Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-08-18
a COMMON ENEMY.

Our friends, the enemy, have about re.
solved to bo the enemy Of every reason.
able institution ia the city. Within the
last few months, taking their cue. their
ideas, even their language, and often
their entire editorials from the bull
headed un-Amorican New York Evening
Post they have assaulted every interest
in Wilmington. II their influence was
equal to their zeal they would be 70 day
by their own volition the greatest enemy
Of industrial Wilmington Their latest
attack, for which they got all their am.
munitien from the Evening Post was
made upon the Wilmington Dental Manu-
featuring Company The editor, who knows
It all, cut paragraph from the Evening
Post, put on a few fixings, and published
it on Thursday as his own. He insinu-
ated, as dill the Evening Post, that the
American people were paying too much
for the gold filling in their teeth,
He.attelnpts to show that the American
people pay $i2 an ounce above what this
filling could be purchased for in England,
to the American Dental Trade Associa-
sion. This assumption shows that the
editor who knows It all, does not know
what gold is worth ia its crude state. Be
cause the duty is $i2 an ounce he jumped
TO the concl usion that this was more
than the comparative difference In the
wages Of gold heaters in this country and
England and the balance must be taken
out Of the man with filling in his teeth
and pocketed by the manufacturer Of
gold foil He tried TO teach, because
the duty is $40 an ounce. that this
amount is added to the retail price Of gold
foil, which is not true
According 70 the catalogue Of Messrs.
Clandius, Ash & Sons, manufacturers Of
dental supplies IN London, cohesive gold
foil is worth 1876 shillings, or $50 per
ounce Now according to the reasoning
of Every Evenings editor who knows it
nll the price Of an ounce Of gold foil in
the United States is the English price
plus the tariff which would be $42, with
alleged profit going into the manufac-
turer's pocket The Wilmington Dental
Manufacturing Company through its
agents, the Welsh Dental Company Of
Philadelphia, sells an ounce Of the same
kind Of gold foil for $2s, or So less than
it is sold for in free trade England. These
statements are facts, and the catalogues
can be shown in the office Of the Dental
Company TO prove it.
SO the duty is simply prohibitive now.
It has protected this industry until i'm
proved methods have been invented and
perfected and home competition has
lowered the price below that Of free trade
England
Now, another fact TO prove that the
manufacturers Of gold foil arenot pocket
ing tremendous profit. Pure refined
gold costs S9l per ounce Allow the
beater 81 for beating VISA make the cost
1872 After beafing, il has to be cut into
sheets Of a certain size So many to am
ounce, and carefully put in books. Then
themanufacturer sells it for $24 an ounce.
and all the cost Of labor outside Of the
beating, the loss Of scraps, every piece Of
which is valuable, and the manufacturer
profit come Of the 81 per ounce differ
snce. The local free trade organ at.
tempts to mislead the public by asserting
that the manufacturers make an enor-
nous profit. Another false assertion is
that the American Dental Trade
Association is made up Of only
three or four establishments. By the
way, Every Evening calls it the Amer
can Trade Dental Association, . and by a
strange CD coincidence the New York
Evening Post calls it BY the same name.
When it is really composed Of about
seventy firms, all there are in the country
Of any responsibility and standing.
Furthermore, it might be in place to
state here that since the association was
formed five years ago, the prices have
fallen steadily on dental supplies Of all
kinds AS an illustration, nitrous.
oxide gas, which FIVE years age
cost SO per 100 gallons. is worth
81 FER 100 gallons today. Every Even
ing also states that there are 20. 600 den
lists in the United States. There arc
about $4,000
Now that we have shown the falsitv Of
Every Evenings statements and assump.
lions. we wiz ask it's tariff class" TO lis
ten for q few minutes while we compare
the prices Of a few English and American
dental instruments, selected at random
from the catalogues mentioned before
In Claudius. Ash & Company's catalogue,
forceps Of a pattern so clumsy that Ameri
can dentists would not use them, are
quoted at 9 shillings (S216). Forceps
as good and Of lighter pattern, are
listed ia the Welch Dental Company
catalogue at $1.50, Nickel plated forceps
Of a much lighter and better pattern thar
the English make, are catalogued al
$225. There is a duty Of rs cents a pair
on forceps The English catalogue lists
lathe heads with two mandrels for S.. So.
The American catalogue has the same
with nine brass mandrels and far superior
bearings for IS 90 In the Enclisl et.ta-