Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — THE AMERICAN TIN FAKE. [ARTICLE]

THE AMERICAN TIN FAKE.

A Chance for the Tin Plate Liar to Make a Fortune. The following letter to the Fort Wayne Journal is from a man who means business. Chairman Fairbanks, of the late Republican state convention, is respectfully invited to communicate with Mr. W. E. Haines. Mr. Fairbanks is reputed to be a large stockholder in the Elwood tin plate works and he should not allow Mr. Haines’ offer to go by default. Mr. Haines’ letter is as follows: Portland, Ind., June 29. This morning’s Gazette states that there is a “cargo of America* pig-tin in New York for sale.” I will give tIOO a pound for American tin. I have just come from California and there is no tin ore there or any where else on the American continent that has yet been discovered. I have been connected with the mining industries of this country for the last thirty years and know something about the metals and minerals of the /United States. I was at Elwood, Ind., last week where they are making a small quantity of tin for political effect. The tin ore used there and everywhere else in this country is imported from England many thousands of dollars have been expended in proepeoting for tin ore in this country, but without success. There has been no tin ore discovered as yet. The iron and steel used at Elwood and elsewhere in this country that is plated with tin is manufactured here, but the tin ore imported. As regards my integrity and financial standing, I refer you to any bank at St. Louis or Chicago. I consider it wicked to deceive the people about tin being present on the soil of the United States. Yours truly,