The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-12

The Register and Its Critic.
Judging from the Registers editorial
comment on Tin and Terne's exposure
Of its Ignorance Of the tin plate indus
try. Its history and progress, which APP
peared in yesterdays IntellIgencer, but
which the Register did not publish or
quote from, for the benefit of Its read
ers, It seems that our contemporary does
not desire that its readers shall see but
one side Of the question. In fact. the
Registers readers are forced to guess
what 1t is talking about.
Our neighbor simply reIterates its
stereotyped claims that the Wilson tar
III established the tin plate industry,
ignores the fact that the Democrats. In
Guiding Mr.. Wilson. declared we could
not make tin plate. and deplores that
we are not getting the 100000 revenue
from customs that we used to get, while
ignoring that many more. millions of
dollars that used to go abroad to for
elgn manufacturers and workmen now
70 into the pockets of our own produ-
cers-ln fact is retained in this country;
also strangely arguing that 1t was bet
ter when formerly the United States
treasury got 100000 year from du-
ty on tin pIate'-thus inconsistent with
the Democratic contention that the con-
gunner pays the income tax.
AS to the price of tin plate. which the
Register harps upon. and rails upon
what the trust has done. Tin and Terne
aimed to show the Register was mista-
ken, but the Register did not publish
Tin and Terne's article, and Its readers
do not know about 1t. Says the Reg
lister: "slnce the trust has been in OPP
Grafton 1t has arbitrarily increased the
price of tin plate to the American peo-
pie from 81 50 to 81 co per box, an in
crease wholly unwarranted by any ad-
vance in raw materials. while the sop
thrown to labor In the shape OF In
creased wages has been but drop In
the bucket compared with the increase
in the price of tin plate which the trust
pockets"
That it is all right for the Registers
stituency to read, but If. in connection
with Its comments and reply to Tin
and Terue, 1t had given its readers the
benent of the latter organs article. as
the Intelligencer did, they would have
been permitted to see what Tin and
Terne said upon this very point. 1t is
worth repeating. This is what Tin and
Terne said, and which the Register did
not quote:
After paying It's respects to our correc-
tions Of few Of Its errors, the Register
INDUCES In some rambling talk about the
taFtn, based on the statement that the
tariff gives the trust" g q box. As there
are one hundred pounds In a box. and as
the tariff Is one and one-hnlf cents a
pound. or 81 30 a box, It seems that moth
Ing but bare-faced lying will suit the
Wheeling style OF Journalism. The tar
Il was In the tariR law which was In force
for years before the Mckinley law.
THE AMERICAN TIN PLATE INDUS
TRY HAS BY ITS COMPETITION RE
WELSH TIN PLATE BY SEVERAL.
TIMES FIFTY CENTS BON. AND
PURCHASERS OF TIN PLATE IN THE.
S WITr SHATE IN % SP tyF N IL yHs III,
PRICE OF AMERICAN TIN PLATE
WERE ADVANCED TO JUST BELOW
THE IMPORTING POINT.
The tarlh does not give the American
tin plate Industry cent, AMERICAN
CONSUMERS ARE NOW BUYING TIN
PLATE a GREAT DEAL CHEAPER
THAN THEY WOULD BE HAD THERE
BEEN NO PROTECTIVE TARIFF PUT
M In In lei
by malicious falsehoods can show OF
eontroverting these facts be made II
the Register desires 20 lnvelgh against
trusts" there ought not TO be much din.
Guilty In finding suitable ammunition for
the purpose, and Il Is remarkable In View
Of this fact. that II should ever make any
reference 10 the tariff. which is a subject
in connection with tin plate which one
would suppose the Democratic papers
would leave severely alone,
The Register. by the way offers no
excuse for not giving the tin plate
authority the benefit OF its article. hut
contents itself with mIsconstrulng and
replying to 1t, as in the following sen.
tence: Calling the editor Of the Reg.
lister liar. and other bad names, which
decent journalists do not use, Will
scarcely serve to refute the array OF
hard facts the Register has presented
which the trust organ, despite It's blind
wrath. is mighty careful to keep away
from"
The fact Is that Tin and Terne, in the
article published in the IntelIlgencer
did quote from the Register, We hav,
Just shown that the Register did mol
quote from Tin ana Ternc.