Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02

would at wait moment but would
start work on the new plant. That
the Democrats will DO away with the
tinplate duty, if they once get into pow
er, is to my mind quite certain. Here Is
Democratic bill introduced INTO the
present congress. lis object is Obvious.
1t proposes to reduce the tariff on tin
plate with the evident Intention or even
tually doing away with it entirely. We
cannot afford TO invest $3.50, 600 in
plant while there is a chance that i
might be useless after il bad run year.
With the present duty we would he com
PEELED sooner or later to procure tin
plate plant Of cur own. We use 5000
boxes of tinplate annually, and it would
pay us to make the tin in our own fac
tory, if the duty is upheld, while with no
duty we should continue buy ing our tin
plate abroad. The starting of new
factory in Milwaukee would mean the
employment of 200 to 300 men. All the
large tin ware manufactured IN the coun-
try would sooner or later provide their
own tinplate factories, but they are
mostly waiting for the next falls eec-
ton. ="
HAS STUDIED THE QUESTION.
Mr.. Kieckhefer has made it special
object to study the tinplate question.
He is in possession of an abundance of
facts and figures pertaining to it and is
well posted on the subjuct.
"As a tinware manufacturer who
ought to feel the burden of the tinplate
tariff" Mr. Kieckheter said, Il am de-
cidedly in favor Of its being kept up. A
vast majority. if not all, Of the other
tinware manufactures feel likewise. The
only ones who are really opposed to ii
and are DONG ali they can to abolish it
are the importers in New York and the
tinplate manufactures of Wales and
England. am positive that they are
spending mon " in this country to that
end. A small example is right here.
trade paper published in Chicago has
had standing advertisement of our
firm. Some time ago it published an
article denouncing the tinplaie duty land
! noticed that Immediately after the
article was published large advertise
ments of English tinplate factories made
their appearance on the pages of the
sheet. There are fourteen such adver-
tisements of different English factories,
and | have no doubt they are well paid
for OF coutse, we have withdrawn our
advertisement What is most surpris
ing is the fact that the general public to-
day does not pay cent more for tim
ware than four years ago. If there has
been n small advance in prices the man
ufacturers and wholesale dealers in tin
ware have had to make it good cut Of
their own earnings, while the people
have never noticed it. Competition
regulates the prices and naturally keeps
them down. "
AMERICAN TINrLATE FACTORIES
Mr. Kieekhefer has visited personally
every one Of the tinpldte factories now
operated in this country, and he is in
position TO tell whether American tin
plate is manufactured
The efforts 10 make the people be-
lieve that American tinplate is not being
made are simply foolish" he said
millions Of dollars are already invested
in tinplate factories, and only few days
ago | received fifty boxes of tinplate
made in Pittsburg by Wallace, Beniield
Il Co. Tinplate Is also manufactured in
Pittsburg by the United States Iron and
Tinplate company aud the Apollo Iron
and Steel Company, not counting a
number of smaller concerns. and there
is the St. Louis Stamping company
Large tinplate works are going up in
Brooklyn, n. \ The Brooklyn plant is
being built by the firm of Somors Bros,
aud 100000 is invested IN IT, expect
to visit that plant as soonas tits opened
While at St. Louis, few weeks ago, in
speeding the tinplate plant Of the ST.
Louis Stamping company. met gen
tleman from England. who had been
sent to this country for the purpose Of
asceryaiuing the progress made here in
tinplate manufacture since the adoption
of the Mckinley tariff The gentleman
was an agent of English tluplate manu-
facturers, and he assured me that the
ST. Louis plant was equal to any OF the
plants that have existed for so many
years in England, OF course the St.
Louis concern manufactures the tinpate
for its own use, but the plant will be en-
Jagged and extended as soon as it be-
comes certain that the tinplate tariff is
there TO remain for years to come. We
have been frequently visited of late by
aoents of English firms offar;no fin,,lat 20