The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-10-17

Chains, per pound. "a IL
rue. .-...................... % 20
door Ia cn .-.-..-..--........... 20 "
Covered pail...... ............ 2OI 10
MneelDarrow........ 40 %
Pie plates, per dozen. .......... 20 50
Mortise lock-. .................... BOZ 80
Cistern pump. LI5l %
Universal wringer........-......l ZOO 3.oO
sReduced Is per cent.
SENATOR HIsCOCK, OF NEW YORK.
Mr.. President, l have examined with
great care the charges that have been
SO confidently made by Democratic
newspapers, and reiterated on the floor
of the Senate, that American manu-
facturers were selling their goods to
foreign dealers and consumers offering
them freely at the large discounts given
from the prices at which the same
goods were offered to the same class of
American dealers and consumers The
misunderstanding, il tits that and not an
attempt to falsify and deceive the pub
lie, is occasioned by the fact that the
retail price-lists, less the discoun is, are
given as the cost of the goods to foreign
jobbers There is no foreign retail trade),
and the retail price-lists, without dis
counts, as the cost to the American job
bers, when the most casual investiga-
tion would have satisfied Senators on
the other side that equal or greater dis
counts were given from those retail
prices to the American trade. 1t has
been made a very material question.
Iconfess that I do not know Of an
article that has received tariff protec-
ton for series of years that 1t is not
now sold for much less price than it
was before it was protected In the
general reduction of the prices of manu-
featured goods the large amount Of the
American products and the great num-
Der Of useful inventions to which Amer
lean genius has given birth are the
potent factors of large reductions
throughout the world.
The charge, if true, would prove either
that the manufacturers do not require
the protection they have, or that on &C.
count of combination among them
they sold their goods in the domestic
market at the enormous profits indicated
by the large discounts to the foreign
trade; for it is fair to assume that only
facturer finds on his hands a surplus that
he cannot dispose of at remunerative
rates, or through bankruptcy. goods are
forced upon the market would they be
sold abroad except at profit and /
concede that the charges made, IL true.
were as trenchant against many customs
rates now existing as they are vicious
and even criminal. In debate, Senators
upon the other side have lowered
around and concentrated their forces
around this point to launch their elo-
quent vituperations against the tariff
question more than any other.
It is remarkable fact, in this conuec-
ton, that in many individual instances
manufacturers charged with this great
crime against American consumers-for
IL the charges were true 1t is a crime
have written to newspapers and gentle
men making charges explaining their
methods of business and refuting the
charges, and in no instance that can
recall have the writer's received the
benefit of their denials, but on the con-
trary they seem to call forth louder and
more constant and specific assertions Of
their truth. I confess to surprise that
Senators who should discuss this great
economic question, basing their argu-
ments upon facts and the logic of facts,
have consented, as it seems to me, to
descend to gross misstatements and to
honorable men in their
efforts to excite prejudice and hostility
to great economic policy. In this dis
cussion, sir, we can not be too careful
either side-in guarding against calling
to our aid in support OF our theories any
matter that will not stand the highest
crucial test in respect to its verify. L
sir, have nothing but commiseration
for party leader in this debate who
finds it necessary to supply his constit-
uency with erroneous or incomplete
statements to hold them in party lines
upon this great issue that now divides
the two great political organizations
SENATOR PADDOCK, OF NEBRASKA.
Protective tariffs do not operate in
foreign countries to Cypress the farmer,
and yet he has greatly suffered and
many have been ruined, while our farm
ers throughout the West have at least
prospered, 1t is. therefore.
the widest vaporing for our Democratic
friends to charge this worldwide de-
preston in agriculture to the American
tariff. 1t is quite as absurd to constant
ly ring the changes upon the alleged
burning of corn in the newer States on
Of poverty from high tariffs
Why, Mr.. President there has never
been any general burning of corn in my
State because of poverty. Convenience
and choice have been the incentive in
the vast majority of instances This
story originated in the hard experiences
Of frontier settlers during some of the
severe storms which occasionally pre-
rail in that section in winter, when the
railroads and wagon roads are obstruct-
ID and the cold SO severe that 1t is i'm
possible to move a rod in any direction,
even without wagon. At such times
,orn, which makes the quickest and
hottest of fires is the richest blessing