Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — To Form a Tin-Plate Trast. [ARTICLE]

To Form a Tin-Plate Trast.

Our paternal protectionist Government has taken the unborn tin-plate industry under Its -wing, and already there are signs that when the “infant” is born it wi 1 find a ready-made trust to enable it to feast and fatten on the tariff spoils. A late nuftiber of a high-tariff organ, the Boston Commercial Bulletin, prints the following piece of news: “Edwin Norton of Norton Bros., Chicagos, and C. R Britton, of Britton & Co., Cleveland, have visited the United States Tinplate Mill at Demmler, Pa., to see how that plant can be embraced in a reorganization of the American Tinplate Asso -iation; to include all the present members; to absorb the Western

Sheet Iron Association, which Is largely represented in Wheeling. Cleveland and Chicago, and to admit all Manufacturers of sheet-iron, steel billets and tin? plate who desire to become members—about 25 firms at the start." Npt*only are the people to be ma{ie .to pay a high tariff price for their tin plate, but apparently a trust is to step in and Shylock-like demand the drop of blood. In doing *his the tru-t will simply take advantage of the situation the McKinleyites have created. Why sWuld the people object to trust prices it they can tolerate McKinley prices? Tney should not forget that McKinleyism and trusts have the same objects in view, the enrichment of manufacturers by raising prices.