St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-18
TIRED MIR. NlkDRINGHAUs.

Mr.. NiedringhauS, who is one of the
proprietors of the ST. Louis Stamping
company. which is engaged in produc-
ing stamped ware and, incidentally
under the Mckinley bonus, tin plate.
told a reporter of morning paper re-
Gently that sundry and odd things which
he specifies ''makes me tired" This
merely illustrates how the law of COM
pensation finds out aud Furnishes men,
for MI. NiedriDghduS made his Repub-
lican associates in the Fifty-irst con-
greSS very tired indeed when he told
them that if they put tax on boraX,
which his firm used extensively. he
would bolt the Mckinley bill. 1t is
supposed he was placated by the pros
pectiye profits in making tin plate held
out by the bill; anyway he didn't bolt
AS a study in the capacity of men to
resist and endure strain. whether phys
ical or mental, Mr.. Niedringhans' state
mept of what it is that makes him tired
is inviting. 1t eXhaustS him when free
trade cranks tell me TO my face that we
are not making pound Of tin plate in
the United States" Waving the doubt
which Expresses US as TO whether any
free trade or other crank told him any
such thing, Mr.. Niedringhaus might
produce a much more satisfactory proof
than the little piece of tin plate with his
managers sworn statement that it was
made in his factory. This present Dem
ocratic administration publishes in its
treasury report for August the fact that
the ST. Louis Stamping company, with
capital of 100000, advised the depart
ment that it expected to make 23,000,000
pounds OF tin plate this year, but that if
in the remaining three-quarters of the
year it should make three and half
times as much as it made in the first
quarter, it would put out 100000
pounds. 1t goes farther and informs
the public that this company uses Amer
lean black sheets in making its tin
plate.
Another thing that wearies Mr..
Niedringhaus is the idea that the tax of
% cents pound on imported tin plate,
and of four cents pound on block tin
should make the workingman's dinner
pail dearer. That is very wearisome
when every one knows that the whole
dilU dilu pun DOSC VI I'LL 4hG1AttbCS anu
of Mr.. Niedrlnghaus was, and is. to
make the workingman's dinner pail
cheaper. There were some captiou5
free trade cranks who did cayil at the
method adopted; impracticable fellows
who did not believe there was bit OF
wisdom or common sense in the old
saw that 1.-The nearest way home is the
longest way round" or that the way to
make thing cheap was to increase the
cost of the thing from which it was
made. If Mr.. Niedringhaus is not too
tired we hope the next time he comes
this way he will tell US how much dearer
OF cheaper &c tin plate. with one or two
or three KS attached, is DOW than 1t
was when pig tin was free. and tin
plate paid an impost of IL cents
pound. And, as we understand that he
is playing with a farm somewhere out
on the prairies, we wish, as a side light,
he would also show how he can make
wheat cheaper by increasing the cost of
producing it; that is If he is not too
tired.
Another thing that tires Mr.. Med
ringhaus is that free traders should say,
1--WE are doing wrong by putting Amer
lean workingmen to work on American
tin plate" aud his efforts to understand
how any one ''can say that it is not
right that tin plate should be made in
America" weary him. II anybody ever
did say that, without qualification, which
we very much doubt, we do not wonder
that it tired the gentleman. If, how
J. eyer. free tEadsrs OF any one else said