Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-14
SELLING CHEAPER TO FOR
EIGNERS.


EIGNERS.
The New York Journal of Com
MERGE presents some interesting
examples of protected manufacture
ers selling articles cheaper to for
ei !. ners than to Americans, for the
reason that "abroad they meet
competition while here the tariff
protects them from competition, if
they take The trouble 20 form a
trust or "combine.' BituminOus
coal, says the Journal, Is sent
from PENNSYLVANIA to the we at
Indies and Mexico and sod there
at S1.00 per ton, while the same
coal will not be sold at New York
for less than 50 ton. Evidently
the price on the cost is the result
Of combine and the effort of the
coal LarOns to keep coal off the
free list was inspired by a desire
to stage of healthy competition.
IT they get a profit by selling
coal to the foreigner at 81 90 a ton,
they ought to have profit eLough
in selling at home at that price.
The journal produces the figures
of ali actual bill of sale tor a type
writer sent from New York to
Peru, Oh which the Perry ian got a
discount OF 20 per cent, While 10
the native American no discount
at all is made unless he buys six
machines, and then tn, di:conn5
is bat 10 per cent, Oil all bought
alter tie six. To the American
th4 price is 800, WI lie to the
Peruvian the price is but so.
Ell )rts were nude to get some dis.
count for an American buyer, but
1t was acaSt.irOn rule not to allow
any unless the goods were to be
sent aboard ship for actual tx
portation. The duty on typewriters
under tie Mckinley act was 40
per cent. Under the tariff law Of
1894 the duty is 30 per cent.
Evidently no duty IS needed. The
cost of the 500 typewriter. Las
been asceItained, is from SIS to
$29, including material, labor and
all expenses.
A recent instance is cited by
the Journal OF New York lady
giving $50 for a sewing machine,
while her guest, who was from
San Domingo, got one of the same
sort at the same place for S22 %.
The seller would deliver the
machine to the S.n Domingo
woman in New York, but must see
that it was actually shipped on
board an outgoing steamer. The
Journal says these are only illus
tratlOns OF an extensive system.
A very long list Of machines,
tools, c)ttOn goods, g., is sold at
a discount to the foreigner, the
native American, WHO Is patriot
cally protecting the manufacturer,
being Disseminated against. The
sun has frequently published
lists Particles sold cheap to the
foreigner but dear to the home
buyer. The reason is plain. Pro-
tected manufacturers are In bust.
ness to make money, and when
the law is so framed as to enable
them to pluck their neighbors they
usually pluck them to the fill ex
tent permitted b, he law.
They all do it," and it is "busi
ness,' says the "practical men, to
make all one can out of ores Op
portunities. What would he the
use Cf a tariff projecting the
American manufacturer from for
eign competition if it did not put
extra money into his pocket They
can sell abroad at foreign prices,
but at home they will sell at the
home price. which is the foreign
price with tue tariff rate added.
The system is shame fdl. IL might
do in a land of snobs, where every
b dy was rich and able to give
bOuntIes TO manufacturers for
their goodness in going into busi
ness, but it is out of pace in
country where the masses of the
people are poor and IN Ist strugg 10
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