Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — “Reasonable Profits.” [ARTICLE]

“Reasonable Profits.”

The late William B. Leeds in a short time accumulated an estate of more than $30,000,000 by the manufacture of tin plate. The duty of S3O per ton gave him and his associates a monopoly of the American market and enabled them to carve not one but many fortunes out of the necessities of the American people. Possibly this is what Mr. Taft refers to as “a reasonable profit” for the manufacturer, but to the workingman It looks more like a graft tax on his buckets, basins, dippers, pans and his empty dinner pall.