Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-09
SCREWS.
Protective Duty cai2c per ID.


One OF the very closest combinations
engaged in any branch of the iron trade
controls the production and price of
wood screws. The manufacturers keep
up prices here at their will, protected
as they are by the high duties. Screws
which cost the home dealer SO
net can be obtained for export for 81. &C,
or one-third less, provided bill of lad
ing is shown the manufacturer to as
sure him that the goods have been
actually exported that consumers here
have not profited by his generosity to
foreign consumers.
The manufacturer of rivetS IS also
controlled by a combination here. and
while it makes the home dealer and
consumer pay high prices, the exporter
and foreign consumer are very favorably
treated. RivetS listed at SO, for in
stance, are sold to the. largest home
dealers for S5.55. but to the exporter,
regardless of quantity, for only $3.50.
On all such goods as screw clamps, saw
viSeS, pulley hooks, jack screws, barn
door hangers and other hardware Speci-
altieS OF similar description, which cost
the large home dealers net price of $40,
for instance, the exporter gets dis
count OF at least 10 per cent, and conSe-
quently pays only 80.
Homs To for
mdrtef eiqaers.
posi-hole diprer>. per doz . SO % Sl2 S3
Tree protectors. p.r doz........ go 500
CARTRIDGES PROTECTED BY IL PER
CENT.
Cartridges which are sold to the
American dealer for say $40 can be
bought for export at a discount of nearly
30 per cent, or for about -.
In the manufacture of cartridges as
in other things, strong combinations are
in control and protected by the duty,
and the sheet Copper Trust" can
charge the American consumer such
prices rs the manufacturers choose 10
exact.
LATmEs. DRILLS AND SAWS. - PER CENT
Home RQrkf 10 Foreigners.
Circular saws. .-.. ... 80 ~ -, -
Scroll Saw. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~ q -
Similar favorable prices are given TO
the export trade on other iron and wood
working machinery. Some manufac-
turerS give even better prices than the
above to the export trade. American
made latheS for iron working are used
all through England, and there are
houses in England which deal eXclu-
Sively in American made wood and iron
working machines.
/ TYPEwRITERS, PROTECTED - PER CENT.
A typewriter which costs in this conn
try, 500, or, If the buyer has already
purchased three. 500 for each additional
one he may buy. can be bought for eX
port for $50.
But space is worth something, and 1t
is idle to print more. For every item
here quoted, or that remains to be
quoted, the price-liStS are on file, and
these prices to American and foreign
consumers are the prices certified as cor
rect orcr the signatures Of the protected
firms charging them.
There is no guess work in the fore
going figures. They cannot be i'm
peached by any Republican editor or
advocate of the continuance of Protec-
ton who has any character TO lose.
To the blind, the deaf and the idiotic,
who cannot or will not look or listen,
these figures will have no meaning, but
TO the men of sense, who have not sur
rendered themselves into party slavery,
they will have much. They can no
longer believe the liars who are hired by
the mill-ownerS to tell them that
| they need this "prOtection and must
have it or they must close their mills.
The mill-ownerS, banded together TO
rob their countrymen, have bought from
Congress legal "protectiOn to rob their
countrvmen" and have hired the Repub-
| lican leaders and the Republican news
papers to throw dust in the eyes of the
farmers who compete with them. Inc
mill owners pour out money like water
10 buy Republican elections, and when
they fail to respond with enough the
fat is fried out Of them" To get still
more OF that money for the election OF
1890 and 1892 the farmers OF this coun-
try are to be absolutely deSpoiled OF
their foreign exchange market. Their
crops are to be limited to what we
can consume in this country. The
farm surplus must rot or be
burned-for no farmer shall be
permitted to exchange what he can
not use and what his country cannot
use for something they both need, the
Republican party leaders and newSpa-
perS unite in declaring. Ii the farmers
over-produce, they add, then they
are criminals and they deserve
the misfortune that comes from
il. Only mill-owner may law
fully ovcr-producc and sell abroad,
and to help him we will make the farm
er pay enough taxes into the Federal
Treasury to enable the mill-owner to
have free transportation to foreign coun-
tries for the goods he now sells cheaper
TO foreigners than to his own country
-, Pr tho farmer shall not export.