The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-06-26
sxPoNrs AND TARIFF DUTIES.
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In response 10 inquiries addressed I
Manufacturers bv the house commit,
tee on WAYS and means concerning m
e~pediency OF making agreements wit
foreign countries for reciprocal trade
many interesting statements have bee,
received in Washington. We direc, al
tentlon To brief extracts from some y
them a. bearing upon the question
whether certain industries need 10 4,
protected in their home market bv tar
IN duties designed To prevent the i'm
portation OF foreign goods like those
which they produce. We take the fol.
lowing from the Iron Ages reports OF
the responses relating 10 branches OF
the iron and steel industry:
Dis>ton & Sons, saws. files. etc:
value Of annual product. -. 800. oeO
Dur foreign trade is 20 per cent. Of our
total business Our output is 20 per
cent greater than six years ago.
a. l. Nail Co. wire nails: .lIave ex-
ported through agents in New York.
can now compete with any quality and
price with foreigner
Baldwin Locomotive works. ..lye
compete with foreign manufacturers
in quality and price. our locomotives
being preferred in some countries
Nicholson File Co.: Market both
at home and abroad. In all foreign
countries we meet competition from
English files. and from German rile. in
many countries We should be very
much assisted by an increase in our
own tariff
Filler < >towell Co. steam engines
and sawmill machinery: Ten per
cent Of our product goes abroad. sold
direct
A. b Farquhar Co. agricultural
I'M plement>. engines and machinery: 4
about one-third OF our product goes
ioroad, sometimes one-half"
chattanooga Plow Co.: ,Abou. one
fifth OF our market is foreign. and we
'ell direct altogether
Moline Piow Co. Our annual op.-
MT j. 5000. o0o Five to ten per cent.
4 IL goes abroad
Johnston Harvester 90. harve .tino-
machinery and agricultural imple-
lents: Our trade extends to all ma
ions of Europe"
Miller Lock Co: About % per cent.
orr product goes abroad. II *
err cent OF american locks could Dc
Nportei az lowest home prices. our Z
lctories could run full ut fair profits. {
merican prices Of locks are low enough q
cost % compete abroad. We lack q
'cIlities for exports" ;
A manufacturer in this country who
QUARRY sells his goods abroad. thus !
Getting and overcoming the eompe.i- e
IN OF foreign manufacturers in their i
'n countries. needs no tariff protec- :
'n whatever TO give him an advan- g
&c over these same foreign manu-
etrrers here in his own home mar "
1 Tor example. our manufacturers "
halls, who were able TO sci! u. OO0.- -
pounds OF their products last wear o
Europe and ether foreign lands. \
US overcoming there the COMPETE p'
N Of foreign nailmakers. withou, q
aid OF tariff difference and under n
disadvantages of transatlantic CT
'ight charges. can much more easily tr
dersell the foreign nailmakers here az
the United states. with no Ameri- N
tarin whatever on foreign nails
imperative duty on nails is =, IN
cent
'ur leading manufacturers of saws
(. as quoted above. that they sell DE
fifth Of their produc. abroad. But
tarin IS - per cent for circular
. and fro-i six to ten cents per TIL
Tor other kinds These rates are hi
curse, practically prohibitory. and ov'
part Of them is needed for protee- era
;. But the republican party pro ito
6 10 increase them. and the mana Nc
iurers. we understand would like Wig
lave them Increased 4 prominent The
company admits that it sells goods par
Dad and meets competition" - ice
y foreign countries. Yet II savs tru
II would be very much assisted lev
IN increase in our own tariff. " the
en- IS now 100 per cent. VIII
'erv body knows that for wears The
e quantities Of agricultural impi.1 mos
= and machinery have been ex- ide;
ed from this country and sold slid
'ad The extracts quoted above
! - this fact. But when il was mas
osed that the duties on these I'M. as
tents should be removed. the re- the
leans declared that the repeal Of assc
would ruin the American manu- lica
irers- The duties were cut of a the
and half ago--except with re- Ihe
. 10 imports from countries ,.ha-a list,
ar duties are in force-a,d 80 blin
afacturers are still not only snp- p
" the domestic demand. but also 10
ng large sales abroad our ex- sive
trade should be fostered and de- DIST
'ed by wise and equitable legisla- ley
but manufacturers who sell large that
titles OF goods for export must iey''
xpect that the bearing Of such char
movement upon protective tariff cone
$ will be overlooked. N Y. OF u
$. and
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