Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Democratic Sentinel claims to quote the words of a local dealer in saying that the reason why tin fruit cans are not higher this year than last year “may be attributed to the throat-cutting process so easily resorted to by some dealers." It is certainly an extraordinaly circumstance if the habits in business of a few Rensselaer merchants has the effect to keep down the price of articles of tin manufacture all over this broad country. Take the neighboring town of Delphi, for instance. There, sevoral weeks ago, the Jonmal published the statements of about a dozen dealers, every one of whom said that tin cans were selling at the same price as last year, and no one has been found to deny the truth of their statements.—Rensselaei Republican. And no donbt the Delphi gentlemen will say with the dealer in Rensselaer, “I pay $2 per box more for tin this year than last, but I sell cans at the same, even though there is nothing in it, because my competitor has chosen to do so.” "The habits in business of a few Rensselaer merchants,” and “about a dozen dealers" in Delphi, doesn’t seem to have a following, however, among the dealers in How ard county, adjoining Carroll, as the following indioates: THE FARMERS AND THE TIN PLATE TAX. [Kokomo Dispatch.] The farmers of Howard county are enjoying an expensive but, it is hoped, instructive experience in the operation of the tin-plate schedule of the McKinley bill. That measure was to stimulate the tin industry of the country. Manufacto. ries were to spring up in every quarter and every artiole of tinware was to be made as plentiful as the blades of growing grass and almost as cheap by the added tax. Well, the farmer who still clings to tin cans for preserving his fruits and vegetables finds that they cost him 65 cents per dozen this fall, instead of 50 cents per dozen, the price he paid last year. He now begins to look about for the infant industries this tax has stimulated, and with very good reason, too. The farmers of Howard county planted hundreds of acres of tomatoes. The crop isexcellent and every grower stood to realize from $35 to SIOO on the acre. There is no ohance of this now. To-day the Kokomo oanning works refused to receive another bnshel of the vegetable for au indefinite time. The reasons given is that oans for packinf the tomatoes cannot be had Thousands of bushels are rotting in the yards at the works. Tons upon tons are decaying in the fields. The loss to Howard county farmers cannot be counted in less than five figures. No wonder they are asking for the whereabouts of the “infant tin industries.” Bald heads aro too many when they may be covered with a luxuriant growth of hair by using the best of all restorers, Hall’s Hair Renewer.