Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03

seed oil are ingredients. Before the forma-
tion of the lead and -linseed oil trusts We
were exporting these goods.'
"A manufacturers agent. exporting agri-
cultural tools, handles, etc, says:
1.-The difference between home and export
discounts in this line ranges from IA to Is
per cent
"a watch manufacturing company says:
"sTne difference between home and ex-
port price is about is per cent
"rhis company threatened to withdraw
their advertisement from the Engineering
and Mining Journal because we quote their
export discount in papers that circulate in
the United states. tool company With
makes picks, hammers, etc.
"'Refuse absolutely to give the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal an advertiser emit
as long as it continues to publish their ex-
port discounts
1.-The agent for a blower manufacturer says
they
"aGive a discount on all of their goods of 10
and per cent. for export, whereas they
only give 10 per cent. for home trade
"a company manufacturing water motors,
hammers, etc, make the following dis
counts
ION water motors, allow 40 per cent. for ex-
port 80 per cent. for home trade; on ham
mers, 40 per cent for export and 20 per cent.
for home trade; skaters tools, they give 30
and 35 per cent for export, only 20 per cent
for home trade
"a manufacturer of packing writes us:
"'The very bottom home price on packing
is 40 cents net per pound, and the best for
export 50 cents; the list In both cases being
as cents per pound.
"These examples could be multiplied in
definitely and are merely cited in confirma-
ton of what every one knows-that our
manufacturers sell goods for export cheap
er than to the home trade. The fact is indis-
putable.
"Will 1t be surprising il the people of this
country who are imposed upon by tariff
protected trusts, and who are taxed SO
r, fhan inpe nfa
tariff, some day arise and sweep the whole
protective policy away without considering
the incalculabie injury that this sudden
change of conditions will bring upon many
important industries"
A Tariff Census.
The american Economist" the or
gan of the American Protective Tariff
League, has taken a census of the SEN
Tor classes in forty-two colleges to de-
termine the tariff views of the gradu-
ates and the tendency of their tea ching
in political economy. The result af-
fords little comfort to the protectionist
organ which undertook to gather this
information.
About 1, 500 answers were received, of
which 4Ss were in favor of protection,
GA tariff reform and 274 free-trade.
The percentages re, 80 per cent. for
protection, 4s for tariff reform and 90
for free trade; or, making two classes,
the protectionists have 80 per cent, and
the opponents of protection 6s per cent.
The students were asked to give also
their Judgment of their instruction in
political economy as regards the tariff
question. The result of this inquiry
was that 219 say their instruction was
in favor of protection, 342 say that it
was in favor of tariff reform, 457 that it
favored free trade, and 23S say that it
was impartial. Most of the great insti-
buttons of the country show a very large
preponderance in favor of tariff reform
| and free trade.
1t has been for many years standing
| complaint among protectionists that
the colleges of the country are training
young men to disbelieve in the great
American system, as they call it; and
the figures of this census of the
seniors give abundant ground for
their complaints These figures show
| Enthusiastically the drift of opinion among
the most intelligent young men in the
Countrywide young men who will fur
| nish the leaders of thought and action
in the future. The educated opinion of
the country is steadily making itself
| felt in opposition to protection, and a
system which has the intelligence of
the country against it can not long sur
vive-its doom is already decreed.
The American Economist has done a
good service to the friends Of tariff re-
form in collecting these statistics. I'VE
thank thee, Jew, for giving US these fig
| uresf-,