Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-25

to pay for these implements. Here is
the advertisement, 10 sell at retail. free
ON board, at Nelp York, at discounts
ranging from 30 to 20 per cent. from the
list price-which is lower than the deal
er in them can buy, while the farmer
must pay the list price. To the foreign
er the protected mill-owner sells seed
drill for $3.50; combined drill, rake
and plough for $3.50; FREELY wheel
hoe and plough for 50. so; hand-plough
for Sl.75. The foreigner buys an One
onta Clipper plough for $3.50, but no
American may.
For the Chieftaia hay-tedder the
American pays $50, the foreigner pays
$3.50, and in like proportion for all
like things.
On ploughs Of all kinds the discount
to the foreign buyer is 30 per cent.
On the Nye Improved rake the dis
count to the foreign buyer is % per
cent.
On all other hay-rakes, hay-tedders
and pOtato-diggers, 40 per cent.
On garden rakes the discount TO the
foreign buyers is 20 and ).
On caSt-steel garden rakeS it is 20 per
cent.
And so on. These advertisements con-
tinueS 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 Means for more protection" than
il now has, is advertising TO sell abroad,
I 81, will at
home, iChOleSdle. Its protection" is
protection to charge the American
consumer higher price than it charges
the foreign consumer"
All the denialS the paid advocates of
the protected mill-owners may utter
will not avail against the simple for
eign advertisements of the mill-owners
themselves. 1t is not question of
taking any mans word. Each voter
can easily prove it for himself by send
ing twenty-five cents to the Engineering
and Mining Journal and asking for the
export supplement, or by having a
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
charging from 10 to 20 per cent. more to
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 their
domestic discount sheets. BY cores
pondence from foreign countries,
through foreign merchants, the for
eign discount sheets were obtained, al
though in some cases they were fur
nished directly and with the do
nestle diScounts-the sender being
cynically Indifferent to any
comment. The work of com
piling and collating was in
trusted to Mr.. j. Alexander LindquiSt,
of Cornell University, one of the most
painStaking and careful Of tariff writers,
and he has now on file, tabulated and ar
ranged, many thousand OF these dis
protected manufactures and showing
that in every industry the mill-owner
can and does and is only too glad to
compete in the foreign market, where
he is not protected, with the foreign
mill-Owner.
Omitting the illustrations, here is a
summary of his report of the home and
foreign prices charged by the protected
firms engaged in some of the protected
metal manufactures. In every case the
..foreign price" is RETAIL, for single
article Tor package), free on board in
New York City, while the domestic
prices is for large wholesale lots at fac
tory, freight or express to be paid by
the buyer:
cuLrIvAroRs-PRoTEcT 45 PER CENT.
Price IN Price to
home market foreigners.