The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-10-25
SOME or THE BEAUTIES or PRO-
LECTION.

The cry Of the Republican party Ia
that our infant ~ industries should
be PROTECTED againt the dreaded~
cheap labor of the foreigner II is
the custom of these same protected
infant { p industries to send part Of
their products abroad and sell them ia
competition with the products of the
pauper labor of Europe. "The Mail
and Export Journal of New York,
is devoted exclusively to advertising
American manufactured articles.
This same Mail and Export Journal
has editions printed for foreign
countries as well as for the home
market, but the prices charged to the
foreigner and the home buyer are
very different.
These differences have often been
shown up, but we will again trespass
upon our readers, and give our farmer
friends few items in their line. We
quote from the advertisement in the
Mail and Export Jeurnalof a promi-
nent manufacturing company, the
goods of which are often sold in this
market.
We take..a No. 3 Power cutting box,
and the American price is $50, while
the foreigner is charged $50. Take
Plow No. 36, same company; the
home man is charged So for it, and
the foreigner "a. A hay rake manu-
featured by the same company is sold
to the home buyer for $26, and to the
foreigner for SIT, etc., etc. We could
give you hundred instances of like
nature, and where the difference in
price is even more marked. And this
is protection, if you please, farmer
friend. We call it robbery and do
not believe you will say it is mis
homer. We append few extracts
from different journals, nearly all of
them protection organs, bearing ON
these matters:
at is sometimes looked upon as
wise to ship goods out OF this country
at cost, rather than break the regular
price for which such articles sell in
the country in which they are pro-
duced."-N. Y. Press, High Tariff
organ, October %, 1889. &
"Just why American manufacturers
will sell machinery and other goods
from ten to thirty per cent. cheaper in
Europe than they will sell them to the
user at home is rather Epuzzling: Out
anyone curious in che matter can edlsi-
ly enough find out that many of th&m
do this. 1t may be necessary to dpt
prices in order to secure trade from
abroad, but it is likely to strike the
American purchaser as being littl6i
rough on him. American Machinist
Protectionist, September 26, 1889. Z
During the prolonged discussion a
the tariff in the Senate, persistent Ell
! forts have been made to discredit and6
injure American manufacturers by
holding up to censure the policy Of
making special prices to the export
trade. 1t has been denounced as an
ubiquitous proceeding that American
producers should be willing TO let
foreigners have goods at prices lower
those which they ask American con-
sumers 10 pay. A vast amount of
evidence has been presented TO prove
a fact OF which everyone in business
is fully aware. 1t is done in many
lines and is fully justifiable, not alone
on broad grounds of policy, but also as
as measure beneficial to American
consumers" Iron Age, Protectionist,
September 4, 1890.
| American consumers will, however,
probably agree with this from the
Engineering and Mining Journal Of
March Is, 1890:
$50 soon as an industry has at
tanned the position where it can more
than supply our home market and has
to send its goods abroad, where they
compete with those of foreign manu-
facturers, it is evident that they are
, either giving the foreigners the bne-
fit of lower rates than they do our
own people, or that they are able
to get along at home without any pro-
. lection from foreign manufacturers.
IT is NOT FAIR THAT OUR OWN PEOPLE
: SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY MORE THAN
} FOREIGNERS FOR THE PRODUCTS OF
OUR OWN LAND"