, 1890-07-02
FOREIGNERS FAVORED,
THE sANcTlTY THAT HANGS ABOUT
THE FOREIGN TRADE.

How Our Protected Manufacturer Sell
Cheaper Abroad Than at Home-SuEhty
Interesting Figures for Farmer Brown
and His wife-whst Shall Brown Striker
The farmers of this country nave been
for r long time physicked with such
stuff as this:
Protection is for your special benefit,
because it creates a large manufacturing
class, which affords you a home market
for your products Your foreign market
is uncertain and unreliable and is very
far away. Sell at home and buy at
home; and hui you save freight W
ways The home market is your saliva
tou; depend upon it alone and you shall
be saved
And Mr.. Robert P. Porter. our census
taker in this year of grace, addresses the
following oily words TO them: Unless
/ am very much mistaken the American
farmer has altogether too much hay out
himself not TO be clever to his neighbor
the manufacturer in the matter Of eK-
changing courtesies."
Now, does this American farmer know
how this matter of exchanging courte-
sizes" works in actual practice2 Does he
know that these home market manu-
f~acturers sell in the foreign market
cheaper than to him? Such is the fact.
The manufacturers of many protected
articles have one price for the home
market and another price, which is from
10 to 30 per cent. lower. for the foreign
market.
Does the farmer doubt this statement?
Does he ask why he never heard Of such
a thing before?
For a very good reason The fact Is
kept secret so far as possible. 1t Is
known by all the exporting merchants
OF our seaports.
But why does not the farmer know
this? In New York two trade papers
are regularly published which give lists
Of articles with the home market prices
and the foreign prices side by side.
These papers are The A~ustralAsian and
South American and The American Mail
and Export Journal, and are for circula-
ton in foreign countries alone.
Farmer Brown, do you want 10 see
one of those papersl
Very well; walk up to the editors
desk and ask him for a copy-or even
offer him money for a copy-and what
does that editor tell your
'Oh. no. Farmer Brown; you cannot
buy n copS of this paperl'
But whyY' you ask. And here the
editor will eye you sharply to see whether
you can be trusted with n secret. Yes"
he seems TO say, Farmer Brown Is q
trusty man; he will not give 1t away"
And he leans over toward You and
says in confidential tones
"You see. Farmer Brown, the reason
we cannot sell our paper here is that the
retail prices quoted for export are con-
Ederably lower thar large dealers must
pay for the same articles here at whole
sale"
Now, as Farmer Brown will never get
. peep into M Of these journals, he
shall. at least, know something Of their
contents. But first he shall nave fur
Their proof OF this pudding by hearing
what several other journals have to say
on this subject.
Let him neal what that dyed-inthe-
wool protectionist organ The New York
Press has to say;
1T is sometimes looked upon as wise
to ship goods out of the country at cost
rather than break the regular price for
which such articles sell in the countryin
which they are produced"
And The American Machinist says
this;
Just why American manufacturers
will sell machinery and other goods from
10 to 30 per cent. cheaper in Europe than
they will sell them to be used at home is
rather puzzling; but anyone curious In
&hx .-.t%~r -,- ...,1,r ~n1.uA E-l A.N
that many Of them do this. Il may be
necessary to cut prices to secur trade
from abroad, but it is likely TO strike
the American purchaser as being a little
rough on him"
The Engineering and Mining Journal,
although n protectionist paper, expresses
-4uef in this fashion: Sosoua rs an in
dustry has attained the position where
1t a more than supply our home mar
ket and has to send its goods abroad,
where they compete with those Of for
eign manufacturers, 1t Is evident that
they are either giving the foreigners the
benefit Of lower rates h they do our
own people. or that they are able TO get
along at home without any protection
from foreign manufacturers 1t is not
fair that our people should be made to
pay more than foreigners for the prod
ucts OF our own land.
The Reform club, Of New York, has
taken this matter up with a view to put
ting the exact facts before the people.
The results of its investigations have
been published in a small pamphlet,
which a be had by applying to its
mailing office. No. B2 William street,
New York. This pamphlet is called PRO
tection's Home Market" The figures
In it have been In every case obtained
from the manufacturers themselves, and
in most instances are based upon a COM
parison Of three documents-the regular
price lists, the domestic discount sheet"
to the trade, and the export discount
sheet" as furnished by each manufact-
urer.
Now let Farmer B,bwn give a little
study to some of the figures from this
pamphlet, and he will see chow protec-
tion protects." Lot him turn his atten-
ton frst to his agric htural implements,
rshscHnst that , Manufacturers of these
- protecesaG duty of As per cent
In Home To For
Market eiKners
Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and
plow.-......--.--- .. I'LL co v =
An steel horse hoe and cultivA-
t0r with uhRaI % q