Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-11-07
pROGRESSIN THE DEBATE
EXPORT DISCOUNTS WORRY THE
REPUBLICAN SENATORS.

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urers Sell to Foreigners More Cheaply
Than in the Home Market, and Repub-
licans Feel the Force of the Blow.
The Democratic senators have made
frequent and telling use of the facts
about export discounts during the dis
cussion of the Mckinley bill in the SEN
ate. The conclusive proofs that have
been given that many manufacturers are
selling their goods at much lower prices
to foreigners than in the protected home
market have given no little annoyance
to the Republican senators. Senator
Vest has made such telling use of the
Spanish edition of The New York Mail
and Export Journal, which was procured
from Buenos Ayres, that Senator Allison
has tried to put the whole matter aside
with little ridicule.
When the hardware sections of the
bill were under discussion Senator Car
Isle made very effective speech in
which he thoroughly exposed the falsity
Of the claims often made before the ways
and means committee by men who pre-
tend to be on the verge of ruin and yet
sell their wares to foreigners at greatly
reduced rates. The firm selected by
Mr.. Carlisle as AZ example of this prac-
tice was that of Landers, Frary G. Clark
Of New Britain, Conn Mr.. Carlisle
stated that Mr.. Charles S. Landers, the
leading member of this firm, came be-
fore the ways and means committee to
ask for increased duties. The senator
read extracts from the testimony of this
manufacturer showing what gloomy talk
he then INDUCED in.
Before the committee Mr.. Landers had
said: II am manufacturer of table cut
lery at New Britain, Conn, and repre-
sent before this committee what is left
of that industry in the United States -
Another morsel from the testimony of
Mr.. Landers was this: GAS stated here
last night by Col. Bradley in this Solin-
gen district the Germans manufacture
very cheaply, and unless we are protect
ed they will drive us out" To which
he added: ''We have got to have this
protection have given the facts, and
do not propose to argue the question"
The present protective duty which
these men have is IS per cent ad valo-
rem, but their tale of woe induced Maj.
Mckinley to raise the duty to an aver
age figure of 55 per cent. In other
words, whoever buys dollars worth of
table cutlery now pays for it, not 81,
but $1.35. Not content with this in
crease Maj. Mckinley proposes to make
us pay $1.55.
Mr.. Landers' tale of woe, however, was
thoroughly exposed by Mr.. Carlisle, and
it's fraudulent character established be-
You'd doubt. The senator read a news
paragraph from a trade journal, The
Hardware, as follows: "Landers, Frary
& Co. are now kept very busy supplying
their western consumers with their su-
peru cutlery. They were compelled dur
ing the spring to employ about two hun
dred new hands to be able to keep up
with the demand for their well famed
goods"
And it was just this man who said he
would have to go out Of business unless
he got higher protection!
But Senator Carlisle added still
more crushing blow to the foregoing.
Holding up sheet Of paper he said: 81
hold in my hands bill, and call the
attention of the senator from Rhode
Island (Nlr. Aldrich) to this sentence,
conspicuously printed in red ink upon
the face of it. This is bill of goods
sold by these same parties:
"'For immediate cash, with an agree
81 i. IL
the goods shall not be sold in the United
States. Custom house certificate to be
furnished if required
$50 that they sell these goods for ex-
portation," Mr.. Carlisle continued, sat
a lower price than they sell them to
| American citizens for home consump-
ton, and compel their purchaser to en-
ter into a stipulation, spread out con-
spicuously upon the face of the receipt
which he gets for the money paid for
the goods, that he will not sell them in
the United States, and if these manu-
facturers require it that he shall produce
to them the certificate of the custom
house to show that he has exported them
for sale abroad"
| Mr. Carlisle took up also the case Of
the Northampton (Mass.) Cutlery com.
pany, exhibiting a bill of cutlery sold by
| them in the home market and reading
from the export price list published by
the same firm in its own name, and he
showed from these two authoritative
sources that the company sells abroad at
prices ranging from "a to 20 per cent.
lower than in the protected home mar.
lzet. Reading from this bill of goods
actually sold by the company in the
home market he showed that the price
of table knives (No. 877) is 1926 pei
gross, and from the foreign price list he
read that the price is $3.50. The two
other styles Of knives in this bill and the
corresponding foreign prices are: No
6S5 at $11.5O here and So. 80 abroad; No
685 c at $3.50 here and $40 abroad.
In view Of these facts Mr.. Carlisle
undertook to refresh the memory O.
Senator Allison in reference to a promise
| which the latter had made: 81 think The
senator from Iowa, if he will examine
these papers, will find that we have
| reached point in this discussion wher,
he, according to his pledge made tn,
other day, will be compelled to halt, fo
as l understood that senator his state
ment was substantially that. if evidence
could be produced to show in any cast
that American manufacturers were act
ually selling their goods abroad for les
than they were selling them here at home
he thought the duties might very wei
be reduced, or at least that he would no
vote to increase them"
But Senator Allison, so far as appears
did not keep his promise, and only few
days later he was ridiculing Senator Yes
for using his Buenos Ayres paper SO FIRE
quently. Another Of the Republican
senators thought it was all right tina
our manufacturers should sell at lowe,
price in the foreign market, but Ameri
can consumers will agree that it is rather
12hard on them to be made to pay for pro
/ lection and then to be robbed Of its ben
/ efts.
f. Presence of Mind
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regiment, Germany, was riding with tn,
troops in the neighborhood of Merseburg