The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-10-19
Prices of Farm Implem ants.


in the campain of 1888 and 1890 the old
falsehOod concerning the prices of farm
implements in the United States and else
where is being pressed into service again.
In answer to numerous inquiries we repro
duce the substance of the old controversy
that is undergoing Il renewal in certain of
the less generally circulated Democratic
newspapers.
The retail price of farm implements is
lower in the United States than i'm any 9TH
er country. That is TO say the American
farmer can buy hay tedder, mower, a
reaper, q cultivatOr. roller Il thrcshing
machine, or any like implement at low
er price than the farmer of any other coun-
try.
The figures dishonesty circulated by the
Democratic press represent the retail price
the price for one implement in the United
StateS--and the wholesale price-the price
for very many such implements TO foreign
dealers.
But zen these figures are false in
amount, as well as dishonest III their APP
pllcation. The country press frequently
has given instances of lower prices in vii
lage stores than are quoted IN the Demo-
cratic list, and farmer at Bridgeport, y.
Y, wrote TO the New York World, in
which newspaper the wonderful Wilson
first published his false charge, that he
had bought hay tedder IN the local store
at less price than Wilson quoted as whole
safe ldlt. H. w OIlu w dS lUutoJ
TO print the letter. S.'L. Allen Co., OF
Philadelphia, also wrote the World in con-
tradction OF Wilson's figures. They said,
among other things:
We deny altogether that our prices to the
domestic trade for the same quality of goods
are higher than to the export trade.
1t is the practice OF many makers to pre-
pare an inferior, and therefore lower
priced, class of goods for the foreign trade,
but for the same quality of goods there Is
no reduction.
Furthermore Allen & Co. said:
We deny that our Fircfy hand pillow is ever
quoted at the price you give.
We deny that We are advertising to sell
abroad at retail cheaper, or as cheap, rs we sell
The Mccormick Reaper Company, the
Studebaker Wagon Company, the Oliver
Chilled Plow Company, the Amcs Shovel
Company and several other eminent firms
made explicit denial through the columns
of the lnter-Ocean Of any knowledge of
lower prices TO foreign than to domestic
customers. This put an END to the wicked
system of falsehOodS In 1890.
Please notice that during the two years
in which there was no political excitement
the Democrats have not dared to repeat
these false charges. They are reiSsued
now on the eve and in the excitement of
general election, and are confined TO the
country preSs-evidently In hope that they
Will escape the notice OF the larger and
better-intOrmed newspapers.
Except where sales are made in very
large lots, and for cash on delivery on
board ship, no standard American imple
meDt is sold lower to the foreign than to
the domestic trade. Interior goods, made
purpoSely for export trade, OF course, sell
lower than standard goods made for the
home market.
Reverting to our first assertion that the
American farmer pays less for his imple-
| mentS than the farmer of any other cOun-
try we reproduce some figures, first pub
lshed by an American country newspaper
the AnamoSa (lOwa) Eureka in proof
thereof. 1t is about four years since they
were published, and no trec-tradc writer
or speaker has dared TO call them i'm Ques
ton. The British prices are prices ut the
| factory. the American prices are prices q {
store In Anamosa, which is Il little town
of 1000 souls. Note the differences
Bristol. Engld, Price. Iowa Price.
Four-w zee Best Star wag
wagon...... -. Si65a2G5 on. ....... 5000 65
| Light cart 5000. 76D S3,Light wagon. COO IS
Stowmarket, Iowa
Eng. Price. Price
Grain grinding mills. So $50 f20@I0
| se-harrows......... ......... l2D 90 4@20
! Horse-rakes....... ............" BOA 60 2c@ 20
| Land rolers......r...........~ 34@lO2 10@22
| Hon. Thomas Dudley, when acting as
| American consul in France. made a care
| ful examination as to comparative prices
| OF farm implements in America and Eu-
| rope, and found that they were, on an av-
eragc 30 per cent. cheaper in price and so
| per cent. better in quality here than
| abroad.