Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-08-20
prices of nearly every class of agricul-

prices OF nearly every class or agr1cul-
tural implements.
But the Misrepresentation of the Econ
onnist-which sent out a manHto investi-
gate TIE WORLDS exposure and had his
report that it was absolutely accurate
IS as nothing to the deliberate forgery
which Farm and Fireside. Of Springfield,
o., an agricultural newspaper subsidized
with the advertisements of protected
mill owners, started on.a general round of
the Republican pres. Farm and Fire
side said:
A friend kind1S SAnpds Us copy of the New
York woRLD S eon one Of serteg St
that paper attempts to show. that the American
man ufaeturers are plupdertng the farmers by
selling farm Implements cheaper abroad than at
home, and asks If TIE WoRLD is trying to hum
0qF s9S aSlnf 1iEHsGsi many other po
"a TAKE one example from the list of implements
given. It is stated that the 10 40 Oliver plough
Is sold to English farmers f4r loss than to the
American. The manufacturers publicly, ever
their own siSnstures, give an unqualihed denial
OF the statement, and defy thfIr aceusers to pro-
duce truthful evidence to sus lain their charges.
The Oliver plough had pot been named
by The WoBLp. FarnA and Fireside
wanted its advertisement and to please
the protected nill-owners }generally, and
perhaps get On advertisement worth a
few dollars from the Oliver Company for
defending it from a statement never made
in THE WoRLD--or in any dSer paper. SO
far as any one. can Iearn-1 ydeliberately
coined this paragraph, whi En- is still pub
hshed by Republican PAPERS, although
Farm. and Fireside has sChce "apolo-
gized" by declaring that il did not say
anything of the kind, as il was not talk
ing about The WORLD. but something +"
or somebody else-what or whom it does
yan4 b0Cru THE oo,oJ11nt IF the hpr, naf
farmers Call in publishing Mr.. Farqu-
har's letter makes . strong contrast with
that of Farm and Fireside, which deliber-
ately deceived and deluded its readers.
The Republican weeklies throughout
the country are publishing a paragraph
it reads the same in each one-that The
World has been compelled TO aoknowl-
edge that the prices quoted for export
were false and fraudulent, and that its
statements concerning the prices charged
Americans Tit has never made even one
statement of this 1aturel have been
triumphantly ref1ted" But no Re-
publican editor has ever given the refu-
tation or published anything from The
WORLD to refute, Not one dare let his
readers even know what THE WORLD has
really done.
A GENERAL EEvHw OF EARDwARR
To get at the exact facts, the tarim reform
committee Of tho Reform Club Of New
York began last Autumn to gather from
the protected firms their domestic dis
count sheets. By correspondence from
foreign countries. through foreign mer-
chants, the foreign discount sheets were
obtained, although in some cases they
were furnished directly and with the
domestic dlscounts-the sender being
cynically Indifferent to any comment
The work of compiling and collating was
intrusted to Mr.. j Alexander Lindquist,
of Cornell University, one Of the most
painstaking and careful of tariff writer's,
and he has now on file, tabulated and ar
ranged, many thousands of these discount
sheets, covering every branch of pro-
tected manufactures and showing that In
every industry the mill-owner can and
does and Ia only too glad to compete in
the foreign market, where he is not
protected, with the foreign mill owner.
Omitting the illustrations, here is o
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 a single AZ
ticle Cor paekage). free on board in New
York City, while the domestic price is for
large wholesale lots at factory, freight or
express to be paid by the buyer;