The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-31


Trusts harmless is to reduce the tariff
so as to permit foreign competition.
The whole tendency of taxes on
raw material is to depreciate the quail
ty of goods This tariff question has
become question of right and wrong.
When a majority of the people ander-
stand it as / do, they will rise up in
their might and break down the excess
! sive tariff. All this talk about free
trade is rank nonsense and is INDUCED
in by demagogues and dishonest men
who know better. The requirements
in the way Of revenue make necessary
all the tariff that is needed for any
honest purpose.
The duty on axes at present is 45 per
cent. 1t can be OF. no. service to the
axe-makers except to enable them to
/ charge the farmers, wood-cutters and
4 laborers, a higher price than if the
duty was taken off, in which case they
would have to sell at home for nearly
as low prices as they charge abroad.
During the recent tariff debate in
4 Congress, Mr.. Money, of Mississippi,
showed the discrepancies between the
home and export prices of agricultural
I implements and machinery, and was
interrupted by several gentlemen with
denials on the strength of statements
that had been made by Senator Aid
rich in 1892. Mr.. Money had quoted
from a pamphlet which he supposed
would not be disputed, and for time
it seemed as though he would be talked
down by the Republicans.
! But Mr.. Warner, of New York, OBJ
tanned the floor and declared that every
item in the pamphlet was true, hav-
ing been verified and prepared under
his personal supervision. The particu-
lars had been obtained from the manu-
facturers here and the importers abroad
and were indisputable. Mr.. Warner
went on to prove that in a vast array
of articles made in this country which
were protected by the high tariff, the
identicalIy similar goods were sold at
much higher price for the home
trade than for export The gentleman
gave some quotations from The Aus
traIasian and South American, in proof
of this, also from the Mail and Export
Journal; and he added:
Upon the first publication of the
above. there came a storm of vitupera-
ton and denial from the paid agents
of certain protected manufacturers. TO
test the matter the Farmers Call, OF
Quincy, H.. wrote Mr.. A. 3. Farquhar'
the head of the Pennsylvania Agricul-
tural works. one of the leading manu-
facturers, both for the home trade and
for export, of agricultural implements
and machinery. His answer was as
July 30, 1890
THE fact is that our protective
laws are a monstrous swindle upon
the agricultural community. AS
manufacturer L was inclined to say
nothing on the subject, for the reason
that it was natural to suppose if any
body was benefited it was the manu-
featuring class, to which l belong.
But, as l have explained, the farmer
is being destroyed. We are killing the
goose for the golden egg. And L hon
estly believe now that it is to the in
! terest of the manufacturers themselves
to eliminate the protective feature from
our tariff laws.
Certainly our manufactures are sold
much lower abroad; we could only
need protection to get better prices
from our customers at home. We do
manufacture and sell in Canada, South
America and Europe many agrieul-
! tural implements and machines, and
could we have free raw material and
( the commercial advantages which free
trade would give us, America would
become the great manufacturing en-
porlum of the world, and the farmer,
of course, would share the prosperity,
since he would have less to pay for
everything and get better prices for
all he sold. Go on with your good
work. When the farmer begins to
think and rise up against this swindle,
lit is doomed"
Meanwhile the Australasian and
South American made the following
admission:
by comparing the prices at which
goods are sold to the export merchant
and the catalogue rates which the or
binary purchaser pays, it is possible to
show very striking discrepancy in
favor of the exporter but claimed
that the lower prices quoted foreign
ers were for the wholesale trade alone:
whereupon the World published the
following from the Engineering and
Mining Journal:
Engineering and Mining Journal,
New York August 26, 1890.
Dear Sill am obliged to YOU for
the letter of August %, respecting pro-
ceedings taken in the Senate regarding
our Price 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 buy in this mar
ket. 1t stands to reason that orders
for farm implements are frequently
for one only. If to buy one machine is
retail trade, then these foreign prices
are retail prices.
Our domestic subscribers are barred
from the prices quoted in these col
umns These SPECIAL discounts are
for export only and in more than one
instance we have lost our advertiser
through publishing these prices.
l 1nclose an invoice from S. Allen
q Co, which you will see is for one of
the machines quoted by us, and you
VIII notice that it conforms exactly
with our prices as reprinted by you in
the World and that the net price on
the Dill IS exactly as stated by you in
the World
Your statement that the FOREIGNER
can buy at retail in this market chean-
er than the domestic consumer is as
lndisputable as the daily revolution of
the earth. We can enumerate anv
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 going through our letters this
morning we counted no less than fYftv-
eight received during the month of
July, thanking us for publishing the