The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-26
THE TARIFF VS.. PRICES.

4 CORRESPONDENT asks US to
n explain why it is The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER has not explained to the
farmers the injustice of the tariff laws,
by the aid Of which our protected
manufacturers sell to foreigners at
from 80 to SO per cent. lower than to
US. Certainly The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER has always been out spoken
on the tariff question. Nearly every
week it either has something original
or contains clippings bearing directly
upon the question of tariff reform.
In regard to a difference in prices
to home and foreign buyers, the F,rm-
ers' Call, published at Quincy, ILL.,, and
the New York World have had a con.
troyersy quite recently respecting
farm machinery, etc. The World
says:
The Farmers Cal, published at
Quincy, ILL.,, sent a circular to a large
mum Der of manufacturers of agricul-
tural nipple nents, asking each one if
his price abroad was greater than his
price at home, the editor forgetting
that in 1.-the price abroad" was in
Guided the FREIGHT and FOREIGN DUTY"
The majority of those replying take
advantage Of this blunder of the editor
to send a similar reply to that of the
Johnston Harvester Co., Batavia,
New York:
Harvesting machinery is sold in foreign
countries at as high or higher prices thar
in the United States for the same class Of
machine.
Yes. But it is sold here in New
York o EXPORT at a discount rang
ing from 25 TO As per cent, as the
foreign ad vertisements printed in The
World Of May oath and June 18th
proved. Turn to those issues and you
will find the advertisement, published
in foreign countries only, offering the
foreign retail buyer:
l. The Chieftain lock lever hay rake
andhay-tedder and the Golden Farmer
self dumping hay-rake at 40 per cent.
discount free on board here in New
York.
2. The s. K. Nye rake at % per
cent. discount.
3. The Ann Arbor hay tedder at
$50 meta reduction to tie foreigner
of SIS.
4. The Ann Arbor mower at $40
net-a reduction to the foreigner of
$25.
5. The Ann Arbor horse lake at
$l7--a reduction to the foreigner of
So.
6. The Fremont Ccmpany's Stable
horse cUltivator at $25 and SIS to the
foreigner.
These are the advertisements pub
lished and circulated in f"reign III
tries to attract foreign retail buyers,
and they cannot be open to any sus
picion or doubt. Any man may read
them and form his own opinions free
from any assertion. made by any one,
except those engaged in selling these
goods. They say themselves that
they sell at these prices to the foreign
retail buyer.
Is it necessary that every one of
the thousand foreign advertisements
should be- republished before the
reader will believe /.
Will the reader be deceiYed by the
trick OF pat'ing forward SOM one
nipple nents do not ha39en to
be mentioned to deny the actual facts
advertised by the others {?
Even to Canada the freight is high,
and when the Canadian buyer pays
that and the duty of 35 per cent. i'm
posed at the Canadian custom house
On his horse rake or tedder, bought in
New York at a special discount for
export only of 40 per cent, it will cost
him as much, if not more, than it
would cost the American farmer. lis
special discounts do not more than
if they quite-cover the foreign duty
ond froiObt