The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-09

head of the Pennsylvania Agricultural
works. a leading manufacturer for the
home and foreign trade. Here is a
paragraph from his reply:
Certainly our manufactures are sold
much lower abroad; we could only need
protection to get better prices from our
customers at home. We do nlanufac-
ture and sell in Canada, South America,
and Europe many agricultural imple-
ments and machines, and could we
] have free raw material and the COM
mercial advantages which free trade
would give us, America would become
the great manufacturing emporium of
the world, and the farmer, of course,
would share the prosperity, since he
would have less to pay for everything
land get better prices for all he sold.
In reference to the same question,
the New York World was met by the
story that export prices published in
the Engineering and Mining Journal
We're wholesale and the home prices
were retail. So, in answer to its in
quiries, the latter journal sent reply
from which we quote as follows:
Prices quoted by us are, as you will
notice. at the head of the first column,
for export only" and the prices therein
given are the prices at which every
foreign subscriber can buy in this
market. 1t stands to reason that
orders for farm implements are fire.
quently for one only. If to buy one
machine is retail trade, then these
foreign prices are retail prices.
Your statement that the foreigner
can buy at retail in this market cheap
ler than the domestic consumer, is as
|indisputable as the daily revolution of
the earth. We can enumerate any
number of instances where houses have
written us: prices furnished are for
export only, and it would be most in
furious to us if these figures were cir
culated in the home market.
In the Cosmopolitan for August an
ARTICLE by w. D. Kelly says:
Our engineer corps had purchased
field instruments of leading firm at
New York City at a price 20 per cent.
greater than we could have bought the
same Instruments, of the same firm,
had we ordered them from South
America. An equipment of rifles and
side arms, even with a. discount al
lowed us in New York City. would not
bring as much after we had carried
them to South America. The same
thing applies to sewing machines. and
calicoes especially. and almost all
manufactured articles in general.
During the hearings on the present
tariff bill before the Ways and Means
committee, the color manufacturers
made a plea for protection to their
trade in which the annexed paragraph
appeared:
We make quicksilver vermillion. 1t
QUICKSILVER pays a duty of 10 cents
pound 1t is found here in our own
country. largely in California, but the
quicksilver men, singularly enough,
will sell for export in our home market
at a lower price than they will sell to
us for manufacture and to turn into
vermillion. For instance, the price for
export, we have known it to be at
times from $50 TO $3.50 a flask. while
would be s37 to S38 a flask.
These extracts are made to show
where the falsehood lies on this whole
sale and retail dispute. The assertion
that the export price is wholesale and
the home price retail, is merely an eff
fort to sneak away from the issue.
The fact remains that in large num-
Der of American manufactures. the
same classes of goods are sold cheaper
abroad by the same firms than they
sell them in the United States, and
they clamor for a continued high tar
if ON those goods that this swindle
may be continued, and that is one of
the beauties and benefits of the Repub-
lican system of protection.