The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13
1so2 and ending with 1899. The figures

mean pounds:
Americdn Foretcn Fer cent.
black Plate. black plate. american. Total
1909. e.2s6.s 500 1880 100 8s.1s 13,eto,7iS
Ises.. 4s,b ,791 be.219,47s 43.es aa,si9,209
iseI., ss,oes, 2o9 bs,abS.0sb eliza 1873, a9s,AO7
1908 1905 40, p04 89.q9a.i3o 1886 1893, sol, ora
Isos .aog, LOG, ogs t.220,5s8 9s.8a sOT. 22s. cal
Previously to 1892, in which ended the
first fiscal year OF the operation of the Nc
Kinley tariff of 1890, the art of timing
was considered as having reached perfec-
ton in Wales, and there was practically
no production of tin plate in this country.
The figures for 1892 given above indicate
| the immediate result OF the passage of the
Mckinley bill. The statistics for the re-
manning years show that there has been
an astounding increase Of nearly twenty
iyefold in the production Of the article (;
and that almost none Of 1t is now made
from foreign black plate.
While the figures for the fiscal year of
1897 are not yet available. it is likely that
the amount of foreign black plate used in tin
plate manufacture in this country during
that period was something less than three
quarters of one per cent. of the entire con.
sumption. 1t is stated upon competent au.
UnOTlTV UUHJ lntEO 10 cNCIy DIOuhDlllb1 JuuU
in the fiscal year just beginning the United
States will rank as a tin exporting country.
In the fiscal year of 1897 the black plate
mills whose product forms the basis of the
tin manufacture, increased in number from
179 to 1913, and already in the present fiscal
year these mills have increased to 26O.
with many more projected. The largest tin
manufacturing plant in the world has
been erected recently at New Castle, in
Pennsylvania.
Tin plate manufacturing in the United
States now gives direct employment to
nearly 10000 men. A large number OF
Welsh workmen have come hither since
the beginning of tin plate manufacture,
but the manufacturers say that our native
American workmen are far more progress
sive, inventive, and satisfactory. Another
important element in the success of the
business has been the improvement in ma
chinery, which Is now entirely manufac-
tured here. The cost of a modern American
machine, doing better work than an Eng.
lish one, has been reduced from So, 200, the
price of five years ago, to $500.
The cold statement of these facts, graft
flying as they are, does not show the entire
benefit which has accrued from the encour-
agement and impetus which the Mckinley
tariff impaired to the American tin plate
industry. During all this period of the
starting and fostering of the industry here,
the price of tin plate to the consumer has
steadily decreased. Before the passage of
the Mckinley tariff a box of English tin
plate cost $4.25. For two or three months
after the bill became a law the price of the
duty-paid English product in our market
was $4.s5, the American manufacturer,
however. underselling it at $4.7O. But in
a short time the natural play of COMPETE.
tion began and the same amount of tin
plato as was selling for $4.25 previously
to 1892 is nov selling at 1918.
When one really looks at this tin plate
lie, what q superb and monumental false.
hood it is! How could anybody but GoDK1N
of the Evening Post erect another lie so
large n round and grand7