The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-06-13
War on the Tariff.
W dI Uu U11U N-0A 1As
What the Tariff does for our Agriculturists

wholesale price for home trade and a re
tail price for foreign trade. The 'situa.
tion is summed up by one of them who
writes:
sour prices 10 the domestic trade aver
age about 10 per cent more than to the
export trade. We box and deliver ia
New York all our export goods. Domes'
tic goods are quoted on cars here"
Another one says very frankly: "Our
discounts to the home trade are for
wholesale purchases. Our discounts to
foreign trade are for retail purchases.
We sell single machines at retail to for
eign purchaser 10 per cent less than our
wholesale rates to the domestic buyer.
Nearly all our protected manufacturers
advertise in foreign newspapers, and from
their advertisements it can be seen that
the foregoing statements are very con-
servative They sell abroad retail at 25
to 40 per cent discount on the Wholesale
prices charged in this country.
Two papers are published in New York
City for circulation in foreign countries
only. 1t is very difficult to get copies,
but not impossible, and whoever will take
the trouble to write to either one for a
copy will be told frankly that the reason
why they are not sold in this country is
"because the retail prices quoted for ex-
port are considerably lower than large
dealers must pay for the same articles
here at wholesale" T. ase are the exact
words which the editor of one of them
used. T.
Tho Australiasiau and South American
publishes the advertisements of our pro-
tected manufacturers and the "prces cur
rent" for Australia.
The American Mail and Export Journal
publishes the foreign price list in a sepa-
rate supplement, which can only be OBJ
tanned from foreign country, 80 carefully
is it guarded.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
publishes an American edition and an
"Export Supplement" which is not sold
in this country, but which can be OBJ
tanned by any person writing for it.
Every farmer knows the price he has
to pay for these implements. Here is the
advertisement, to sell at retail, free on
| board, at New York, at discounts ranging
from 80 to 20 per cent from the list price,
which is lower than the dealer in them
can buy, while the farmer must pay the
list price. To the foreigner the protected
mill owner sells seed drill for $500; a
com bined drill, rake and plough for SO. 80;
Firely wheelhoe aud plough for $3.50;
hand plough Tor $l.75. The foreigner
buys an Oneonta Clipper plough for
80, but no American may.
For the Chieftain hsy-tedder the Amer-
can pays $50, the foreigner pays $35.4O,
and in like proportion for all like things
On ploughs of all kinds the discount to
foreign buyer is 80 per cent.
On the Nye Improved rake the dis
count Of the foreign buyer is 25 per cent.
On all other horse-rakes, hay -tedders
and potato diggers, 40 per cent.
On garden rakes the discount to the
foreign buyers is 10 and 5.
On cast-steel garden rakes it is 70 per
cent.
And so Oh. These advertisements con-
tinue in this one paper for fortytwo col
umns.
Every protected industry in the Uni
ted States which four weeks ago was be-
siegiug the Committee on Ways and
Means for more "protection" than it now
has, is advertising abroad, at retail,
cheaper than it will sell at home whole
sale. Its "protection" is "protection to
charge the American consumer higher
price than 1t charges the foreign con-
sumer."
All the denials the paid advocates of
the protected mill-owners may utter will
not avail against the simple foreign ad- |
vertisements of the mill-owners them.
selves. 1t ls not question 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 Tor the export supplement, or
by having friend n some foreign coun-
try send him the foreign advertisements
Of these protected mill-owners. The for |
mer Is the easier and quite as convincing. |
There are forty-two wide columns of |
this readingin each issue, which should |
be interesting if not important to the Re-
publican farmers who have voted steadily |
for twenty five years in favor of pro-
tecting these manufacturers in charging
from 10 to 20 per cent more TO their coun-
trymen than they charged to foreigners.
To get at the exact facts, the Tariff
Reform Com mittee OF the Reform Club of
New York, began last Autumn to gather
from the protected firms their domestic
discount sheets. By correspondence from
foreign countries, through foreign mer-
chants, the foreign discount sheets were
obtained, although in some cases they
were furnished directly and with the dis
oounts-the sender being cynically indif-
terent to any comment. The work of
and colating was intrusted to
Mr. J. Alexander, Lindquist, of Cornell
University, one OF the most painstaking
and careful of tariff writer's, and be has
now on file, tabulated and arranged, many
thousands of these discount sheets, COW
ering every branch of protected manu-
iactures and showing that in every in
dustry the mill-owner can and does and
is only too glad to compete in the foreign
market, where he is not protected" with
the foreign mill-owner.
Omitting the illustrations, here is
summary of his report OF the home and
foreign prices charged by the protected
irms engaged In some of the protected
metal manufactures. In every case the
foreign price" is retail, for a single arti,
sle Tor psckage) free on board in New
ork city, while the domestic price is for
args wholesale lots at factory, freight or {
express to be paid by the buyer.
JULTIVAToRs-PRoTECTE Is PER CENT,
Price in home Price to FOR
market. tigners.
Wheel hoe, cultivator,
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