Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-29
THE TIN PLATE CONSPIRACY"

The REGISTER belongs TO the band OF
conspirators who are doing all they can TO
discourage the tin plate industry in this
country and 20 prejudice te public mind
against the effort that is being made TO es-
tablish an American tin plate Industry.
The conspiratOrs have some reason OF their
own for preferriug 10 have tin plate for the
American market made in Wales.-Intel-
ligCHcer.
This is not only unjust but actually
cruel. The REGISTER has never said
word to discourage the tin plate in
dustry in this country" We simply
have asked, WHERE IS IT? 1t was
promised TO US TWO years ago and the
people have been paying 100000 a
year for it since then. We do not hold
that tin plate cannot be made in this
country, If he tdr on 1t is raised high
enough and The rdlg material admitted
free. All the REGISTER asks is, WHERE
Is IT? Why is American made tin
plate not quoted in the market reports?
What conspiracy" cam the htcLH-
gCpcer have in mind, unless it be the
conspiracy of the political tin plate
takers to defraud the people?
Before the Mckinley bill passed tin
plate cost S44O per box; now it costs
$685., or 95 cents more in consequence
OF MCKINLEY's absurd political expert
ment. And this tax is paid by the peo-
pie. The wealthy Chicago packing
houses and the Standard Oil Company
get their tin plate free. The Billion
Dollar Congress took care of that. 1t
imposed tax on our own people to pay
a bonus 10 these monopoIies for supply
ing oil and meat cheap for export TO
foreign countries. The following dis
patch is interesting in this connections:
A statement was laid before the House
today from the Commissioner OF Customs,
showing that 81, ~ 1901 drawback was al
lowed by the government on tin cans, etc,
manufactured from imported tin plate and
exported from OCtOberl, 1880, 10 Decem'
Der 81, 1891.
Another statement from the commits
sIOuGI NLONS Lu&L NAlC AuAOAlAN VI VI CIV SssNAN
allowed on imported salt used in curing
meats exported from October l, 1890, TO
December 81, 1891, aggregated S92, POI. In
Cluded I'm third statement was table
giving quantity and value of salt imported
and withdrawn from warehouses for the
purpose of curing fish, the duty on which
was RENTED under the act Of October l,
1890. The quantity aggregated ll5,g95,6OO
pounds, valued at SlO2, $50.
1t is noticed that the rebate on tin
cans, oil cans chiefly, manufactured
from imported tin plate and exported,
is Sill, O61 in fifteen months, or about
Sl9O,O 600 monthly. The rebate goes to
the big" men, the large exporters, for
small dealers cannot import tin and
make it up. Most of it goes to the
Standard Oil Company.
On salt the "rebate" used in curing
meat for export was nearly S100,0OO;
aud for curing fish over 500, 900.
Yet the IntelligCRcer calls it ICON
spiracy" against American industry to
expose this fraud on the people.
The real conspirators against American
industry are the Republican bosses and
the select tariff benefciaries, the trusts
and combines, together with their or
gaus. The farmer, the labOrer,
the merchant, the professional man,
the people generally, all are sacri-
feed that the tariff barons, who
foot the bills of the Republican
party, may be made rich through the
taxing power Of the government. That
prices Of the neceSSarieS OF life have
gone up all along the line is notorious,
and almost every day the wires bring to
the newspapers of the country news of
reductions in wages. 1t was but yester-
day the REGISTER printed a dispatch
from PittSburg stating that the manu-
facturers of black sheets, which it is
proposed to use in making tin-plate,
will insist on reduc ton in the cost
Of production, SO far rs it relates TO