Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The People’s partjr-leaders say they are going to make a lively canvass in Kentucky this year. They will do nothing of the sort. The Democracy is the party which would be hurt by a demonstration of that kind in Kentucky, and the people’s party has no stomach for a fight against the Democracy. The Peffers, Donnellys and Taubenecks will confine their political activity strictly to Republican localities.

No tin-plate worth speaking of has been made here, but there has been Ah advance in the prices of about 25 per cent, since the McKinley bill was passed. And this means an increased tax upon every family in the land. — New York World. The tin-plate clause of the McKinley law will go into effect July 1, 1891 —four weeks hence. If the Welsh makers have added 25 per cent, to the price of their plates it is not because of the increased duty, for thg good reason that it has not been increased, but because they have a monopoly and can make the price what it pleases them, as they have been doing for years, always being sure tomove the price up and down so as to make it dangerous for others to engage in the business. The fact that the makers have put up the prices 25 per cent, without cause proves that they have a monopoly, and affords another reason why the United States, which has iron, steel and tin enough of its own, and which consumes the larger part of the tin plates now made, should establish tne industry at home.