Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Two Pictures Contrasted. [ARTICLE]

Two Pictures Contrasted.

In its issue of Nov. 21, the Manufacturer, the organ of the High Tariff Manufacturers Club, of Philadelphia, was printed the following editorial: “Messrs. Marshall Brothers, manufacturers of iron, at Front street and Girard avenue, Philadelphia, and members of -the Manufacturers' Club, are now making between six and seven tons every day of bright tin plate of good quality. They actually make the article lrom the raw material in the shape of steel ingots, which they roll Into plates suitable for tinning. The tin plate thus produced is sold as fast as It is made, and the firm is now preparing to double the output, so t! at. within a short time, it will be making between twelve aud fifteen tons a day. “We have two free trade journals in Philadelphia, and the methods of access to the Marshall mill are easy, and the cost of movement thither upon ahorse car small, and yet neither of them has undertaken to supply its readers with the facts respecting this Introduction of. an important new industry to PhlladeU phia. * This paragraph came to the notice of the editors of the National Provisloner who are in quest of bright tin plate in caftoad lota They a-cordingiy telegraphed to Marshall Brothers asking their prices for their tin p'ate. In due time they received the following telegram: “Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 27, '9l. "Tbe National Provisloner, New York: “Gentlemen —Your dispatch just received, and we are not at present making bright tin plates, only roofing ternes. Therefore have no quotation to make. We are making preparations for bright plates and later on shall be pleased to quote. Yours truly, _ “Marshall Bros. & Co. ■ Ought not the editor of the Manufacturer to have invested ten cents for a round trip, by horse car, to the Marshall Brothers’ works before pointing the way to others? The following item appeared la a Mississippi paper: “Rev. A. Cathy, a Methodist minister, aged 70 years, living at Burnsville, recently eloped with Misa Millie Marlor, aeed si years. The lady’s parents obj*»ted."