov
Gratis propose to strangle a nou G,thO
lean industry in its infancy. ~. Amer
democrats succeed in PASSING ~ i The
they cannot be convicted of inf ,nelr bill
tin plate infant, dead or alive. DIS The
In September, 1889, the An..
Tined Plate association, through its , a0Sa
tary, Mr.. CIonemeyer, sent forth secle
cular in which the announcemnn. ach'
made to the American people tbat wa
plate plant had been erected "to %o ID
strate that tin plate can be mad 1e'nOl
as well as anywhere in the world, 4 aef,
1t is fact" the association added 80 an9
W can prove it by figures. that td
can be made here and sold with > es
at presnat selling prices" pOhl
According to the Iron Age the So,r.
price at that time was 1870 nor hS
Thanks to the Mckinley duty a, % y
cents per pound, the price has since -.
to S5.35 per box, according to a stay
made by Mr. Cronemeycr himself iNe
letter read at a recent convention q, ~
Western Packers Canned Goods assoo y
ton. And yet it vas asserted by a mss
Der of that convention that there waS !.
American tin plate on the market at oaJ
price. and this assertion was not disrn:
ed. ''pu
Not very long ago of the membo.
of Mr.. Cornemeyer's association saI
there was talk of asking congress for J,
increase of duty to 3 cents or moro ~.
pound, and intimated that fin nISps
could not be made in this country a,'
profit at the advertised price or undS,
lower duty then 3 cents per nonrS
This was equivalent to an admission tbs,
there was no tin plate industry in +.
country at all.
So far as any Infant industry" is Hi,
country is concerned there might aswaI
be no duty whatever on tin plate, I'm,
the democrats on the ways and ma.r'
committee do not forget that the govern
ment must have revenue. and they a..
willing that $7,OOO,O00, more or less
be raised by ear of a moderate drtr
on tin plate.
Experience for many years has sbovr
that a duty of / = cent a pound is purelv
revenue duty. Under this rate eyerv
dollar paid by consumers goes TO fsttrt
a republican campaign fund by 6n
fattening the bank account uf the mem
bers of Mr.. Croneymer's association,
The present duty doesn't protect an
infant tin plate industry, but it does
protest the roofing iron industry. il |
which members of the American Tippej
Plate association are largely interested
Some time ago they held a session h
Pittsburg, and after some deliberatm
adjourned as a tin plate association. but
Immediately came to order as a ,coru.
gated iron association. procecdeib
tighten the girths of their combine
and advanced the price Of their product
l per cent a pound under the 81 d.rof
the Mckinley additional duty 81 L..
cents a pound on tin plate.
The democrats of the ways AMI means
committee propose to cut off this add.
tional duty which enables the tin ps,e
doppelganger association to raise he
price of another roofing material ltt
a very good plan. II will do more than
the Sherman act to curtail the pOwqd
n unlawful combine to extortion