Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Another Cent on Tin Plate. [ARTICLE]

Another Cent on Tin Plate.

The Tin Plate Consumers’ Association! published on the 10th ult a circular in wli cli tho following assertions were made; “It is a matter of business, and not of politics, that up to the present moment not one sheet of ioko tins, which eon-i stltute over half our entire requirements. lias yet bzen pnt on the market! by the American manufacturers, and! that the present output of all kinds does not constitute 1 per cent of tho entlret consumption of tin plate in America.! Again, it Is a matter of business that tho small lots produced havo only been! obtainable at prices considerably abovei what tho same quality can be ImDorted at, even under the increased duty.”A meeting of the American manufacturers or which this circular speaks ia to be hold In St Louis this month, and| It Is reported that one of the subjects to be discussed is a proposition that Congress shall be asked to increase tho duty) on tin plate from 2 1-3 cents to 3 1-5! cents a pound. Our hlgh-tarlff neighbor,! the Tribune, published a dispatch fromj St. Louis containing the following: 1 “It has beoti rumorod that ono of thei leading questions to be discussed is thei advisability of having a bill Introduced) In tho present Congress providing for> the increase of 1 cent a pound in the! duty on tinned plate, and ono of tho reasons given for the postponement of thei meeting from December 0 to January was to await tho result of tho Speakership contest to decide what kind of* proposition they would submit to Con-j gross." lu our own dispatches of yesterday* we published the admission of Thomas 1 K. Niedriughaus, of St. Louis, that a. movement to obtain an additional duty of ono cent a pound hud “been talked! about,” and also the lollowing remarks! made by Chares Knight, who buys tin; plate for a p omlnent company engaged! in manufacturing tinware: “There Is not enough tariff at prusent to k«ep tiie outside product fiom being! laid down In Now York choupor than Iti can be mu lo here at a fair profit l say 1 this as a bujor, and 1 know what wot get. and wo do not get American tin! plate, not because we will not use it, bub because It Is not on the market. 1 think! if tiie mutter was thoroughly sifted you* would find the shoot Iron manufacturers at tho bottom of It "

Neither tiie prleos nor the grades of! American tin plate are quoted in the, leading Journal of the iron, and steel 1 trade, tho Iron Age, but In Hardware! certain grades of “American bright tin, plato” are mentioned, without prices, and tho prlcesof “American roofing tin” 1 aro published. The figures permit thei following comparison to bo made: IVllNll Cl, TK. American, IC. 14x20 #3.25' M. K. grade (Kug lsh), lU, 14x20 7.75 Dean grade (English), 10, 14x2 5.75' Abiiroarne grade (English), JO, 14x2u 5.50 If Mr. Cronomeyer, Mr Medrlnghaus,| and tiieir associates shall decide at the! coming meeting that they cannot got along without an additional duty of 11 cent a pound (which would amount to about #7,000,000 a year upon Importa- 1 lions equal to those of 1890), it wilt bei necessary for oar hlgh-tarlff contempo-, rarles to revise an onorinous qua itity of urgument and assertion to which they l have Invited tho attention of the Amer-I lean people In tho last year and a half, and neither Mr. Allison nor Mr. McKln-l ley will care to bo reminded of the promisos they male for themselves and fori the manufa Jurors during the tariff debates.—New York Times. 1