Tin Plate

A tumor aíks whether tin articles vvould not liavc been rauch cheaper in tliis country if tbe Mills bilí bad been made :i law and tin píate put on the free list. We reply that if thatscctlon of the Mills bill had pased the price of tin plata woukl not have been dccreased, hut ited. As a proof we clip the fol1 iwjbk froin the Si. James Gazetle of London, Kng., showing that the simple p issiox of the Mills bill in the house led t' a large increase in the price of Engllsh tin pinte and that the price would have gohe s-till liiglier : " The passing by the United States House of Representatives of the Mills uriff bill, which places tin platea on the free list, has led to a sharp rise in the prlce of tii'. Yesterday, straits touched L89 7s OJ cit-ili and LS9 los three months. Tilia is an advance of L14 to L15 on the ligures quoted recently. If the Senate passos tbe bill in its present form tin will command hiüher prices than have ruied ot' late, and a great Ímpetus will be given to an important brunch of manufacture in this country. WIru it is rememhered that the value of tin plate linported into this country is about $25,000,000 annually, the importsnee of mailing it in the United States is nppareut. It has been computed, and i woiih) si.em correctly, that with tin píate wel! prutected, so as to insurc its manufacture here, it would glve eraploymcnt to at least 35,000 pcople. Moreover we Bhould have been absolutely dependen upon Ensland. The free trade how about iucreaalno; the price of the farmers tincup or workingman's dinner-pail is mere 'bosli." As befere said in these columns many a time, free trade false boods are oominonly made and as com monly rofutud by other free traders Tlms the American free traders declarei that if the duty on tin plate was taken oll' the price would go down, the Englisl free traders at once said "you're anothcr." AVe have not waited for the Senate to confirm the action of the House ol Representallves, but in the bare prospec of the ïeinovnl of the American tariil' wc have put Op the price of tin plate Queer fellows these American free trad ers. They have hardly made a statcmen in this country ere their co-workers in Engkwd dlsprove it.