The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-03
PROF. PAUL HITS BACK.
COURTEsIEs OF THE REPUBLICANS
ARE ACKNOWLEDGED.
Some Plain Facts That Cannot be
Dodged or Denied-The s'LOgiciano
Cfnches His Argument.
Editor Herald:

Editor Herald:
I find myself the honored subject of
four complimentary notices in the
papers of yesterday, of which 1 should,
no doubt, make acknowledgment.
First there is a brilliant column from
Mr. Wells in the News, which consists
largely of calling me person whose
bulging brow is inlaid with figures
memorized from Democratic campaign
tracts" the ''ponderous logician of Lo-
gan" with a 'mastodon mind" a
Democratic whirlwind." "the great
human tariff catapult from Logan"
Paul parrot" etc.
There are several columns of Tribune
editorials directed towards me, as also
a speech of Governor Thomas and one
of Mr.. Varian. There is more sense in
these than in Mr.. Wells frivolity. They
do not "call names; but their argu-
ment is directed to the question of
whether American protected goods are
ISold more cheaply abroad than at home.
They do not come to the point, how
ever L exhibited the published adver-
tisements of a large number of our
protected manufacturers in which the
manufacturers themselves offer to sell
abroad more cheaply than at home.
Here is one of them: Baskets. Cor
rugated copper. Price cents per
square inch, less 80 per cent. discount
for home trade. Less 60 per cent dis
count for export trade"
My respected opponents dodge this
issue and talk Justify of a Singer sew
ling machine factory in Glasgow. The
existence of this factory has nothing
to do with these cases.
I pYbiEitp6 r1;1Db nrs Of adUartiSa-
ments of this kind including nearly all
kinds of agricultural implements and
many other articles. T-stated also that
when had spoken ef-these advertise
ments in cer ,ain places, men had come
up and given personal verification of
| the fact. Among them, two men men
toned American sewing machines, say
ling they also are sold more cheaply
abroad, and giving me the details Of
| these transactions.
| Now, of this sewing machine matter
stated nothing except what these men
| had told me; yet it is an instructive
| fact that of all l said on this subject,
| the sewing machine item is the only
| one to which my opponents make ser
ious reference, explaining all the 9TH
er cases away by the lucky fact that
there is a Singer factory at Glasgow.
| One says the other protected goods
advertised abroad are wholesale prices,
which l compared with home prices.
A single plow is offered free on board
to a foreigner at 81; in the home mar
ket at S. This is wholesale, is it?
| Another says these are old stock
that cannot be sold here. A glance
at the gasket advertisement quoted
above disposes of that notion. The
machinery advertised is illustrated
with wood-cuts, and is the same ma
chine in each instance.
| 1t would seem like painting the lily
| TO offer still more evidence on this SUBJ
| ject, but the following letter from the
editor of the Engineering and Mining
Journal. one of the papers in which
these home and foreign advertisements
are published, settles the whole mat
tier:
| Engineering and Mining Journal, New
York, Aug. &c, 1S90.-Dear Sir-I am
obliged to you for the Letter of Aug. 25
respecting proceedings taken in the
Senate regarding our prices Current -
! Prices quoted by us are, as you will
notice at the head of the first column,
for export only" and the prices there
in given are the prices at which every
foreign subscriber can bny in this mar
Iket It stands to reason that orders
for farm implements are frequently
flor one only. If to buy one machine
is retail trade. then these foreign
prices are retail prices.
! Our domestic subscribers are barred
| ITOIH the prices quoted IN THESE col
lumns. These special discounts are For
Exports Only and in more than one
instance we have lost our advertiser
through our publishing these prices
l enclose an invoice from S. Allen
& Co.. which you will see is for one
Iof the machines quoted by us, and you
will notice that it conforms exactly
with our prices as reprinted by you
lin 1.-The World and that the net
Iprice on the bill is exactly as stated
by you in 1.-THE World"
Your statement that the foreigner
lean buy at retail in this market cheap-
Ter 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 to us: Prices furnished are
for export only, and it would be most
Injurious to us if these figures were
circulated in the home market"
In going through our letters this
morning, we counted no less than fifty
eight received during the month OF
July, thanking US for publishing the
Prices Current as it enabled our sub.
scribers to keep a check on the prices
charged them on their indents.. Yours
very truly,
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOUR.
NAL.
To T. E. Wilson.
Unless our protected manufacturers
lsell more cheaply abroad than here
the tariff does them no good, for other.
wise 1T does not advance the home
l r1ri IF iaNi