The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-23
HOW FARMERS ARE ROBBED.
fKoTECTED MILLS SELL CHEAP
ER TO FOREIGNERS THAN
TO AMERICANS.

10 AMERICANS.
Sermon on How the American Far.
mer is 'PrOtected" That Needs no
Words to Point the Moral.
The oppression of the farmers through
tariff taxation have often been depicted
The best illustration of that oppression
Is tie actual condition of the farmers
who, Ia every section, have been forced
year by year to cover their farms with |
mortgages until now, in some States,
the mortgages exceed the value of the
farms. Bat striking and saddening as
is this exposition of the iniquity of the |
tariff tax, there is one that will strike |
the mind as clear and undoubted evil
dence that the depression of the agrcul-
tural interests comes from the tariff |
Indeed this new evidence is States evi-
dence and convicts and confounds every
Protectionist.
There is paper called the "Ameri-
can Mail aud Export Journal" which
publishes several editions. One circu-
lates in the United States the others
circulate abroad The foreign edition
contains foreign price list" to which
the foreign reader of the advertisement
is referred. The ''foreign price list is
kept sacredly from all American eyes,
mot copy" says Mr.. T. E. WILSON,
an able and popular writer upon economic
questions, "can be had in this country
at any price" But at length a copy of
this sacred 'foreign price list" has been
obtained. Mr.. j. ALEXANDER LINDQUIST,
of Cornell University, the Tariff Reform
Clubs expert, has been trying three
months to obtain copy, and just sue
courtesy of a Spanish firm, in obtaining
the Spanish supplement" for April. 1t
is headed in large type: ILLUSTRATED
Current Price List Of American Produc
tions and Manufactures for Exporta
ton" 1t contains forty-eight wide col
umns, and in recent copy of the World
Mr. WILSON gives a fac-simile of the
cuts and prices, and by the side prints a
copy of the American advertisement
sent out to American customers.
There is no doubt about it. Protect
ed mills have two selling prices, and
they sell cheaper to foreigners than to
Americans. One of them writes:
"Our prices to the domestic trade
average about 10 per cent. more than
to the export trade. We box and de.
liver in New York all our export goods.
Domestic goods are quoted on cars
here.'
Another one says very frankly:
.sOur discounts to the home trade are
for Wholesale purchases. Our dis.
counts TO foreign trade are for retail
purchases. We sell single machines AT
retail TO the foreign purchaser at IL
per cent. less than our wholesale rates
10 the domestic buyer.'
Nearly all our protected manufactur
ers advertise in foreign newspapers, anC
from their advertisements 1t can be seer
that the foregoing statements are yer,
conservative. They sell abroad retail
at 25 to 40 per cent. discount on tn
Wholesale prices charged in this country
Two papers are published in New Yorl
city for circulation in foreign countrie
only. 1t is very difficult to get copies
but not impossible, and whoever will
take the trouble to write to either on
for copy, will be told frankly that th
reason why they are not sold In TIL
country is "BECAUsE THE RETAIL PRICE
QUOTED FOR EXPORT ARE CONSIDERABLE
LOWER THAN LARGE DEALERS MUST PA
FOR THE SAME ARTICLES HERE AT WHOLE
SALE" These are the exact words Whic
the editor of one Of them used.
The Australasian and South America
publishes the advertisements OF our pre-
tected manufacturers and the ''prlce
current" from Australia.
The American Mail and Export jour
nal publishes the foreign price list III
separate supplement, which can only b
obtained from foreign country, so care
fully it is guarded.
The Engineering and Mining Journt
publishes an American edition and a
export Supplement" which is not sol
in this country, but which can be ol
tanned by any person writing for it.
This ''Spanish supplement- obtaine
by Mr. LINDQUIsT, intended for circul'
tion only in Spanish America, 'giv'
away the whole question OF Protectio
and shows, beyond any olSpute, tnat u
tariff is tax, and in the item OF agl
cultural implements is A TAX ON TIE
FARMERS ONLY. Mr.. WILSON gives tt
following parallel columns which sno
the difference in price OF THE SAME A
TlCLE to American and foreign purcha
els. These agricultural implements a
made in America-their manufacture
protected by heavy tariff tax, ana J
the American farmer has to pay near
double for the implements. The follo'
lug is the showing:
Spanish Americs
price price.
Advance plough. 5000 SlS't
Advance plough. 4'OO %,
Hay tedder. ..oO'OO -.
Mower 1000 G5.(
uorse ,oLa l7.OO 25.(
Cumming feed cutter. oo oo
No. 3D.. ..OO'OO -
Ann Arbor cutter No 2. 2S.OO a0''' a0''
Ann Arbor cutter, No 1.lO.OO 20, 60,
Clipper cutter. ......... S'3v g.
Lever cutter. ........... I'SC 90
Cultivator. ........ .x|.OO 90
Sweep. ..................o .oO'VV "o'
These advertisements all offer TO Sc