Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-07-05
THETlN PLATETRAD
100000. 900 SAVED TO -,
UNITED STATES. y
No Longer at the Mercy of the W.,
Trust Which Was Indepepds,.
Our Laws and Contributed M.
to Our Revenue.

THE manufacture of tin plate IN +,
United States was created by tho Nh
Kinley tariff Of 1890, the part,on'
section relating to tin and tin Mo /
going into effect on July |, 1891 i" so
Gen. Dick, secretary of the Renuhr,l
an national committee.
Prom that date until the end
1899 we have produced in this coun,r
,404,552 tons Of an article for WIFI.
there Is great demand here and whic|
both our late president, Mr.. CeyehnlI
and the Democratic prospective prex
dent, Mr.. Bryan, declared could nevo
be made in the United States.
Under the Mckinley tariff Of
cents per pound, our tin plate lndustr
thrved. 1t was permitted to exist NJ,
der the Wilson bill, with duty of
cents per pound, but it would not hav
lived under the Wilson bill had nd
manufacturers been enabled to mi
their plants at lower cost partly du
to the cheapness of wages, and par
due to the cheapness of raw material
both conditions Of cheapness being ord
ducts Of the Democratic free-trad
tariff.
Stimulated again by the Dingley DR.
tective tariff, the tin plate industry no
gives employment to thousands
workers at wages much higher eve
than those paid under the McKinld
tariff Of 1890. Consumers, moreove
are buying their tin plate at much Low
err prices than before the enactment 4
the Mckinley law.
Immediately preceding the eSta An
lishment Of this industry in 1884,
paid to the Welsh manufactures
most $26, 900 for their tin plate. O.
average imports had been at the rate
$40, 100000 year. Last year we ID
ported less than $4,000,000 worth
that there has been saved to this cOu
try upward Of $100,000,000 at lea
through the establishment of the
plate industry.
objection Is made by our Democra
ic friends to the tin plate industry
cause there has been an advance In
price in the last two years. But I'll
advance has been less than the ayera
advance of iron and steel articles, al
it is fully in harmony with advances
the cost Of raw materials, and with Y
advance in the price of tin plate
Wales.
Another objection made by the Der
ocrats to the tin plate industry Is tn
1t Is now controlled by trust, but th
never made any objection to the co
troll of our market by the British
plate trust before the ESTABLISHING
of our own industry. II
THE tin plate trade in Wales is re
ulated by the manufacturers al
every pound of their product is 50
through one selling agent, no matter d
what part of the world it may be sd
ped. There was no getting away lro
the prices that the tin plate trust wal
ed to charge. They eXtorted from
whatever products they saw it, ana
Democratic party fought tooth ana M
when the Republicans attempted 10
vert the profits Of this business INTO
own channels.
Admitting that there is TN pH'
trust, Is it still not better that our
quirements should be filled by uu'
in this country, rather than by uu'
in Wales? The American trust ~.
ject to American laws. 1t pays a~',
can taxes. The British trust is ho' Su'
ject to our laws, and contributes D0' +
cent to our system Of taxation fNK'
enue.
Another reason why, 1t seems
me. an American tin plate trust
ter than a Welsh tin plate trust II
cause the American institution IL
built factories here, has created
mand for building material ana iO' pc
chinery. The Welsh tin pla'e
buys it's building material anu u
chinery in England Still anolliei
the most important reason way =
American tin plate trust is more "
yantageous to us than the Ne,gn oo m
n,ate trust is because the American
Germ employees thousands anu
sands Of men here, paying them AD Dn
the highest rates Of wages lla' O !,
ceived by any wage earnel' ..nst i
ropntrv The Welsh tin plate 'ruS' u
the other hand, employees EnSnSu
Dor paying low wages, which are 5p =
n wales whereas the earnings o.
workmen are spent right mere , II
creating a demand for tnc p''
our farms and other factories >, not n
anything that even suggest, snon th =
for their country. Mr.. Bryan lid
Ieodar Is for free trade ana sno .no
= 49,, mated for and elected TO .u'
Ace Of President this ye"I ,,rars
American tin plate manufac'u," .as
- :, : ,rorrors in those mills, can IT, :,
s .ns So mat every effort will De s.'r
bv the Democratic parry " 20 ind
liz, Of the American tll' pa, hi
try, which will divert YER o ao o s into /
ness of at least sz', ,ds the Engl \