The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-10-31
ANN ARBOR, MlCH., y. 8. a.

5BSssa.s
'ass.s sss.ecs
need buy only one hand plough. The dis
counts ore given when he buys as adver-
tised.
These are not prices limited to tho for
eign subscribers of the journal, or even
to the foreign readers of the journal.
They are the market prices at which the
export agent In New York must sell,
and if he refuses to sell at these prices
the foreigner may remit to the journal
and have the orders filled. Here is let
Ter from the journal which was read in
the Senate during the last week of the
tariff debate:
ENd1NEERINa AMP MINING JOURNAL. NV
YoRK. Aug. &c. 1890. DEAR SIR: j am
obliged to you for the letter of Aug. 20 re-
spectinC proceedings taken in the Senate ro-
garding our Prices Current
Prices quoted BY rs are, as you will notice
at the head OF the first column. FOR erpqrt
oplg.' and the prices therein given are the
prices at which every foreign subscriber
can buy in this market. II stands to reason
that orders FOR farm implements are fre-
quentlv for one only. II TO buy one machine
is retail trade, then these foreign prices are
retail prices.
Oar domestic rnbscribers are haired
from the p"icea quoted in these columns.
These special discounts are For Export
wo have lost our advertiser through our
publishing these prices.
! incloSe az inCotce J1'om s. Allen d Co. 4,
,Chich yOu 1CNl see Is roi' one or the machines 5
conforms exactly with our prices as
reprinted by you in "Thc World" nDd
that tho net price or The bili is exactly
Rs stated by yau In "The World.'
Your statement hat the foreigner can oul
al retail IN THIS MARKET cheaper. Than
ne domestic coRS@nej', is as indisputnable as
the daily. revolution of the earth. We, can
enumerate any number of instances where
houses have written TO us: Prices fur
nlshed nrc for expert only, md it would
bc most injurious to us if these figures
were cirrninted in the 'homc market -
In going through our letters this morning,
we counted no less than Gfty- eight received
during the month Of July, thanking us fol
publishing the - Prices ,Current.' as it en-
| prices charged them on their indents
Yours, very truly,
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL
Tot. J.. Wilson.
This disposes of the Misrepresentation
that the prices quoted for the foreign
| differ in kind on the slightest from thos
quoted for the American. The foreigne
and the farmer buy on the same footln!
precisely. They buy IN the same marke
and from the same people, and In IN
same amount as the foreigner. BUI
THEY PAY A DIFFERENT PRICE.
HONEST CONFESSION.
The editor of the Farmers Call. pub
lished AT Quincy, H., is a Protection
ist. The Farmers Gail is an outspokei
advocate Of Protection. The edito
wrote to A. i. farquhar, President O
the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, a
| York, Pa, who is one of the largest ex
porters and one of the richest of the pre-
| tected mill-owners OF this country. ask
ing Mr.. Farquhar for the facts 70
publication. MIR, Farquhar answered hi
letter and gave him "the facts" .whic
tho editor OF the Farmers Cal was brav
enough to publish. Mr.. Farquhar's lette
is as follows
| The - fact is that our protective law
are II mOnstrous swiudlc upon the nEr
culturai community. As a manufacture
| was inclined to say nothing upon the snl
| iec., for the reason thnt II was natural I
suppose ii any body was benefited il was tn
manufacturing class, to which | belong
Bnt. as / have explained, the farmer IL De
inr desIr0ycd. Ne are killing the COOS
Tor the golden .egG. And ! honestly. bt
lieve now that it is 10 tho interest of tn
manufacturers themselves to eliminate III
prGtoctiye feature from our tarlll laws.
ARE SOLD MUCH LOWER ABROAD
we conld only need protection 10 E'
better prices from oar customers Il
hnme. We do mauufa oture and sell in Car
1
cultural indictments aud machines, and coul
we have iree raw material and the CONNER
clal advantages which free trade would Civ
Ms, America would become the great mani
iacturing emporium OF the world. and II
farmer Oi course would share the pro
ucrl,y, since he would have less to par iC
everything and get better prices for all /
sold. Go on with your good work. Mhe
the lnrmer hcgins 30 'nink and rise u
ugains, this s~indlo il is doomed.
The Iron Age, one of the Oldest an
most devoted advocates of Projection
this country, SAYS (Sopt. ~;
II has been denounced as an tliquitol
proceeding that American producdrs snou
lie willing to let foreigners have iPoods
: prices lower than those which they Al
, American consumers 10 az. 4 r0S dinOU
Of fgi9eHee ias been presented TO r9tr a ia
Oft"biuh errtY one il h3SttsS9 Is JNt GtrgT
| IL IN done in many lines ana IN FUZZY iusI
aahlr, nor alone ON broad Erou'ds
, pniicy, bu' also as a measure bene1ci
20 AmrricRn CunHuiuers.
/ TALsEHoop AND FORGERY.
TO deceive and delude the Repubiicr
l farmers the American ICOuomist--ol ci
? organ of the l4,jU0 protected mill-oN
ors--tuOE "a copy OF the weekly edition,
= Engineering and Mining journal, viii,
= does not contain the export prices-tl
latter Icing published only in its month
editiOn-and described Il AS fol!Gwsj
The Eail and frpQrt J1uual and the A.
. irUiluua circulate 4lmost exclusively amo
,ag Jou1,rl CONTAINS htue, 40 Us uauo in
| Gates, thai would lrtere.t farmers, A rue l:d
q belong = lts adyStrins list, ana that OF
y EugiHtering and N.Wn3 JgafHgt shows that
0 dred advertisers OF at lea. one hundred diner,
!, glasses OF goods or Sc Vices and not one Of IL
y offers Agricultural Imp emeuts. This pa
o knows thatitls quite safe 20 assCrtinp that u q
K ioreign sGgseredS can Iny az the ioT, rates
/ VHItlse4. Tor II ELuMB how few them