Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-24
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FORT WORTH, TEX. Oct. ., SIS.
To the Gazette:
HAD bsan il hopes thai you would
answer my question paint? aad sq7are!y.
my question l., specific; 1. asks for the
su.aoEisy upon waic1 you make tina
Statement. "taat p!o8s wlicl COS. the
American fsE mar 1910 ST the factory On
the Oaio river, are sold In Interior
Mexican towns Tor So 50, alter paying 50
for frsigat" You attenp. TO answer IL
By rspu ousaiag letter over the sig
nature Of A. j Lldaer & BIO, il which
they s.Ste that "5hoyals" costing them
81 81 laid doRn In their store e. Piedrss
NsersS, |. e. On tle Haxicsu side, c0s5
them Sc per dcz;n, not including freight
- Eagle Pass, /. c on the American side.
You furthermore suggest tas. Il the
sesten ant thas the discount III favor 0;
Mexico Is 5i1 per cent! on "sl0vels" be
tue, it Is nos very dfi;ula 10 believe
some one eise'B Statement that the dis
couut in favor Of Nj .xico On "ploRs" Is
So SO per cent. This IS simply doGgilg
the elestioH. What bsye "shovels" 10
SO with "ploEs?" and Whist has the
sSsts ment Of ".nis.sid" psper 10 do
with the editoti,l atGgement CT the Fort
Worth GAZETTE?
In your editorial q Saturday you did
not say that 1t is 'clk,med" by this, that
or sae other party that ploHs are SOLD 80
muca cheaper in Mexico than il the
U1iied S;a.es, bus you p.ainly state such
20 DC tie CASE, snd go 50 far es TO s.sts
how mu;a cheaper the Identical p:oT lie
sold to the Mexican farmer th.a TO the
American farmer. To my request that
yo1 name ihe au.horiy upon watch you
make so remarkable statement, you
have failed to give releVsnt an
gHer. Now. l fuo1nit TO you tbas if
statement Is made tina. Is not funded
on fact, ond that state men. sends TO Gre
ate the impression Ihs. American ploN
malut.oiurers are charging go much
more TO customers a. home than they
charge their foreign customers, suca G
statement becomes m!scaisvlous, and Is,
II no. Intentionally, certainly uninten-
;i0naliy interruptions.
Ism prepared to pr1ye 10 sny person
suffi ;ian:ly Interested in tie premises to
write TO me IL your care, t1it American
plows sTe not sold to Mexican merchants
8. larger discounts than those paid bS
T.xas merchants. I furthermore ASSERT
thst at least one Of the two American
plow factories having reguIsrly estsb
l,shed trade Gin broad ssnse) II Mexico,
oteins better prices for their goods IN
Mexico than it does in Texas.
Any intelligen. business man can figure
out the inexscttude Of your statement
from the vsgy figures given By You; but
the large clsss Of farmers and vosers
who bu7 one CT two plows each yesf,
has not the dsts tina. would convince him
in the iscs Of your extraordinary etsss-
ments, that he is not being robbed 5y the
plcw manufacturer OF his sgsn.. For the
bensns CT thesaI submit. the following
igures: &
A plow thst retsits st IS 10 in .oain
Usually retails at the 'saIns price pG;aEy
railroad point Of Tsx.s. , Sueh
. pioH weighs from forsf,to fity pounds.
Freight to most Texss points In csrle sd
lots Is 40 cents ISsS.- loo pounds, sfsin
round figures 80 cdnts per piow, slow-