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Show TIN PLATE TALK. A Few Plain Facts Paralyzes Republican. Theories. A Traveling Man "Who Sells Tin Plate Has a Few Worda to Say Wherein Did McKinley Reduce the Price of Tin Plate? Of course to the thinking man, ail t his bugaboo about high tari.f reducing the price to consumers of any articles of merchandise upon which it is placed is taken as so much of the froth of shallow minds that have been sadly stirred up. j In the late campaign the McKinley i bill was lauded to the skies, by people who knew little if anything about wli-.it thev were sreaking. Tin plate was the great cry with local Republican orators. Its cost to the Consumer was to be reduced and American Am-erican tin plate was going to be used, but now all this glowing talk is knocked cold bv a few statements from a man who makes his living by selling tin plate! Mr. McMahon, representing Rector it Wllhelmy Co., of Chicago, was in town yesterday, and from quite a chat which a reporter had with him we cud the following which speaks in thundering thunder-ing tones and needs no embishment by us or wordy arguments. Facts speak louder and stronger than any article we might write, or oration an orator might deliver. Mr. McMahon is soliciting! orders for tin plate and our ie-j porter was detailed to interview him. j After stating to the gentleman the! object of the interview he said he w ould cheerfully give any information he! Could. In answer to the question as to J how the price of tin plate compared! with that of eight months ago. he re- plied that there was a difference of j from $2 to S2.25 higher per box. In the : last thirty days the price had risen $1.U0 j a box on stock tin. The price is about j $3 a box higher on rooting tin am! j about $2.25 a box on stock tin iu tho j last twelve months. j "Well, what do you consider is the cause of the advance in the price?" queried the reporter. "Whey! the McKinley bill," he promptly replied. "What is tlie outlook for a decrease in the price?" "There will not be any decrease, but an advance will take place immediately, immediate-ly, and other advances will follow." "Does your firm handle much tin plate?" ! "We handle 20,000 boxes of plate per ! annum, and receive it direct from the! mill." "Is the advance in price the same with eastern firms as it is with you?" "Yes, sir." "'In regard to the output of American Ameri-can tin, how much tin can the American Ameri-can mines supply?" "The mines will scarcely turn out enough tin to supply a city as largf ws Salt Lake. I have no ,eeu any .,tT"rr A""AujW r.'5 ' t tion was attracted by a horse w hinnying hinny-ing in the stable, lie went there uiid found the animal nearly dead for want of food and water. This caused him to examine the house, and finding the doors locked he returned to town and reported the facts as he found them. A posse at ence started out to the place and forced the door open. They found the whoie family dead in bed. Each had been murdered, and the work had evidently been done j while the victims were asleep, for none ! had struggled. Bell and his w ife both ; had their heads crushed, while the hoys had thi'ir throats cut from ear to ear, evidently done with one ia.-h of a knife. . .Not a thing was disturbed in the bolide and there was not ;t clew to perpetrators of tlie crime, i The above telegram was shown United Unit-ed States Marshal Parsons yesterday morning. Marshal Parsons said that he did not bt lieve there was one word I of truth in the alleged item, lie has I a subordinate located near St. George who visits that village at leat three I times a week, and had there been a I shadow of truth to the alleged killing of Bell, Marshal Parsons would have 1 been-notified-long ere this. |