The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-26
roRE:oN AND HOME MARKET.

rOHE8GN ANU ffOME MARINE ts 1 Mckinley Says That No sanctity Hangs l About the Foreign Market-But Our 1 Manufacturers Arc selling In That Market 1 Cheaper Than at Home-An investigation I Which Proves This.
 1 1t will be remembered that during | the brief debate on tho Tariff bill in the House of Representatives tho charge was made by Congressman Mansur, of Missouri, that our manufacturers in many instances sell abroad at discount rate lower than in the homo market. Mir. Smyser, of Ohio. denied this and quoted high tariff paper of his State, the Cleveland Leader, to prove that Ii was not true.
 | Then some protectionist statesman sent off telegram to one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural imple- ments in the country, asking him to send strong denial at once. This de- nial it was proposed to read in the House with crushing effect and put to confusion the enemies of the holy system of pro I tection.
 In short time the answer came, but it was not what was ordered. It read as follows:
 'of course we sell cheaper to foreign CTS than to Americans. What is protec- tion for?''
 l But this particular manufacturer is no believer in protection. In fact he has said that the only effect protection has on his business is to .:s1.ahu his goods dearer to the American people. l He wanted his answer known on the other side in Congress and so he tele- l graphed the whole thing to prominent l Democrat, and the Democrats had the Republicans, as it is popularly said, 'in hole"
 Some of the protectionist newspapers | of the country have tried to deny that these export discounts arc made. But 1 these attempted denials have only made matters worse, for tho Engineering and Mining Journal, a prominent trade paper | of New York has settled the question | in way that no longer leaves room to doubt.
 The result of this papers invcstiga- tion is so striking, and is so important 1 to the consumers that the article is here reproduced entire:
 | DISCOUNTS FOR EXPORT ONLY. 'sIn the House of Representatives, on the ! 20th Inst, in the discussion of the Tariff bill, 1 Mir. Mansur, of Missouri, brought up the | question of our manufacturers selling their l goods for export cheaper than they do to the 1 home trade, and he cit q the Export TrIce l List, issued every month with the Engineer l ing and Mining Journal, in proof of the truth of his statcment. Mir Mansur. knowing the standing of this journal, naturally felt as- ! sured that the statements and figures pub 1 lished in our pages are absolutely correct and can be relied cn; but Congressman 1 Smyscr, of Ohio, with whose views these facts ciashed, replied, quoting the Cleveland Leader, to the effect that American manu- facturers make lower discounts to the home trade than to the foreign, statement which is so easily disproved that the Cleveland Leader can not be ignorant of the fact. .,In order to confirm the confidence which MT. Mansur has shown in our statements, on receipt of the Congressional Record of the 1 Fist inst, containing the report of these speeches, we had few of the most impor' tant man nufacturing concerns, with offices in this city, interviewed, and we give here briefly the substance of what they say. The names are withheld, though we forward them to Mir. Mansur for his satisfaction. They are all firms Of high standing, the largest concerns of their classes, and their statements are easily verified.
 "The manager of very prominent iron works said:
 "'we manufacture exclusively engines and boilers; we, of course, make discount for export. As an illustration: The 20 horse power engine on the first page of our cata- logue is listed at s500 Our lowest price for same to dealers or wholesale houses of any kind in this country is s525 net; our export discount ranges from 2l2 to 7i2 per cent. bet ter than the home trade, according to the size of the engine.'
 "One of the very largest exporting firms, who manufacture silver plated ware, says:
 "We allow an export discount of 60, 10 and 5 from our list. The best home discount we ever give is 50, IS and 10 per cent. This, however, is only on large orders
 "Another of our large silver plate manu- lecturers, who does very large export busi- ness, says:
 cent. Our home discount is 90 per cent. We sometimes allow an extra per cent, but only with few firms.
 "A slate manufacturing concern, doing a very large business, says:
 "'Of course, we have special export dls- counts. (see Export Discounts stamped on outside of our cataiogue).' "The catalogue shows these export dis counts to be from 3sIs to 50 per cent. and on large lots per cent, more.
 "one of the largest cutlery companies in the country, doing good export business. says:
 "'We, of course, make considerable dlf- ference in the discounts on export trade. We object, however, to giving you our home discounts, as they fuctuate.'
 "The export discounts in this case are 4per cent. greater than those to the home trade, and the firm writes: Prices are for export only
 "A large fancy hardware house writes: "'Certaniy we make difference on export frad I'm Am to ur much that we will have to make list out for you
 "A very important hardware honse an- swers:
 "Iowest price at which we sell goods, class or net, we allow for export a dis count of 10 per cent. upon all other goods we allow ssls per cent. for export and 25 per cent to large home dealers
 "One of the largest exporting manufactur CTS of paints and varni ishes makes the fol lowing very important statement. We may say that the heads of this concern are, or were at the time of the last Presidential election. very strong Republicans and pro. tectionists. Their political and politieo- economical views appear to have been very greatly modified by the practical work ing of the trust protection policy now in force. and by the threatened increase in the tariff:
 "'we used to make a discount for export
 
 trusts have completely destroyed the ex- port trade in paints and varnishes. To give an idea of the injury trusts have done us you will readily see. Llnseed oil to-day is selling in England at 84 cents per gallon we are paying 6l cents per gallon to the trust This Is difference of 80 per cent in favor of the English manufacturer. White lead is selling in England at cents per pound; we are paying 6l3 net, making a difference of 60 per cent against us We can not buy our oil in England as there Is a tariff of 25 cents per gallon on oil; thus with freight, insurance and other charges, it brings the price of oil the slightest fraction over the price charged by the trust. They are now talking of rats ing the tariff on inseed oil. This will enable the trust to again raise their price on 1t. As an illustration of the injury this trade is re- ceiving, we can assure you that If the Me- Kinley blll were to pass, and could be guar anteed to us for ten years, we could make thousands of dollars each year by removing auF plant tO EuuianH. Innnufncturiup fhpra