Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-07-05
The Tin-plate Liar.

DUrlnS the campaign OF 1917 the Dem-
.ocratic papers make it a part of their
business to cry down the effort to make
American tin under the protection of the
Mckinley law. The tin-plate liar did a
good deal of work in that campaign
which called forth expressions of deep
gratitude from foreign manufacturers.
After making the campaign against
American tin, the tin-plate liar passed
out of notice for awhile, but he is on deck
again, and the following from the Phila-
delphia Press will show his tactics in the
coming campaign:
"A recent number of the 1ronmOngers
Chronicle, an English trade journal, con-
tains an interview with David Charles
Davies, United States consul at Swansea,
South Wales, the seat Of tin-plate manu-
featuring. When asked as to the truth
of the statements concerning the estab-
lshment of TIM plate works in this country
Mr.. Davies is reported as making the
following reply: All fake, sir; all fake!
There is one, | believe, in Indiana. which
in Missouri was supposed to be a huge
affair, but in consequence of bet the
great industry was subjected to an in
quiry which showed that all the people
employed We're Il boy and Il girl, who
We're engaged in dipping black plate i'm
ported from Wales The cause of the
failure to make tin plates in America IS
net the cost of labor. They can turn out
the plates rs cheaply, but they can't make
them as good. After forty-eight hours
use ..,, or so they begin to get rusty: - 49,.
subject in this country than the Metal
Worker journal devoted to roofing,
plumbing and heating industries. The
current number of that journal reviews
the tin-plate industry and says: 1.-The tin
plate trade is in Il very singular condi-
ton. From the importers standpoint it
is exceedingly dull. with no immediate
prospects of improvement. On the other
hand, domestic manufacturers report an
active demand for every pound they are
able to produce, whether OF bright or
roofing plates Both agree, however, in
reporting prices stationary and with APP
Darently no tendency to advance. An
other feature has also developed which
should receive consideration, as it is hay
ing an influence on the course OF trade.
The quality of American tin plates is
generally so good that consumers prefer
them, ask for them. and take imported
plates with reluctance if they cannot get
domestic. A short time since. before it
was seen that there might be shortage,
Il large Western jobbing house decided to
handle only American plates.
Here is very plain proof that this Da-
ves. the creature sent abroad by Grover
Cleveland to misrepresent his country,
is in plain terms a liar. II he had taken
the pains to look up the official figures of
the treasury department he would have
found that from July /. 1891, to Deem
Der 81, 1893. there were made in this
country 1:Ssss. 263, 426 pounds of tin and
terne plate. of which more than 46 per
cent was from American black plate.
If Mr. Davies had informed himself on
this question he would not have written
hmsef down such an egregious donkey
and falsitier But how do the people of
this country like the fact that an ac
credited official of the Cleveland admins
iS p0 in
tries of the country he is paid to look
after?'
In connection with the tin-plate ques
ton it is said that scandal is in sight
down in Washington. Just as the sugar
schedule was prepared in the interest Of
the Sugar trust. so the tin-plate schedule
,af the Democratic tariff bill was prepared
III the interest of the Welsh manufacture
ers. An unnaturalized Englishman,
named Trench. is said to have been the
.eicn tin-plate interests. 1t is asserted that
the British and Welsh manufacturers had
information as to the provision of the
tariff bill rs to tin plate before it was
known in this country 1t is stated that
4 letter can be produced. dated in Eng
land. May 21, in which 4 is stated that
the British and Welsh tin-plate works
have started up in anticipation of the ac-
ton of the Senate on tin plate. This was
several days before the action of the
trainers of the tariff bill was known i'll
Washington. Work was begun in the tin
plate districts in England. based upon the
action of the finance committee. two
weeks before that committee had made
public its decision Trench. in New York.
and the large importers are said to have
sent orders abroad for thousands of boxes
of tin plate based upon this advance in
formation. The reduction of cent
pound in the duty means a profit to those
who could have advance information OF
over ST box
Argentine Wheat.
For some years the Democrats have
-contended that the duty placed on wheat
by the Mckinley law was simply sop
thrown to the farmers. as there could be
no well-grounded fear that imported
wheat would ever come in competition