| Show TIN TIIT PLATE probably no item of the iho new tariff hill bill hs hits caused 0 so o much in 1 oils erf II elui as the laying of the ilia tariff on tin palto it has boon been described BI as nothing less than atrocity Inai inasmuch much as tin Is not produced lit in this country and not that twenty millions in gold vr or its was being annually sent away to purchase that very material but now they toll loll us that a great tin plate pato manufactory manti factory Is to bo be built in baltimore that several new processes for the iho manufacture of tin platen will bo be applied and about live five millions of dollars will bo be put into the plant itself at the ho same time lime wo we lire fire informed that foreign capitalists tire lire to erect creel a tin plate mill at duquesne ton ien miles cast of pittsburg burg at al a rest cost of at t which five file hundred men inen will receive employment bm also mr of st louis conj ana makes k CS public the statement that he hols 1 preparing to tire tin plates at ono of his wills mills in st louls louis and other news comes from pittsburg that I 1 two A 0 0 or r three mills will soon bo be at w work ork manufacturing tin plates in that city and a like report comes from chicago it if this all proves to 10 be true it 11 will mean that somewhere where from fifteen to thirty thousand men n ill HI obtain employment ina in a business N which Is not being carried on in this country at present and that the ages of these men w will III bo be distributed throughout this country and kept as part of the circulating media of this country but the opposition press say why should wo PRY pay an estra price tor for tin plate in this country lust just that a few wealthy manufacturers nia may pocket the lift proceeds referring to this branch ol of tho the subject the philadelphia press prem calls attention to tho the fact that when the tariff bill which fixed the abo duty on steel rails at 28 ton was before tho the house of represents lives in ISM this same outcry aga against inq t the iniquity of the measure was raised it will deprive our railroad companies of 0 the use of steel rails declared representative MARSHALL ol of illinois I 1 in the house except at enormous cs cost t 11 steel bled rails were then selling belling a at shu s ton the bill passed and tool steel rails wont went down until they were sold at a price aprice lower than tho the duty of 28 a ton imposed by that act and now this country cou instead of importing steel rails from england manufactures double tho the amount of steel rails falls that great britain does suppose this arrangement could bo be brought around also on tin plate then again it Is not a settled question that ne have not la in this country plenty of tin that we presume will t be demonstrated in the next two or three years A good many people think there is 14 no cud to ft in that caso case we should need neither tin nor tin in plate iron from the old country aid aad there would be nothing for a great many tin plate makers todo in the old country butto but to come here and make their homos homes T the he significant sentence in ono one of the tha above quotations 1 that several reveral new processes process e s for the manufacture of tin plate will b bo e applied who knows what the american inventor lu and mechanic will do when they got in tho the the tariff on tin plate Is liable to vindicate itself more siftley than its most sanguine friends expected |
