Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — Keeping Money at Home. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Money at Home.

What do the tin plate cranks mean by all this talk;about “keeping jn the country the 825,000,000 or 830,000,000 that' we have been annually sending abroad for tin-plate.” The fact Is that we have not been sending abroad any money at all to pay for tin-plate, but have paid for it with our surplus commodities, mainly farm products. If the business of importing tin-plate is broken up by the McKinley law, the foreign market of our farmers will be made narrower; and the bushel of wheat and barrel of pork will have to remain at to depress prices.