Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1892 — THE BILL FOR FREE TIN PLATE. [ARTICLE]

THE BILL FOR FREE TIN PLATE.

The Democratic Moose last week passed by more than a twothirds majority the bill reducing the duty on tin plate tty ono cent a pound for two years and thereafter making'it free. As-this bill woukh-leave unchanged all the existing duties on bituminous coal a;.d iron ore —both maintained in the Mills tariff'—on pig iron and sheet iron; in fact, bnjall the successive processes and’productions out of which tin-plate is made and of which, it is the complete product, the bill is equivalent to a m ensure to prohibit the manufacture of tin- plate in the United States, . This is, of course, done on the aa&m option that tin-plate can hot bq-naa de profitably in this country. 1 The facts tare that tin-plate is being in ado successfully in this country, that several millions of dollars are in>vested, in plants for '•its manufeeti ire, and over six thousand people are employed Tn the various tin-plate factories. The Democi rats would destroy •the new indusitry and throw all ! these people- oc it of employment.