The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-10-20
PROOFS OF ROBBERY
tome Things to Which the Attention Of
Farmers Is Called.

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Farmers Is Called.
Those who are peclined to believe, as Gen
.ral Harrison invites them to-, that tariff
axes are not added to the price of domes-
&c goods. and at the same time that the
manufacturers can not possibly stand re-
luction, will please give their attention to q
lew facts.
In the first place there is the fact that the
American copper-mlue owners for years
sold vast quantities Of their product abroad
1t the worlds prices determined by free
competition, and at the same time would
not sell pound to their own countrymen
tor less than the worlds prices with our
Tariff tax added. This fact is established
~ price quotations and by testimony given
New York court OF justice.
Fact No 2. A gentleman recently told
the editor Of the Hagerstown (Md.) Max
;hat 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 q
pledge to sell none OF them in the United
States, got all he wanted at 81 each. The
Inference was equal to our tariff tax on like
machines when imported. The tariff en-
ibles the American producer to extort from
chine, or IS more than the price at which he
IAN afford to sell and does sell to foreign
srs.
Fact No. g On the I'd of last month Mr..
Walter NcgieT Of Hagerstown, Md, wrote
TO A. j. Ladner & Bro, at Piedras Nesras'
Mex, asking the prices paid by them for
certain American goods for sale at their
stores, one at Eagle Pass, in the United
iva Of
Mex The firm answered as follows:
ssOur shovels bought for our Eagle Pass
store cost us about IS per dozen, exclusive
IF freight. Our shovels of the same class
and material cost us lsit. doac,l in Piedr1s
2eoras 1891 per dozen. Another item:
Agate ironware can not be bought for de-
livery anywhere in the United States at
better than IS per cent discount. In
Piedras Negras we can buy the same
articles from the same houses at 80 per
cent, discount. The list is the same in both
eases. These are not the only articles.
Disston's saws can be bought with an add
uonal 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
nrers for export cheaper than they can for
home con sumption"
The shove}s 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 think
of it? What does he think CT system I'M
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 A1nes concern would
shut down and turn its worknen out to
starve if the duty on shovels should be en-,
tirely abolishedl Does he think that the
American manufacturers is unable to stand
alone, or shat he divides the tariff spoil with
bis workmen when he can afford to sell, and
does sell, in Mexico for S2.91 the same goods
for which he taxes the American buyer IS!
After paying wages he can afford to sell al
the lower price? How, then, can the work
man get any of the higher price obtained
from the American purchaser* If not,
isn't this high tariff g huge fraud?