Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-16

Profit to American farmer by purchasing
American made pillow in Canada ..---- SV
Flows with tempered steel mCltblnds
and beams, which sell 10 the Uoited
States for SIT aud upwards. are manutac
cured in Canada (fom Pi:tsburg steel, OIL
which duly has to bs paid, and tia wages
Of the wtrkmen are substantially the
same 90 in tee United Safes, and ale sold
for Sl4 retail, thus showing excess OF prof
it msde by American manufacture
over Canadian mauutactu:e- Of s. on each
pillow. When it is considered tina; the
Canadian manufacturer has 10 pay a duty
on his materials aud freight uIOa same "a
Canada from Pi,t,burgb, it will be readily
seen at q z ance that tire excess % piOd;s
To the American over the Canadian manu-,
fscturer is mucn greater than the sum
uamed, S..
l am credibly advised by g very p'Omi,
nent Canadian farmer that he has just
bought an American self-binding reapar
Walter A. Woo lei foe $110, laid down
Ia an Ane lean city, mar the lines, while
the price of same nacbiue in the same
place 80 al American farmer would be
from $3.50 TO $170.
In addIt 4 to the larger implements
mentioned, fsrners' or agricultural hard
ware imported from the United States con
sists of | ght shelf g,ods, dey paints, and
agricultural hsnd-;COls, such as spades,
shOvels, forks. etc. on which articles the
day varies from 35 to 40 per cent al
though the printed tariff reads only from
80 10 35 per cent. This Government has,
however, instructed its Gus ms officers 10
advance priC:s on invo:c in certain lines
which brings the duty up 10 q very nigh
rate. On scythes, for instance. by mean.
of q specific and al vslorem duty they
have to pay from 60 to 20 per cent.
Notwithstanding these tremendcu,
charges a careful comparison Of the whole
sale snd retail prices Of the above tools
shows that in al cases American goods of
this character can be bought in Canada as
chesp, aud, in many cases, cheaper
than in the United Sts'el
IL is exclusively proven by these
facts that the Am srican farmers are not
receiving the foil te1eft Of the low prices
at which these gco1s Can be produced in
tie United States.
These benefits are, apparently, reserved
for the Canadians aud other foreigners to
whose markets we .ItO t goods. But ex
istirg conditions enable the American
manufacturer 10 compel tie purchase Of
his goods By the American farmer at tNorb'
liant profits.
So great has been this d:scrimina-
ton By American manufacturers in favor
Of foreign purchasers that the Canadian
Gus N suthorltifs have coRe to regard
with suspicion the prizes on renly all
American invoices, as they cannot under
stand why these goods should be sOld to
Canadians at such great redutt.on
from the prices which they ere
sold at home, at the point
Of manufacture. As Q consequence they
have during the Fast two years lsrg' "
sdcp'eithe plan of spprsisirg these goocs
for duty at the home figures in preference
to the prizes stated in the invoices. Fur
instance, an American manufacturer may
be willing to s.ll q certain srticls for IS to
the Csusdian trade, the price for the same
article at home bang S.; the valuation is
plsced ut the latter figure, and even
though we sell for the former, tbs pur-
chaser has to pay duty on IS more than
the goods cost him.
The result Of this practice is that we are
losing u export trade to this sud oihsr
foreign counaiss-ihs failing eff Of the
American export trade 10 this p"rt on du.
fable ~srticlss in q year having teen
S211 O5s.
The short-sightedres of our msnutae-
in this respsct, 20 less than the de-
Of manufacturing in Canada, Is
this as il does other outside
markets to our goods, and is driving rs
back to trsds only within ourselves, to
the irj Jury OF our great AGRICULTURAL inter
ssts, In tbs REDUCTION Of the wsgss of our
working men, srd to the lessenipg Of the
products of our factories
wN DE 81. WASHINGTON,
Consular AGENT.
London, Ontario. September Is, 1888.