The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-23


cent from the list price, which is lower
than the dealer in them can buy while
the farmer must pay the list price.
TO the foreigner the protected mill
owner sells seed drill for Sc 80; COM
bined drill, rake and plough for $3.50;
Firefy wheel-hoe and plough for $3 so
a hand plough for $l.75. The foreigner
buys an Oneonta Clipper plough for
80. 80, but no American may.
For the Chieftan hay tedder the Amer
lean pays $58, the foreigner pays $35. 40
and ia like proportion for all like things.
On ploughs of all kinds the discount
to the foreign buyer is 80 per cent.
On the Nye Improved rake the dis
count to the foreign buyer is 25 per
cent.
On all other horse rakes, hay-tedders
and potato -diggers, 40 per cent
On garden rakes the discount to the
foreign buyer is 70 and 5.
On cast-steel garden rakes it is 20 per
cent.
And so on. These advertisements
continue in this one paper for forty two
columns.
Every protected industry in the
| United States which four weeks ago was
besieging the Committee on Ways and
has, is advertising to sell abroad, AT RE-
TAIL, cheaper than it can sell at home,
WHOLESALE. It's 'protection' is "pro-
lection to charge the American consum-
er higher price than it charges the
foreign consumer"
All the denials of the paid advocates
of the protected mill-owners may utter
will not avail against the simple foreign
advertisements cf the mill ll-oWners them
selves. 1t is not question of taking
any mans word. Each voter can easily
prove it for himself by sending twenty
five cents to the Engineering and Mining
Journal and asking for the export sup
plement, or by having friend in some
foreign country send him the foreign
advertisements of these protected mill
owners. The former is the easier and
quite as convincing.
There are forty-two wide columns of
this reading in each issue, which should
be ''interesting if not important" to the
Republican farmers who have voted
steadily for twenty-five years in favor OF
protecting" these manufacturers in
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their countrymen than they charged to
foreigners.
To get at the exact facts, the Tariff
Reform Committee of the Reform Club
of New York began last Autumn to
gather from the protected firms theil
| domestic discount sheets. By CORES
pondonce from focei gn counties, through
foreign merchants, the foreign discoun
sheets were obtained, although in some
: cases they were furnished directly anC
i with the domestic discounts-the sende
, being cynically indifferent to any com
ment The work of compiling and col
lating was intrusted to Mr.. J. AleXande
Lindquist, of Cornell University, one o
the most painstaking and careful of tar
i. iff writer's, and he has now on file, tabu
8 lated and arranged, many thousand o
these discount sheets, covering ever,
branch of protected manufactures ant
e showing that in every industry the mill
!. owner can and does and is only too gla'
i to compete in the foreign market, wher
O be is not protected, with the foreig
s mill owner.
Here is a summary of his report of tn
r home and foreign prices charged by tn
d protected firms engaged in some of tn
n protected metal manufactures. In ev
y cry case the 'foreign price" is RETAIL
il for single article for package), free o
10 board in New York City, while the dc
'. mestic price is for large wholesale LOT
k at factory, freight or express to be pal
IS by the buyer: