The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-04
Potato digger ...... 90 IS
pI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES - PEP CENT

Ai-Stctl- - til'n CUT = ~ 1 3J
Chilled, 10-inr:r ........ Is 30 ) e,
AiI-strcl, 10 inch .... I0 30 . IL
Three horse
Chilled, Sr............... 10 %
Chilled, jr....,...... 81 81
All-stecl, sr........ Il 90 Il 80
All-stoel, lr.......... II 60 II 60
Four-horso.
Two'gang ploughs, all
steel. GS 50 50 81
These are the prices that the for
eign farncrhas to pay for one plough,
and the prices which the American
dealer in ploughs has to pay in large
lots at the factory. The foreigner
pays no more freight than the
American dealer-sea frcights are
cheap. Farmers know the prices
they have to pay the local dealers.
Last month the axe manufacturers
of the United States formed q trust,
under the name of the american Axe
and Tool Company" The trust was
formed by the consolidation OF four
teen Of the largest manufacturing
conce1ns in the country. Concerning
It the Iron Age oi March 27th, 1890,
says: ''The general feeling among the
trade is that the axe makers have
formed q very strong 'associatio1l,
and have complete control Of the
market, or SO nearly so that the out
side makers will have scarcely any
appreciable effect on prices. It is
found that scarcely any orders can
be placed with outside manufacturers
who are not under the control OF the
American Axe and Tool Company.
The trade Will do well to note the
changed condition il this line OF
goods as regards the higher prices
now ruling, and the strong probability
of their maintenance for some time to
come. On first quality goods an ad-
vance is now made OF S1.75 to 1928.
| A further advance is contemplated III
the home market. There is no adj
vance possible in the foreign market.
For what is called hollow-ware,
such as tea sets, cake dishes: etc,
listed Mt $1,000, the home dealer pays
$3.50, but the buyer for the foreign
market pays only S4.61 for the same
articles.
On knives, forks, spoons and Other
fat-ware listed at $1,000, the price
to tie dealer in the '.homo market
is S4.36; but buyer for e1port
regardless OF tho quantity he may
take, pays only S3.75 for the same
articles.
The largest manufacturers Of these
goods have consolidated Their inter
ests and in this way control prices a.
we'll as though trust had bcei
formed. That the public general.
may not become aware CT this tLe
goods are sold with the stamps Of th'
old companies, as though no chang
had taken place
| A typewriter which costs N thi'
country S1OO OF, if the buyer has 81
ready purchased three, $50 for oacl
additional one he may buy, can b
bought for export for $50.
| But space is worth something, ant
it is idle to print more. For ever.
item here quoted, or that remains K
be quoted, tho price-ists are on file
and these prices to American anc
foreign consumers arc the prices Ger
tilted as correct over the signatures O
the protected firms charging them.
There is no guess work in the fore
going figures. They cannot pe i'm
peached by any Republican editor O,
advocate of the continuance OF pro
lection, who has any character tx
lose.
To the blind, the deaf and the idi
otic, who cannot or will not look ant
listen, these figures will have NJ
meaning, but to the men of sense
who have not surrendered themselve:
into party slavery, they viii have
much. They can no longer believe
the liars who are hired by the mill
owners to tell them that they neec
this 'sprotection" and must have it o.
they must close their mills.