Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-31
THE POOR PARTY.
PROOFS OF ROBBERY
Some Things to which the Attention OF
Farmers Is Called.


Farmers Il Called.
Those who are inclined TO believe, as Gen
eral Harrison invites them to, that tariff
taxes are not added to the price of domes-
tic goods, and at the same time that the
manufacturers can not possibly stand re-
duction, viii please give their attention to a
few facts.
In the first place there is the fact that the
American copper-mlne owners for years
sold vast quantities of their product abroad
at the worlds prices determined by free
competition, and at the same time would
not sell pound to their own countrymen
for less than the worlds prices with our
tariff tax added. This fact is established
by price quotations and by testimony given
in New York court of justice.
Fact No. 2. A gentleman recently told
the editor of the Hagerstown (Md.) Nal
that he went to New York TO buy certain
machines to sell in South America. The
regular price to American dealers is $l2
apiece, but this foreigner, upon signing a
pledge to sell none of them in the United
States, got all he wanted at 81 each. The
difference was equal to our tariff tax on like
machines when imported. The tariff en-
ables the American producer to extort from
the American purchaser S12 for 81 ma
chine, or 50 more than the price at which he
ers.
Fact No. 3. On the I'd of last month Mr..
Walter Negley, of HagerstOwn, Md, wrote
TO A. J. Ladner & Bro, at Piedras Negras,
Mex, asking the prices paid by them for
certain American goods for sale at their
stores, one at Eagle Pass, in the United
States, and the other at Piedras Negras,
Mex. The firm answered as follows:
"Our shovels bought for our Eagle Pass
store cost us about So per dozen, exclusive
of freight Our shovels of the same class
and material cost US laid dOlCn Ia PedrGs
ae0rds $2.9l per dozen. Another item /:
Agate ironware can not be bought for de-
livery anywhere in the United States at
better than 35 per cent. discount. In
Piedras Negras we can buy the same
articles from the same houses at GO per
cent. discount. The list is the same in both
cases. These are not the only articles.
Disston's saws can be bought with an addi-
tional 20 per cent discount, showing that
| tie manufacturers could sell in home mar
kets in competition with the outside produ-
GERS. These figures are only partial list.
Every article known TO the hardware trade
! can be bought from American manufact-
urers for export cheaper than they can for
home consumption"
The shovels referred to are the Ames
shovels, manufactured in New England.
Will the Western farmer and the West
ern working-man, who isn't a farmer, just
/ look that over again and see what he thinks
/ of it, What does he think of a system un-
/ der which the American manufacturer ex-
torts from him more than twice as much for
a shovel as he demands from the Mexican
Does he think that the Ames concern would
shut down and turn its workmen out TO
starve if the duty on shovels should be en-
! tirely abolished! Does he think that the
American manufacturer is unable to stand
alone, or that he divides the tariff spoil with
| his workmen when he can afford 20 sell. and
| does sell, in Mexico for 81 the same goods
for which he taxes the American buyer S6.
After paying wages he can afford to sell at
the lower prices How. then, can the work
man get any of the higher price obtained
| from the American pdrcbasers If not,
| isn't this high tariff a huge fraud.