The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-08-01

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Lever cutter. ..................4.25 S.OO
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Sweep. 5000 5000
The following telegram from the
"Ax trusts gives a list OF
quotation discounts, giving the
Spanish choppers an advantage OF
80 per cent or more over the farmers
and lumbermen of the United States:
The AMERICAN AXE AND Tool Co., !
MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWARE,
Troy, N. Y, May 80.
Dear Sir: We now beg leave to
submit the following quotations OF
goods of our manufacture-for ex-
port only-which please regard as
Terms, thirty days.
Freight prepaid to New York, Bos-
ton, Baltimore or Philadelphia.
HURD's .CAsT-sTEEL "RAZOR-BLADEs"
TOOLS,
See catalogue. Page Is to 26.
Broad axes and AIDES. Dist
Bench axes. Dist SO, 10
Hatchets........ .Dis't} and 5
Boys half andquarter axes per cent
DISCOUNT
Mattocks, long and short SO and 5
cutter ...........D Dist per cent.
Brush hooks, axe-pattern 1925
eye handled per Dozen. net
BLAIR's CAST STEEL "vICTOR" TOOLS.
Broad axes and AIDES, discount so
and 10 per cent.
Bench axes, discount 60 and 10 per
cent.
Hatchets, boys half and quarter
axes discount so and 5 per cent.
THE AMERICAN AXE & TOOL co.
The advertising columns of the Eek
port" or foreign edition Of the En-
cheering and mining Journal con-
tain a list OF quoted prices OF the
"Planet Jr." implements at from 80
to 60 per cent discount on the prices
to American dealers, with freight
charges paid to the seaboard. The
World makes the following state
ments regarding various articles Of
tools and machinery
In table cutler the seven large
manufacturery are in a combination
to control. prices and output. To-
day they are paying $12. 900 a year
to a factory at Beaver Falls, Pa to
stQy idle and not to produce cutlery
in competition with the Trusts, and
the agents OF this combination,
Tommins & Adams, 1922 Chambers
street, declare that they are selling
their table cutlery at from Is to 25
per cent. less to the export than to
the home trade. The Ann Arbor
Agricultural Company advertises
that it will put one OF it's standard
mowers on board ship in New York
harbor ''for export only" at $40.
The lowest price at which that
mower can be bought in Ann Arbor
by dealer there is $45, and the
lowest price at which the American
farmer can buy it is $50, while the
Spanish farmer gets it for $40.
The Farm Implement News also
gives the lowest price of the sulky
rake in this country at $1S. That
rake costs only $14.25 free on board
New York ''for export only"
The nine-hoe grain drill quoted by
the Unos at $50 here and $40 in
France can be bought for export for
S51 on board ship at New York-$9
cheaper than the American can pur-
chase it.
1t is beyond the range of possible
doubt, that industries which sell their
products to foreign nations at from
10 to 60 per cent. below the prices
charged home consumers, are able to
earn their living without government
tariff support. A factory whose idea
OF the "home market is to charge
the American farmer $1S for the same
pillow for which it charges the Spanish
farmer SO, is in a fit condition to
earn it's own living. The tariff does
not exist for such purposes. Protec-
ton is for industry, not for such
high-handed dealing. In the ends of
Justice a thorough investigation
should be set on foot by Congress to
locate and place on the free list all
Industries engaged in the business of
exporting to foreign countries and
home consumers stand
double prices. There seems to be
some two or three score of industries
in that business. These, with the
one hundred trusts known to be or
ganized, would be a fine installment
of candidates for the free list. and
when SO located would gladden. the
heart of the American home con-
sumner.
Resolutions from Bro. French re-
ceived.
The letter from C. L. LIE Vesconte.