Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-02
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~ i'sctrt1is seSt,a s>'~ y hich .aaa. IA,
e'anS Manufacturers Need 10 Pro.rc-
tica-
W response &c inquiries addressed &c
manufacturers by the house. commit.
tee on WAYS and mcaps soncerainy the
eNpediency Of making agreements with
foreign countries for reciprocal trade
many interesting sta temen Is have been
received i'm Washington. We direct at
tenticn to brief extracts from some of
them as bearing upnn the question
whether certain Industries need TO be
protected in their home market bv tar-
if duties designed TO prevent the i'm
prr,ation of foreign goods like thos,
which TREY produce. We take the fol.
lowing from the Iron Ages reports of
the responses relating TO branches of
abe iroa and steel industry:
Disston 6 Sons, saws, files. etc:
Value OF annual pyc1uct. So. 500 ON
On- foreign trade i - per cent. Of our
total business. Our output is 20 Der
cent greater than SIX years aro."
Ii. T. Nail Co.. wire nails. ''Have ex,
~ ed through agents in New Yor.tg
"a now c ''npete with any quality and
price with fOreirncrs"
Baldwin Locomotive works: 1--WE
compete with foreign manufacturer
in quality and price, our locomotives
being preferred in some countries
Nicholson File Co.; Market both
az home and abroad. In all foreign
eodutries yye meet competition from
English flies. and from German file, i'm
many countries. We should be very
much as listed by an increase in QUE
own tariff"
Filler .S Stoweu Co, steam engines
and sawmii machinery: Ten per
cent. of our product goes abroad, sold
direct"
X. II. Firquhar Co. agricultural
implements, engines and III lchinery:
ABOUT ore-ihir,t of our product goes
abroad sometimes o1e-half"
Chattanoo "a PlOw CO.: ''About one
ffth of our market is foreign, aud we
sell direct alto rether"
Moline Plow Co: oar annual out
put is 100000. Five to ten per sent
of it goes abroad"
Johnston Harvester Co, harvesting
machinery and agricultural imple-
ETents< Our ira &c extends to all ma
lions of Europe"
Miller Lock Co: About % per cent.
of our pro1uct goes abroad. If -
per cent of American locks could be
exported at lowest home prices, our
factories could run full at fair profits.
American prices of locks are NV enough
in cost TO compete abroad. We lack
facilities for exports"
\ manufacturer in this country who
regularly sells his goods abroad, thus
meeting and overcoming the COMPETE
ton OF foreign manufacturers in their
own Countries, needs no tar.M prOtec-
tion Whatever TO give him an ndvan-
tage over these same foreign manu-
tacturers here in his own home mar
k"t. For example, our manufacturers
of nails who were able TO sell 2I. 600 -
600 mounds of their PRODUCTS last wear
IN Europe and other foreign lands,
thus overcoming there the COMPETE
ton OF foreign nailmalxers without
the aid of a tariff d irsrcnce and under
The disadvantages of transatlantic
freight charges, can much IN IRE easily
untersell the foreign nailmaxers here
IN the United States, with no Amcri-
can tariff whatever on forei IN nails.
The imperative duty on nails is -
per cent.
Our leading manufacturers of saws
say, as quoted above. that they sell
one-fifth of their product abroad. But
the tariff is p per cent. for circular
saws and from six 10 ten cents per
foot for other kinds These rates are.
OF course, practically prohibitorv, and
no part of them is needed for protec-
ton But the republican party pro-
poses 70 increase them, and the manu-
facturers, we underst and, would like
To have them Increased. prominent
hle company admits that it sells goods
abroad and meets competition" in
many foreign countries. Yet il saws
Shat it would be Every much assisted
by an increase in our own tariff"
which is now g.. 90 per cent!
Everybody knows that for wears
large quantities of agricultural imple-
ments and machinery have been ex-
ported from this country and sold
abroad. The extracts quoted above
point To this fact. But when il was
proposed that the duties on these i'm
elements should be removed, the re-
publicans declared that the repeal of
them would ruin the American man,r-
facturers. The duties were cut off a
year and half ago-exeept with re-
Spect TO imports from coun tries where
similar duties are in force-and the
Alanuf Acturers are still not only sup
plying the domestic demand, bit also
making large sales abroad Our ex-
port trade should be fostered and de-
veloped by wise and equitable legisla-
fion, bus manufacturers who sell large
quantities of goods for export must
rot expect that the bearing of such a
srade movement upon protective tart fl
duties will be overlooked.-N. Y.
Times