The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-10-05

The Standard Oil Co. can sell oils
cheaper 10 foreigners because tho
United State, pays il over 81 OGo00O. u
yea IA lriwba duties Oh the tin
used IA .he cans in which goods are ex.
ported. Why should Uncle sam be 20
partial IN foreigners? There are but
TWO explanations. and. be il said To
MIR Mckinley's credit. they are both
entirely consistent with modern pro-
tectoni>t theories. III the foreigner
pays our tariff taxes. Of course he
should bc favored, II there is any favor
itisin. a. 10 prices. Mckinley himself
would readily concede that IL we paid
our own tariff taxes we should be the
first To enjoy the special favors con-
ferred by the protected manufacturers
Then. again. cheap goods are abhor-
rent To protectionists- President liar
rison told " that a cheap coat makes a
cheap man. Mckinley says: Cheap
| never liked the word Cheap and
nasty 20 together. Cheap merchan-
disc means cheap men and cheap men
mean a cheap country Our manu-
facturcrs may dump cheap goods at
the door Of the economic foreigner,
bul tltN >lDull iiDt dSA dtN >tiI-
respecting American TO degrade him
self by purchasing the same goods at
the same prices paid by foreigners
Henry Cabot Lodge settled this point
forever when he said, in 1890: The cry
for cheapness i un-American."
But. 10 return 10 the article in ques-
tion. The Journal Of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin prints the figures
of an actual bill of sale of "A typewriter
sent TO Nollendo. Peru. This machine
was sold for s7s.fa. although the re-
porter who visited the typewriter head.
quarters. in New York. could not pur-
chase similar one for less than sl0a.5O
although he was prepared 10 pay cash.
II is stated on good authority that the
cost To manufacture these typewriters
is but Sis To $40.
The reporter mentions another case
''even more glaring than in the case of
typewriters." lie was told the following
by a commission merchant on the west
side My wife recently purchased a
sewing machine for $50. II was good
machine. and we did not complain of the
price, but shortly after friend of ours
who lives in san Domingo came to visit
Us. and seeing my wife's machine con-
cluded 10 get one like it. went to
the salesrooms with him and was sur
priscd to find that he could purchase a
machine similar to my wifes for
So. so The seller would not deliver
the machine TO US. but had il boxed.
addressed and shipped on board the
steamer. This. | understood, was done
to prevent Americans from coming To
the store. buying machines at the ex-
port discount. on the explanation that
they were foreigners, and then keeping
the machine, for use in this country.
The reporter adds that: AT one time
il wa, quite common practice To pur-
chase machines. box them and take
them TO the dock of a steamer about to-
sail for some foreign country. and then
send draw around To unload and car
ry the machines back to the city Just
before sailing. In this way the export
price could be obtained and the ma
chimes be used in this country. IL is
understood. however. that at present
manufacturers and sellers have made
arrangements To effectually put stop
to this practice"
Dozens of other articles arc men,
toned and the prices stated at which
each is sold in our own and in foreign
markets. Saws. shovels. cultvators
and nearly all kinds Of tools and inn
plemcnts are sold at from Is to 80 per
cent. less To foreigners. A cheap type
writer fold for SIS in New York Is ex-
ported To South America at 81. Safes
are exported at about half what they
can be had for in our own markets.
One sold here for $50 can be had on
board an outgoing foreign steamer at
Sill. A one-column article in the Jour
nal of Commerce and Commercial Bull
letin was devoted to the export prices
of coal Pennsylvania coal sold for
export To the West Indies and Mexico
for slo0 per ton. j. so"' in New York
at the monopoly price of 80.
1t makes one feel las il il were q
crime to be an American" as one Of
the victims Of this mons trous fraud ex-
pressed himself To the reporter. If
even one-tenth of the 66. 900. coo victims
Of protection could have personal cx-
perence with the special discounts
for export" Mckinley's hopes would
not only vanish Immediately. but a
war on trusts would be begun that
would soon annhilate the worst Of
Tenders in the pernicious business.
The putting of agricultural imple-
ments and machinery on the free list
and the reductions of many duties in
the new tariff bill will undoubtedly
stop entirely or greatly lessen. the
evils Of the system: but much remains
To be done. All duties that foster mo-
nopolies must be entirely abolished.
BYRON W. HoLr.