Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1898 — A Protection Victory. [ARTICLE]

A Protection Victory.

The proprietor and manager of the largest tin plate plant in the world, William Williams, has sold his Welsh interest and will locate in Pittsburgh. The Worcester and Upper Forrest Works, at Morristown, Wales, were sold in August at a public sale for £BB,OOO. The plaat was equipped with furnace and steel mills, but had been idle for some time. Two sons of Mr. Williams spsnt some time in the United States last spring, and, it is understood, leased land in the vicinity of Pittsburgh for a - tin plate plant. The loss of the great American market, the heaviest consumer of tin plate in the world, has necessitated this migration froqi Wales to the United States. It all comes of Protecting the manufacture of tin plate in the United States. Now we are making the greater part of the tin plate used here, and the cost to the consumer has steadily fallen to the lowest point ever known. To have forced the largest manufacturer in the world to close up his Welsh plant and invest his millions in an American plant, where the American rate of wages must be paid, is another of those Protection victories that have been coming thick and fast in the past year. The Kohn Tailoring Co. of Indianapolis will exhibit their assortment of fall and winter fabrics at Ellis & Murray’s Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 28 and 29.