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Show Before the writer, In a Democratic newspaper, Lj ijJB is an article denouncing the Tinplate trust. One MillBlfl would think, with tho history of the creation and wf lB progress of the Tinplate industry in this country, fif Jfllfl that Democratic journals would be silent on that acilMB particular subject. sBlisHfl The Democracy elected a President on the BUmBBB scare, awakened in the hearts of old women be- BilfiRfl cause of the perils that would come to housekeep- S SBBfl ers v the awful tariff on tin plate should be- IHH come Mve. There were no tinplate manufac- BSHH tories in tne United States. The country was pay- . BBB ing 122,000,000 per annum for the imported article, H flHI H'J fl w m four-fifths of the weight of which was steel, for II ' tin plate Is but steel or soft iron plate dipped in m m M melted tin. B wj S But the law did become effective, with the H MM result that the price of tin plate was a good deal B mm J advanced for a year or two, as it was expected that B IS, it would be. Then it was reduced below what had B m m ever been the cost of imported plate, and has re- B ' I M mained below that figure ever since, and quite Hh m ' $17,000,000 per annum has been added to the pay- H M ' rolls of American skilled workingmen on that ac- B I count |