Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-31

Gknows this. and none better, probably.
tthan the Pittsburg organsof the trust.
The attempt to confuse the two prod.
|slvcts is familiar trick.
After the passage OF the Nc
X nley bill experimental dipping
est adjustments, were, erectedsin various
paris of the, country, in whichtimported
blaclt plates were. dipped into imported
tin, smd the product. called American
tinplate" and used for campaign pur-
poses only. 1t, cut no figure in fthe
market People in Wheeling and tovef
the river know there was snOt sfull
fedged TIN mill in existenceain this, sec
ton untiltafter the passage of the Dem
put the law material of the industry
/ on the free list. Statistics, which The
Register has quoted time land again,
prove that tthe dewelopmentaof the tin
plate industry was almost entirely con-,
fined to 'thes days. of the Wilson tariff.
1t was, one of the industries (which was
not closed down iby hard times, which
uprooted business from oneiend offthe
countryr.to thei other. When the Re-
| publican spartys again, resumed control
of affairsN the industry had grown TO
the proportions of thirty nine different
plants, withva total of 273 mills. The
/ total numberlof plants to-day is lforty-
three, with capacitysof 293 minis, 279
of which are controlled by the. trust.
The development was, under the Will
son bill, which, gave the industry its
raw material, tin, free. All of the
plants. operated, ALI of the time. New
plants were built, old ones. extended.
1t is known thats atfleast' three or four
men made their millions during the
Wilson tariff era onsrin iplate. Atjleast
it seems that ala manufacturers found
the field proftables one. 1t is'folly 10
deny these welf-lzn owny facts. If! Tin
and Terne is ignorant of them it is
incompetent to beams organ. Of tthe tin
plate trade.
The trouble with cur 'Pittsburg con-
temporary is it has gomez out of itsl
field to defend the political organiza-i
ton which, while lit ,blunider1ngly ne-t
elected the legitimates tinplate indus-I
try, has since done,all 'inSits power tos
foster the tinplaIes trust, which, now.
has the industry and THE American
consumer of tinplate by ithee throat.
The organ knows its businessaand the
work it is subsidized to pc rfoTm, and,
from it's organic 'point ofsiview,j prob
ably it is not to, blame~s It's "busi-
ness"
The tinplate trust.is thetmost rapac-
fous monopoly that ever afiie ted the
american people, and it haSs grown up
under the fostering care of the Ding
ley tariff Correspondence 'fr)m An
derson, Ind, gives some int eresting
tinplate trust history. Last October,
before the trust which now controls
the industry, had gained controls of the
plants, tinplate was selling forpS2.65 a
box. A few weeks previous it was re-
corded as low as 1925. Manuf; icturers
were operating full force and making
money. 1t has been seven months
since the trust was organized. Wages
have been advanced Is per- cent; tin
plate has advanced $i62-a little over
! 50 in one year. The tariffs giving the
| trSst 81 box. The consumer is9forced
| to pay the tribute to the trust. That
protective tariff which the, trust IL
sticking down in its Golfers ,amounts
to $22 100000, which is not a bad &C
complishment for a 1000, 900 vtrslst to
accomplish in less than a year. The
workers demanded 20 per cent in
crease. They got Is per cent, which
amounts to half a million. Thus the
advance to its labor, whichs the trust
organs so delight to pirate about, is
really but one forty-fourth of the
trusts rake-off The other forty three
forty-fourths goes into the, Golfers of
the trust.
1t is outrageous that a trade %orgc7
such as the Tin and Terne of Pittsburg,
in whose accuracy and truthfu0ness in
matters regarding the trade thevpeople
are naturally inclined to HAYES faith,
should thus, and with apparents DELHI
Grafton, attempt to deceive the4 public
as to the truth regarding the manufac-
ture of an article of universal use.
Fortunately our contemporary has no
circulation outside the tinplate- trade,
except such as is given to its false
hoods, by such constituencies organs as
the Intelligencer. Within the trade
the truth is we'll known.