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Show Tub free trade paper have been howling about an offer made in New York to take 6W0 boxes of American-made American-made tin plate at $.1.10 per box. The offer, was published in the Post as ''A Hona Fide Offer," and the free trade organs have been in great glee because it was not accepted. The expose of the hoax contained in the proposition proposi-tion will be carefully ignored by them. The offer specified a certain high trade of plate, tho manufacture of which has not yet begun in this country and which cannot be purchased at the price offered. The trick has beeu exposed, aud a counter offer has been published to take 6000 boxes at that price and to give the seller the option of delivering it in installment of 1000 boxe a month. The original offer was made to prove the assertion that no tiu-fi late was being made in this country. coun-try. The gentleman making the counteroffer coun-teroffer has shown that he offered to book tho linn's order for 2.")0 boxes per week of American-made plate for as long a time as they should choos?. Tho "tin-plate liars" stop at nothing. They iudulge in wild assertions, just as the "ateel-plate liars" did when that industry was iu its infancy; but they will soon be glad to have the public forget for-get that thejr ever claimed the United Slates could not produce this important |