, 1890-07-10
FOREIGNERS FAVORED.
THE SANCTITY THAT HANGS ABOUT
THE FOREIGN TRADE.

The farmers of this country have been
for a long time physicked with such
stuff as this:
Protection is for our special benefit,
because it creates a large manufacturing
class, which affords you a home market
for your products Your foreign market
is uncertain and unreliable and is very
far away. Sell at home and buy at
hc<ne; and thus you save freight two
ways The home market is your saliva
ton; depend upon it alone and you shall
be saved"
And Mr.. Robert P. Porter, our census
taker in this year of grace, addresses the
following oily words to them: Unless
| am very much mistaken the American
farmer has altogether too much hay out
himself not to be clever to his neighbor
the manufacturer in the matter of ex-
changing courtesies."
Now, does this American farmer know
how this matter Of exchanging courte-
sizes" works in actual practice? Does he
know that these home market manu-
f%acturers sell in the foreign market
cheaper thar to him? Such is the fact.
The manufacturers Of many protected
articles have n price for the home
market n another price, which is from
10 to 80 per cent. lower, for the foreign
market.
Does the farmer doubt this statement
o he ask why he never heard Of such
a thing before?
For a very good reason. The fact is
kept secret 80 far a. possible. 1t is
known by all the exporting merchants
Of our seaports.
But why does not the farmer know
this2 In New York two trade papers
are regularly published which give lists
Of articles with the home market prices
and the foreign prices side by side.
These papers are The Australasian and
South American and The American Mail
and Export Journal, and are for ~circula-
ton in foreign countries alone.
Farmer Brown, do you want to see
one of those papers2
Very well; walk up to the editors
desk and ask him for a copy-or even
offer him money for n coP-and what
does that editor tell you?
"Oh, no, Farmer Brown; you cannot
buy a copy Of this paperi"
But whyY' you ask. And here the
editor will eye you sharply to see whether
you n be trusted with a secret. yes"
he seems to say, Farmer Brown is a
trusty man; he will not give it away"
And he leans owe toward you and
says in confidential tones;
You see, Farmer Brown, the reason
we cannot sell our paper hero is that the
retail prices quoted for export are con
siderably lower than large dealers must
pay for the same articles here at whole
sale"
Now, a Farmer Brown will never get
a peep into one of these journals, he
shall. at least, know something of their
contents. But first he shall have fur
Their proof of this pudding by hearing
what several other journals have to say
on this subject.
Let him hear what that dyed-in-the-
wool protectionist organ The New York
Press has to say:
at Is sometimes looked upon rs wise
to ship goods out of the country at cost
rather than break the regular price for
which such articles sell in the country in
which they arc produced"
And The American Machinist says
this:
Just why American manufacturers
will sell machinery and other goods from
10 to 80 per cent. cheaper in Europe than
they will sell them to be used at home is
rather pulling; but anyone curious in
the matter can easily enough find out
that many Of them do this. 1t may be
necessary to cut prices TO secure trade
from abroad. but it is likely to strike
the American purchaser as being a little
rough on him"
The Engineering and Mining Journal,
although a protectionist paper, expresses
itself in this fashion: SO BOOB as an in
dustry has attained the position where
it can more than supply our home mar
ket and has to SEND its goods abroad,
where they compete with those of for
eign manufacturers, 1t Is evident that
they are either giving the foreigners the
benefit OF lower rates thar they do our
own people, or that they are able to get
along at home without any protection
from foreign manufacturers. 1t is not
fair that our people should be made to
pay more than foreigners for the prod
ucts of our own land
Tine Reform club, of New York, has
taken this matter up with a view to put
ting the exact facts before the people.
The results of its Investigations have
been published in a small pamphlet,
which can be had by applying to its
mailing office, No. % William street,
New York. This pamphlet is called PRO
t~ection's Home Market" The figures
in it have been in every case obtained
from the manufacturers themselves, and
In most instances are based upon a COM
parison of three documents-the regular
price lists, the domestic discount sheet"
to the trade, and the export discount
sheet" as furnished by each manufact-
urer.
Now let Farmer Brown give a little
study to some Of the figures from this
pamphlet, and he will see "how protec-
ton protects" Let him turn his atten-
ton first to his agricultural implements,
rejecting that the manufacturers of these
are protected by a duty of 40 per cent
ad valorem.
In Home To For
Market eigners
Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and
ploN $500. I'll " - 70
An steel horse hoe and oultiva-
tor, with wheel. ......... 90 70
All steel, plain culttvator. with
4b
HoRsx RAKEs. rEDpEzs AND POTATO DIod Eas.
In Home 10 For
Market elgners
Lock lever hay aks-.... SIS 90 Si4 81