The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-07-30
GREGGS DISCUSSES
 TIN-PLATE TARIFF
Georgian Answers Philadel phia
 Papers Arguments
EXPORTERS GET BEST PRICE
While Home Consumers Pay s4.1s per Hundred, Foreign Dealers Are Charged But $3.19-The Same
 Rule Holds With Lead.

Washington, July 2s.-lspecial.) )-chair- man Griggs of the democratic congress sional committee today gave out the following statement:
 Tt is somewhat remarkable that out of all the comments on the difference in prices given in my recent interview on trust made goods in America and in foreign countries, that the prices quoted on any two articles have been in any degree attacked, viz: Tin plate and lead
 The Philadelphia Press. whose editor is a most excellent gentleman, who made good postmaster general under Presi- dent Mckinley, says: As the United States exported a few dollars worth of tin plate in the last fiscal year, while 1t imported nearly six million dollars worth, 1t may be seen what wonderful argument Chairman Griggs has brought, therefore, against the tariff on this ques- tion of the price of tin plate.'
 Let us see what there is in this Ii is true that for ten months ending April. 1892 the exports in domestic tin plate amounted to only 1,5S5977 pounds. valued at S62s2O; but, If the tin plate trust makes a standing offer of tn plate at $S.l9 per hundred pounds to exporters and charges $4.19 per hundred pounds to American consumers, the statement nev- ertheless holds true that tin plate is sold at 1 per hundred pounds cheaper In for eign countries by our manufacturers, whether we export directly ten or ten million pounds.
 Difference In Price.
 Tt is exceedingly refreshing to have the Press appear to believe that 1t can md all of the tin plate exported report ed in the treasury statistics under the head of tin plate. The trust sells to ex- porters of canned goods tin plate to be used only for export purposes at $S.19 per hundred pounds. While the tin plate Is not shipped as plate, the tin is sup piled to these exporters of oils, etc, for cans, boxes and the like at the prices named, and all of tho tin used for this purpose is certainly exported tin, Just as if it went out in the shape of tin plate.'
 T understand that cotton seed oil and nearly all of our other goods exported in tin vessels, except the Standard oil company's products, are sent out in packages made of American tin plate. which is sold to them, as I have stated above, at $3 19 per hundred pounds, while for other purposes %19 Is charged. The Standard oil company is practically the single exception.
 '"The Press also waxes sarcastic about our comparatively small export of lead and wishes to know how it is that our lead producers can afford to sell lead abroad at one-half of the price they ask at home, when foreigners can export over two hundred million pounds to the United States, pay the duty on 1t and unI ak n|A duty on lead is 2M cents per pound. The smelters trust keeps the price of lead here up to the tariff level of import ed lead, hence, it is not strange that inn porters bring in great quantities of lead ! and sell 1t at profit The fact that we exported about three hundred thousand dollars worth of lead last year, shows what exorbitant profits the trust must be making on lead sold in our markets at cents per pound.
 Other Trusts Involved.
 Many of our exporting trusts are charging such high prices at home that foreign goods are competing freely here as well as abroad The wire rope trust, which Is said to have given the republi- can committee hundred thousand dol lars in 1896. and got the tariff schedule fixed to suit itself. Is exporting wire rope to all parts of the world while selling in our markets at prices from 100 per cent to 300 per cent above it's foreign prices. Thus are the foreign trusts milk ing the American consumers. But what say our friends about wire nails, wire rope, shovels, axle grease, washboards, meat choppers, barbed wire. clocks, lawn mowers, fruit jars, typewriters, sewing machines and pianos, which are made in America and sold in America at from 40 per cent to 100 per cent more than they are solC for in foreign countries? Let us talk about all of these things.
 Let the Philadelphia Press try it again. It may fare better the next time 1t challenges our figures