Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Many of the shipbuilders who testified before the Congressional Merchant Marine Commission, which has been taking testimony in various cities since last April, stated that foreign shipbuilders were purchasing steel plates, angles, etc., of American manufacturers much cheaper than American shipbuilders could obtain these products. When the commission was sitting in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. James E. Wallace, of the American Shipbuilding Company, stated that American steel was delivered In Belfast for $24 a ton, while the same steel cost purchasers in this country $32 at Pittsburg. His authority was the assistant sales-agent of the Carnegie Steel Company. This statement brought forth from Senator Galllnger, the chairman of the commission, the exclamation, “If that’s so, it Is an outrage and ought to be remedied.” The Indiana Republicans have shown good sense in “cutting out” the rough rider business from the present campaign. But in reaching such a conclusion they have acknowledged that it will take something more than mere display to defeat Judge Parker for the Presidency, and they realize that there has already been too much of the “rough" business In the President’s make-up to appeal to a thoughtful people. The “rough rider’’ silliness was well enough, perhaps, when Roosevelt was a candidate for the Vice-Presid-ency, but it won’t do this time. Yet the President is the same; the exigencies of the campaign are different. And that makes all the difference In the world to Republicans. . d The Tin Plate Trust has for over two years been selling plates to the Southern Cotton Oil Company Vand other exporting manufacturers of canned goods at about SI.OO per box below the regular prloes. It. offered to