Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-26
"A HEPCILESS EYpOSURE,n

| One OF the good results of the present can
| vhes hab been the complete and merciess eI
posure q the Democrat prete nse that certain
| Amer. can manufacturers sell their pro9ucts
| abroad chesper thaa taey Go in the United
| sfatea. This has been Done In his case of the
Oliver chilled ploT concern, the Mccormick
| Reaper Company and many other manufactQr-
| ers of farmers and mechanics tools. zeal"
| Brice spoke truly when he said That this is g
| campaign of infoImation."-TS ct. Louis Globe
| Democrat.
HISS the Globe Democrat observed this
little bit OF testimony going tie rounds
Of the press from men who are in the
business Of selling American manufac.
tured goods on both sides OF the RIO
Grande:
PIEDRAS NEGEAS, MEXTCO, Aug. Q, 1855.
To Wal er Negley, Hagerstown, Nd.
DEAR SIR-Iours OF the ID a. hand. 4 re-
| ply ] take pleasure In givirg you the figures
asked FOR as nearly as possible. First, in re-
gard to shovele Our shoyels bought for our
| Eagle Pass store coat US about S. er dr. zen.
exclusive of freight Our shovel. OF the came
| class and material cost us laid down in Pledras
Negras 81 81 per dozen. Another ittm: Agate
| iron ware cannot be bought for delivery any
wnere in the United States fer better than IS
per cent. discount la Piedras Negras we can
buy the same article from the same houaes at
| SO per cent. ci-coant. The list is the same In
both cases. These arc not the only articles.
D.sston's SANS can be bought with an additional
| 20 per cent. discount, showing that the manu-
| fac!urers could sell in homo markets in compe.
t!t'on with the outside producers. There fg.
| ures are only Partial list. Every article known
| TO the hardware trade can be bought for ef-
| port cheaper than they can for home consump.
ton. II ping tbs Will answer Jour purpose,
re remsth, very truly yours,
A. j. LADNER & BIO.
Am Iayit.j
~ bOusht the Disston saws fer my Eagle Pass
store at twenty i've (25) per cent discount; for
| my P,edras Negras store bought the stme saws
at forty five .45) rer cent discount from the
same list prices ! could not obtain forty-Hve
per oent scount on saws on saws for Gale In
| my Eagle Pass store.
| Il boughs In June lsst opal agate iro9ware fer
| my store ID PIedras Negras on which obtained
| thirty. Ave, ten and twenty I've per cent dis
count Ga similar articles bought from the
| same firm for my Eagle Pass store 1 obtained
| OILY ia enty-s7e yer cent discount from the
same llss pTices The ware bought for Eagle
| Pass was called '6rsts,' and the ware bought
| for PledTas Negras was termed seconds bat
could detect no difference in the qualify, and 1
| could not buy seconds for sale In Eagle Pa.s.
al. Frey steel shoTels bought last June, cost
| me s. II per dozen laid down in Piedrss Negras.
| The W II. Wightmau steel shove, bought in
| st. Louis, for my Eagle Pass stors, cost me be
tween S. and 81 per dozen in that city. If there
was any difference in the qualify of the rhovels
the Frey shovel was the better.
"a. j. LADNER & Bro"
"The state of TeNas, county of Maverick
Before me. James NJ. Goggn. q notary public In
and for the county OF Maverick, thi, dsy per
| sonally appeared A. j. L.dner OF the Il II of A.
j. Ladner x Bro, who. bsing By me duly sworn.
stated upon oattylhat the foregoing Is true and
correct.
"Wltness my hand and seal Of Off e this 18th
| day Of october, A. ID. ls;S
| H. 81 "JSMcsM GoGG n, Notary Public"
Tnis sttiiavl. very naturally stirred up
hornets nest, and certain msnufactur-
ers sre rushing into the newspapers with
replies to MsssrB. Ladner. Henry Diss-
ton writes letter to the Philadelphia
| Times, saying 1t is easy enough for men
who know nothing about their business
"to make this kind Of statement and to
mislead the public" and then he adds:
"There is one line CT our goods that sell a
little LsTer to the export than to the home market.
but on al other line, We get a better price for
| exports"
Commenting on. this, the Louisville
Courier Journal ssys:
Sol. seems the Messrs Lainer unter,tood
| their own business; they Understood wei!
enough what prizes they were sying, and this
| % all they stated. They did not cay Disston
was selling more than lone line" at lower
prices for export than for domestic consump
ton. They referred 20 one line only. and the
Diss;ons admit this Is true.
But they admit more than this when they say
"on all other lines we so. better price for
export"
Ii this is true; II English pauper labor can
not sell saws at American pri es In Mexico,
what have we to fear from EGG ish prices here
| or elst where?
| If in competitive markets p:ices for eaws are
| higher than in our protested markets. wha.
sense Is there in maintaining tariff on I'm
ported saws OF 40 per cent? And why should
| the Disston, contribute thousand, Of dollars TO
defeat reform bill which reduces the duty
| only one fourth, or to 80 per ut?
II the Disstons Go not sell a. tines but one at
higher prices for export than foI "mesiic con-
| sumption, then they have lied.
If they do; If under the tariff they ge: les,
for saws In the homs market than IL Me xico
they are fSols for supporting the tariff.
Referring to the AFFIDAVIT Of the Messrs. Lad