The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-04
WAR ON TIE FARMER.
WHAT THE TAS;FF CCE5 FOR OUR
AGRlCULTURISTS


Protected. Mills sell Cheap -, Foreigners
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Protection in RnDbin~ Their Gwn yn.m-
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-. Z. wilson IN ;Ec New York Void.
The protected manufacturers OF the
United States have two selling prices
% Wholesale price for home trade
and q retail price for foreign trade.
The situation is summed up by one
of them who wlitcs:
Our prices to the domestic trade
average about 10 per cont. moro than
to the export trade We box and de-
liver in New York ali our export
goods. Domestic goods are quoted
on cars here"
Another one says very frankly:
Our discounts to the homo trade
are for wholesale purchases. Our
discounts to foreign trade are for re-
tail purchases. We sell single ma
chimes at retail to foreign purchaser
10 per cent. less than our wholesale
rates to the domestic buyer.
Nearly all our protected manufac-
truersadvertise in foreignnewspapers,
and from their advertisements it can
be seen that the foregoing statements
are very conservative. They sell
abroad retail at 25 to 40 per cent.
discount on tho wholesale prices
charged in this country.
Two papers are published in New
York city for circulation in foreign
countries only. It is very difficult to
get copies, but not impossible, and
whoever will take the trouble to write
to either one for q copy Will be told
frankly that the reason why they are
not sold in this country is "because
the retail prices quoted for export
are considerably lower than large
dealers must pay for the same articles
here at wholesale" These are the
exact words which the editor Of one
of them used
The Australasian and South Ameri.
can publishes the advertisements Of
our protected manufacturers and the
prices current for Australia.
The American Mail and Export
Journal publishes the foreign price
list in a separate supplement, which
can only be obtained from q foreign
country, so carefully is it guarded.
The Engineering and Mining Jour
nal publishes an American edition
and an export Supplement" which
is not sold in this country, but which
can be obtained by any person writ
ing for il.
Every farmer knows the price he
has to pay for these implements
Here is the advertisement, to sell al
retail, free on board, at New York, Al
discounts ranging from 80 to 70 pei
cent. from the list price, which i:
lower than the dealer in them car
buy, while the farmer must pay The
list price. To the foreigner the pro
tected mill-ownea sells a seed-drill fol
$3.50; a combined drill, rake ant
plough for $3.50; a Frely wheel-hoe
and plough for $3.50; o hand plough
for Sl.75. The foreigner buys al
Oneonta Clipper plough for $3.50
but no American may.
For the Chieftain hay-tedder tht
American pays 500, the foreigne,
pays S35.40, and in like proportion
for all like things
On ploughs Of all kinds the dis
count to the foreign buyer is 80 pc:
cent.
On the Nye Improved rake the dis
count OF the foreign burger is % DO!
cent.
On all other horse-rakes, hay-ted
ders and potato -diggers, 40 per cent
On garden rakes the discount tx
the foreign buyers is 70 and 5.
On cast-steel garden rakes it Is Il
per cent.
And so on. These advertisements
continue in this one paper for forty
two columns.
Every protected industry in the
United States which four weeks ago
was besieging the Committee OF
Ways and Means for more 'protec
ton" than it now has, is advertising
abroad, at retail, cheaper than it vii
sell at home wholesale. It's "protec
ton is "protection to charge the
American consumer higher price
thanit charges the foreign consumer
All the denials the paid advocates
of the protected mill-owners may ut
ter Will not avail against the simple
foreign advertisements of the mill
owners themselves. It is not ques.
ton Of taking any mans word. Each
voter can easily prove it for himself
by sending twenty-five cents to the
Engineering and Mining Journal and
asking for the export supplement, OF
by having a friend in some foreign
country send him the foreign adyer-
tisements OF these protected mill.
owners. The former is the easier and
quite as convincing.
There are forty-two wide columns
of this reading in each issue, which
should be interesting if not import
ant to the Republican farmers who
have voted steadily for twenty-five
years in favor Of 'protecting" these
manufacturers in charging from 10 to
20 per cent more to their country
men than they charged to foreigners.
To get at the exact facts, the Tariff
Reform Committee of the Reform
Club, of New York, began last Au.
tumn to gather from the protected
firms their domestic discount sheets.
By correspondence from foreign
countries, through foreign merchants,
the foreign discount sheets were OBJ
tanned, although in some cases they
were furnished directly and with the
dscounts-the sender being cynically
indifferent to any comment The