Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — Tin is Cheaper. [ARTICLE]

Tin is Cheaper.

The Democratic and PeopoDemocratic judicial conventions, which met at Goodland Tuesday, were unable to fix up matters to the satisfaction of the schemers, and the Democratic- wing thereof adjourned until Sept. 22, and the Peopo-Democrats referred their share of the matter to the action of their party chairmen in the three counties in the circuitThe Democrats wanted to nominate Lawyer Saunderson, of Kentland, while the Peopos want a man who has never been in sight of a court house and could not know a volume of Blackstone from a stone fence.

—lndianapolis Journal. —A contract was made last week by the Climax Baking Powder Company for one and one-half million of tin cans. In conversation with a Journal reporter, a representative of the company, in reply to a question as to the influence of the McKinley law on the cost, said: > “This price paid for the cans Was about 15 per cent, lower than when the McKinley bill became a law, and about 7 per cent lower thair ever before. So far from raising the price of cans, the manufactuiers are winiug to c-ntract at this price for cue year ahead It shows that they believe it will become cheaper as the American factories get into full activity. Quite a large part of the cans ordered by us were made from American tin, but whether they are or not makes no difference as to the effect of the law. It was said that the law would raise the price to

the consumer, but the facts are the other way, as every practical man in a business requiring tin cans or other articles of till knows. AV ill* the price lower, and the rnnnn-1 facturer is paying the duty, and contenting himself with less profitsj The facts in the case show who pays the tax. What I have said I will if necessary, make affidavit in proof.” “What is the comparative quality of foreign and American tin?” was asked. “The American is certainly just as good, and I like it better. It is brighter and shows less of the black of the plate. There is no ground to disparage the quality of American tin. America wiH soon be supplying the whole of its own market.”