Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-28
PRICES FOR EXPORT.

Forty Per Cent. Higher In the Domestic
Market.
Three or four men dining together at
. club in New York one night fell to
talking about an article of furniture
which one OF them wished to buy. ''Let
Blank here buy for export, and reshipit
70 you from the wharf," suggested one
Of the party.
"How will that help moo" asked the
intending purchaser.
"You'll get 1t at least 40 per cent of
Wholesale prices"
rs that true?" was asked OF the ex-
porter.
Thus appealed to the third man looked
0 little uncomfortable, and finally adj
mitted that he had known such things
done. Protected manufacturers, he went
on to explain, have two wholesale prices
-one to those who sell in this country:an-
other, and much lower one, to those who
export manufactured goods to foreign
countries. The exporter was bound to
admit that the practice Of buying 'for
export" and then selling the goods thus
purchased to favored friends in this
country was hardly fair, and was, in
deed, something that honest exporters
did not like to do. On the other hand,
however, the existence OF lower exc
port price than the price to persons
dealing exclusively with the domestic
consumer was, to his mind, conclusive
evidence that the tariff, or something
else, enabled manufacturers to sell their
product at home at prices much beyond
what is needed to give fair profit.
The whole subject has since been in
vestigated and below are given some OF
the facts.
Two monthly publications in New
York, the American Mail and Ex-
port Journal and the Australasian
and South American, are devoted
70 the export trade. They are not
permitted to circulate in this coun.
try, and when inquiries were made
at the offices Of publication as to the
reason Of this, the frank answer was that
the prices quoted for export in the case
ofmany articles of American production
were considerably below the wholesale
dealer. Discount to the export trade
only" Is Q common phase In the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal, which pub
fishes monthly price current One Of
these publications exhorts the foreign
buyer to compare the prices for export OF
American goods with the European prices
on similar products. 1t must be borne
in mind that these very foreign goods
referred to are products against which
the American manufacturer demands
protection at the hands Of Congress.
Says the Australasian and South Amer
ican:
at is a mistake to suppose that our goods
are much dearer, as rule, than those sup.
piled by other countries AS q matter Of
fact they are often cheaper, without taking
their superior qualities into consideration,
this being the case particularly with the
articles on which Chilli has undertaken to
reduce the duty.
"Nor are we under very serious disad.
vantages when the question Of transporta.
tion arises. There are nearly always ships
loading in New York and Boston for ports
on the west coast OF south America, and the
rates Of freight obtained make the shipping
business paying one, so that anv number
Of vessels required would be quickly put on.
"As 1t Is, we are suppl? ing the bu k Of the
railroad supplies and equipment used In
Chill, and an equally large proportion of the
telegraph plant. our sewing machine 8,
printing machinery. mining machinery,
wood and metal woI king tools and agricut.
ural implements, light hardware, woodward,
ETC., are popular and selling well, although
we could very materially increase our trade
IN these lines by more careful regard for
what the buyers require. The approaching
exhibition OF mill machinery should open mp
an exceedingly profitable trade with the
United States, II our manufacturers would
only take the trouble to secure proper rep
resentation, for IL Is unquestiOnably held az
much for the purpose of attracting American
exhibitors as for any thing else. We have
increased our trade with chill for the past
two months 100 per cent. as compared with
the same period last year, and we can keep
this rate of increase up without trouble, II
we only try to supply Gillian buyers with
Just what they want, In place Of endeavoring
60 make them take what we have to sell.
The preliminary work has been successfully
completed, but we must exercise some judg-
ment in reaplng the harvest"
Flows, harrows, cultivators, seed
drills, corn planters, road scrapers,
rollers, moving machines, horse rakes,
corn shelters (both hand and power),
grinding mills, corn and cob mills run
by steam power and by HANDY, cider and
wine presses, root graters, hay and feed
cutters, grain separators, tanning mills,
horse powers (snaps and tread), farm en-
Cines, churns, wheel-barrows, and in
all classes of machines in use by our
farmers a-e sold for export at prices
much below the rate to wholesale deal
ers at home. One manufacturer says:
''Our prices to the domestic trade aver
age about 10 per cent. more than to the
export trade. We box and deliver in
New York all our export goods; domestic
goods are quoted on cars here" This is