The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-05
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.

1
They Are the Best and Cheapest and Are
Competing in Foreign Markets with the
Goods of All Nations.
1t is questionable whether free trad
ers themselves really believe half what
they write about the tariff being added
to the price of the domestic product
There can be noquestion that the prices
of some manufactured articles are high
er, but that this holds true of all do
nestle products upon which there is a
duty is not true. The French Commits
sioner to the Centennial Exhibition in
1876, upon his return to France, reported
that "a veritable economical revolution
has taken place in the United States.
Under the shelter of prohibition sys-
tenn they have organized a powerful in
dustry which rivals England in cheap
ness"
Owing to lack of regular and direct
means of communication and transporta-
ton, American goods have not obtained
the place in foreign markets which their
quality and cheapness have deserved
Still, in spite of all disadvantages,
hundreds of articles are successfully
competing in the foreign markets with
the goods of all nations While Amer
lean free traders are writhing in parox-
ysms of grief over the outrageous prices
at which farmers are compelled to buy
theiragricultural implements. carriages,
hardware, tools, etc, the foreign manu-
facturers are watching with amazement
the ever increasing stream of
these articles which is flowing
into the foreign markets, and by
their cheapness and superior quality
driving out the products Of England,
Germany and France An indication of
the uneasiness which English manufact-
urers feel is given in the London Iron
and Steel Trades Journal of July 5,
when it tells its readers "to remember
that the United States are not likely to
increase their purchases from us, but
rather the reverse. Their home re-
sources of raw material have been won
derfully developed during the last few
years, SO much so that we now find their
manufacturers exporting largely to
Canada, Mexico and Central America,
besides feeling their way toward South
America" "
The United States is just waking up
to the fact that its manufactured prod
ucts are the best in the world, and in
the main, quality considered, as cheap
as the products of any other country.
With the establishments of direct Ameri-
can lines of steamers, which will I'M
doubleday follow the passage of the now
pending Tonnage and Subsidy bills,
there can be no doubt that American
goods will at once win the place in for
eign markets which they deserve. The
following significant item lately ap-
peared in the Age of Steel:
Some millions of dollars worth of Ameri-
can goods have been purchased for tranport-
alton to Buenos Ayres. The purchase and
enterprise is backed by q syndicate. 1t has
taken three months to select the stock and
some seventy of the leading firms In the
United States have been directly dealt with
In this colossal investment. The purchase
includes goods of all kinds-wagons, car
riages. machinery, furniture, fire arms, cut
iery, sewing machines and all kinds OF man.
ufactured goods. These will be placed in an
exhibition building, where the best display
possible will be made, combining the at
State. A system of long credit Is to be
adopted, and this, with liberal discount for
cash, will, 1t Is proposed, put the American
merchant in fair way of underselling his
European competitor