Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — THE UNBORN INDUSTRY. [ARTICLE]

THE UNBORN INDUSTRY.

In Anticipation of It* Birth the Peo 8 •15,000,000 a Tear. 1 [Senator Voorhees,J u If this somewhat elaborate desorij ' the manufacture of one of the great of plain domestic life may seem ti to senators, perhaps it will seem le the industrious housewives of the o especially when the amount of ta are made to pay on their kitchen u and the reasons for such taxatu pointed out and explained. There a mill in the United States, and 1 never has been, engaged in the mt < ture of tin-plate. There are but American mills which produce evi iron plates, or black sheets necessa the manufacture of tin-plate, and tb nual product does not exceed 12,0(X Those who make tin cups, tin bi tin pans, tin spoons and tin dishes j tables of the poor, import all the til uttjd in their business. In 1889 the ported 377,000 tons, whiqji was cut i made into tin-ware for household poses, and the people of this coun,tr for this tinware more than s9oio The duty on tin-plate under exiatin is 1 cent per pound, and the net re derived last year from this amounted to at least $5,541,900, pa those who purchase and use tinware But that is a mere tap on the till < industrious masses, the bread-winne busy bees who gather honey for the lent, bloated drones of the hive compared with what the McKinli now reposes. The finance commit this body has reported a bill to us r the tariff tax on imported tin-plate cents per pound—an increase of J. 2 cent, over the present rate, and sw the aggregate of revenue oh this on« of goods from a little over five millioi a half annually to over fifteen millio lars. •