Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-02-18
n NORTH DAKOTA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1892

ing answer of A. B. Farqr' az, an agri-
cultural implement maker of York,
Pa, to the Home Market Club:
Fnrquhnr's Frankness.
'We do sell goods cheaper to GUS
toners in foreign countries directly
and to jobbers for export than we do
to the domestic trade. This l could
not truthfully deny or candidly con-
ceal. You would like to learn the pro-
cess by which the manufacturer can
afford to sell the foreign buyer goods
for less than he can the homo custom
er. The reply is simplicity itself.
We receive the prices current in the
market in which we sell. We cannot
get more, and cannot be expected to
take less" The resolution concludes:
Whereas, Under this system of plum
dering the farmers OF our country they
are compelled to pay more for their
implements than the same implements
are sold for to farmers abroad, whose
products are marketed in competition
with the products of our farms; and
Whereas, The duties upon farm i'm
plements are an unjust discrimination
against American farmers, for the
benefit of manufacturers who do not
need it, and are therefore legalized
robbery; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the committee on
ways and means be, and they are here
by instructed to report a bill to this
house at an early day placing all kinds
Of agricultural implements on the free
list.
Unique, Gentcel Steals.
''My reason for the Introduction of
the resolution" said Mr.. Fithian, lis
indicated by the resolution itself. 1t
has often been asserted and never sue
cessfully denied that implements man
ufactured in the United States were
sold to the foreign trade for less than
the same are sold to our own farmers
During the last campaign in New
York state, was Informed by many
farmers of st. Lawrence county, in
that state, which is the hotbed of Re-
publicanism and protection, that i'm
plements manufactured in the United
States such as we're used by the farm,
ers of the whole country could be pur.
chased much cheaper in Canada, just
across the St. Lawrence River, thai
the same implements cost on thu
American side.
''There is no class of people of oul
country that have felt the unjust bur
dens of our present tariff system more
than the farmers. They are compelled
to sell their products in the free mar
kets of the world and buy all thei1
necessaries in protected market.
do not believe in attacking the McKin
ley bill by piecemeal, but if that is tt
be the policy I know of no better way
to attack it than by placing farm i'm
plements on the free list.
|
''If it is true, as Mr.. Farquhar as
serts, that implements made here ar
sold for less to foreign farmers than tt
our own farmers, does it not demon
strate that our manufacturers Of i'm
plements are not in need of protection
| believe that all raw material shoult
also go on the free list. If our manu-
facturers of implements are now com
peting with foreign-made implement
under our present tariff laws: will
free raw material they could suppl
our own people with implements mucl
cheaper, and capture the markets o
the world in the implement trade"
In regard to the resolution of MI
Fithian, Mr.. Watson, of the people,
party, said: II think that is propo
sition that will have the support of tn
peoples party representatives, if it
reported from the committee. 1t seem
one way within the reach of congres
to afford the farmer partial relief, an
we would naturally be in favor of tn
free list being as far as possible eS
tended to all articles except luxuries
For that reason we would favor thi
proposition.