Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-09

ul-. 10 per cent Nom Standard Association
Prices made where ~ handles, etc, are re
quired
Every farmer knows the price he has
90 pay for these implements Here is
the advertisement, % sell at rctdil, free
on board, az NCC York, at discounts
ranging from 80 TO 20 per cent. from the
list price-which is lower than the deal
er la them can buy, while the farmer
must pay the list price. To the foreign
or the protected mill-Owner sells q seed
drill for $3.50; a combined drill, rake
and plough for $3.50; a Firely wheel
hoe aud plough for $3.50: a hand-plough
for Sl.75. The foreigner buys an One
onta Clipper plough for $3.50, but no
American may.
For the Chieftais hay-tedder the
American paws $50, the foreigner pays
S35.4O. and ia like proportion for all
like things.
On plOughs Of all kinds the discount
90 the foreign buyer IS 80 per ceRt.
CA the Nye Improved rake the dis
count 90 the foreign buyer is % per
cent.
ON an other hay-rakes. hay-tedders
aud potato-diggerS. 30 per cent.
On garden rakcS the discount to the
foreign buyers is 20 and D.
ON caSt-steel garden rakeS il is 20 per
cent.
aud So on. These advertisements con-
t.uucS in this one paper for forty-two
columns.
Every protected industry in the
United States which four weeks ago
was besieging the Committee on Ways
and Means for more protection than
it now has, is advertising 20 sell abroad,
Gf retail. cheaper than 10 will sell at
home. plolc~tle Its protection" is
protection 90 charge the American
consumer o higher price than it charges
che foreign consumer.
All the deuialS the paid advocates Of
the protected mill-OwnerS may utter
will not avail against the simple for
eigu advertisements of the mill-ownerS
themselves. 10 is not question Of
taking any mans word. Each voter
can easily prove 10 for himself by send
ing twenty-five cents 90 the Engineering
mf Mining Journal and asking for the
export supplement. or by having "a
friend in some foreign country send him
the foreign advertisements OF these
protected mnl-OwnerS The former Is
the easier and quite As convincing.
There are forty-twO wide columns OF
t.is reading boo each issue, which should
b. interesting II not Important 20 the
Republican farmers who have voted
steadily for twenty-five years in favor OF
protecting" these manufacturers in
charging from 10 90 20 per cent more 20
-heir countrymen than they charged
to foreigners.
To get at the exact facts, the Tariff
Reform Committee Of the Reform Club
of New York began last Autumn To
gather from the protected firms their
domestic discount sheets. BY CORES
pondeucc from foreign countries,
through foreign merchants. the for
f cirn discount sheets were obtained. al
+ though iu some eases they were fur
nishod directly aud with the do
mcsuc discounts sender being
comment. The work of COM
piling and collatiug was In
trusted to Mr.. !. Alexander LindquiSt,
N
.painstaking and careful of tariff writers
and he has now ON file. tabulated and ar
ranged. many thousand of these dis
count sheets. covering every branch o
protected manufactures and showing
that in every industry the mill-ownel
can and does and is only too glad t'
compete iu the foreign market, wher'
he is not protected" with the foreign
mill-owner.
Omittng the Illustrations, here is d
summary 0f his report of the home and
foreign prices charged by the protected
firms engaged In some OF the protected
metal manufactures. In every case the
foreign price" is RETAIL, for single
article lor PACKAGE, free on board in
New York City, while the domestic
prices is for large wholesale lots nc fac
tory, freight or express TO bee paid by
the buyer:
I CULTIvAToR~-r PROTECTED - PER CENT.
Prirs in Price 10
home market. foreigners