Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-26
PRICES FOR EXPORT.

1 OOHAAO AAADSK0CIv0 11Rur0B For the DOm0Dt1e
Oonsumer-HoW Protected Manufacturers
Compete with Forelgners In the Foreign
Market BY Undertaking. Them, and ut the
Same Time Keep Prices From Ten to
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. 'tLet
Blank here buy for export, and reship it
to you from the wharf," suggested one
| OF the party.
'sHow will that help me?" asked the
intending purchaser
'You'll get it at least 40 per cent. of
wholesale prices"
us that true?'' was asked of the ex-
porter.
Thus appealed to the third M an looked
| little uncomfortable, and finally adj
mltted 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 a 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 a lower ex-
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
to 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
of many articles of American production
were considerably below the wholesale
rate of those articles to the domestic
dealer. Discount to the export trade
only" is a 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 AuStra1aSian and South Amer
lean:
SIT is mistake to suppose that our goods
are much dearer, as a rule, than those sup
piled by other countries AS a matter of
fact they are often cheaper, without taking
their superior qualities into consideration,
tn g 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-
ton 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, that any number
of vessels required would be quickly put on
Gas it is, we are supplying the bu k of the
railroad supplies and equipment used in
Chilli, and an equally large proportion of the
telegraph plant. Our sewing machines
printing machinery. mining machinery
wood and metal woI king tools and agricut-
ural implements, light hardware, woodware
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 up
an exceedingly profitable trade with the
United States, if our manufacturers would
only take the trouble to secure proper rep
resentation, for it is unQuestionably held as
much for the purpose of attracting American
exhibitors as for any thing else. We have
increased our trade with Chilli for the past
two months 100 per cent. as compared with
10 q of
this rate of increase up without trouble if
we only try to supply Gillian buyers with
just what they want in place of endeavorfng
to make them take what we have to sell.
The preliminary work has been successfully
completed, but we must exercise some iud~-
ment in reaping 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 hand), cider and
wine presses, root graters, hay and feed
cutters, grain separators, tanning mills,
horse powers (snaps and tread), farm en-
gines, churns, wheel-barrows, and in
all classes of machines in use by our
farmers are sold for export at prices
much below the rate to wholesale deal
ers at home. One manufacturer saws:
'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
a fair sample of the policy as to all the
articles named in the above list.
Cu1tivators enjoy protective duty of
IS per cent. Here is a short list of
prices that ought to interest the Amer
lean farmer:
In Home To For
Market eigners.
Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake
and pillow -$1101 $40
All steel horse hoe and cul-
tivator, with wheel....... 500 675
All steel, plain cultivator,
The above prices to the exporters as
we'll as for sale here are for single
articles. For export the cultivators are
delivered free on board ship at New
York. They are sold in all the markets
of the world, and catalogues describing
their merits are printed in English,
Spanish, German, French and Portu-
gueSe.
Horse rakes, tedders and potato dig |
gers are protected by duty of 45 per