Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-05-15
squeez,nr ,hs raoms llarsr.

Squeezing the nome k8uyer.
$50 soon ~ an industry has attained
the position where it can more than sup-
ply cur home market and has TO send its
goods abroad, whore they compete with
those OF foreign manufacturers, it is evil
dent that they IRE either giving the for.
eigners the benefit OF lower rates than
they do our own people, or thst they are
able to get slopg at home without any
protection from foreign manufacturers.
1t is not fair that COR own people shoald
be asds TO pay more than foreigners for
the products Of our own land"
The foregoing IL an extract from thu
BSqineaTng and Mining journal Cpro-
tectionist) of March 18th, 1890. Another
unimpeaehsbIe trade authority is the
American 8rciinfs.. which, in its Issue
OF September 26th, 1859, said
dust why American manufacturers
will sell machinery and other goods from
10 to 80 per cent cheaper in Europe than
they will SSH them to he used at hons is
rather puzzling but any one curious in
the matter can easily find out that many
of them do this. 1t may be necessary to
cut prices in order to secure trade from
abroad, but it is likely TO strike the
American purchaser as being little
rough on him"
During the calendar year 1859 the 8
were exported from the United States
agricultural machinery and implements
to the value Of "a, 246 ,O76 and hardware
TO the value OF S6, 24G, 800 These arti-
Giles were made in American workshops,
by American labor, and sent abroad to be
sold in free trade markets 10 competition
with tho product Of the ''pauper labor"
OF Europe. OF the agricultural ma
chiuery which it has been demonstrated
We can thus manufacture without any
protection, and sell abroad there were
Movers and reapers, and parts thereof,
81 3J2, 296 plows and culdyRtors, and
parts thereof, @956,5i5, horse powers,
$lt,OlO. Were they placed upon an
/ eqaai footing with their foreign oon-
pstiIcrs by having all their raw materials
made free our manufacturers cOuid do
very much larger export trade; siucs it
IL recognized fact Rm ing all those
engaged IA thus trade that Il is last thoI4
Articles Of whose cost the laoJs item
makes up she largest proportion that can
be exported 70. profitable sale abroad
and, Oh the other hand, that it is jdst
those OF whose cost tbs item OF raw ma
terials - the largest that We cannot SSH
abroad in competition with foreigners.
Il other wards labor, msasured by It's
efficiency, is cheaper ana raw materials
are deaFer III this Uaitsi States than else
where in this world
We imagine that it is self-evident to
any comprehension that in lines in which
we can snd do manuisctuee for sale in
free trade markets there can be only one
object Of "P.otective" tariff and that
ia TO squeszs tine home consumer. How
he is being squeezed will saftiel ently up
pear from an inspection OF the home and
export quotations for few articles &C.
lectsd from long list which those
"curious in the matter" may fn1 in
l IaTG RJ0rm for April 18th, 1890,
wnich may be obtained by enclosing a
throo-cent stamp to the publication Office,
no, 81 Willis Il street, New York. The
figures have been Obtained in every case
from the manufacturers themselves