The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-04-19
TAXING OURSELVES.
In the Poor Foreigner 10 so.e.
thing Wonderful.

A most philanthropic policy Is this
Of ours-this' taxing ourselves for the
benefit of the foreigner. A time was
once when the philanthropic charac-
ter OF this policy could not he DEM
onstrated, but that time il long since
past. Example after example can now
be marshaled TO prove our unselfish
interest in the poor foreigner who
will consent to use our goods. To IL
lustrate this, we will take the iron
industry. We take this only because
there is a movement on DOT among
the more liberal republicans to open
il up to foreign competition because
it is in a trust. A well-known con.
tractor of New York, Charles 4 hullen
by name, obtained a contract from
the Russian government 10 furnish
steel rails for q portion of the great
Trans-Siberian railroad. He sought
prices from the Federal Steel com
pany, which gave him s35 per ton,
with freight charges to be added.
This price, so far as Mr.. Thullen was
concerned, was prohibitive. He went
TO the Carnegie Steel company, but
could not get the price shaved. In
despair he went TO England and sub
let his contract to an English Arm.
for prices and obtained the phenom-
email figures Of $24 per ton delivered in
Russia. The deal was closed and the
rails sold by the English firm 10 Mr..
Thullen at $35 per ton delivered IN
Russia. Mr.. Thullen was thus en-
abled to 60 on with his contract after
being compelled to pay a British firm
a bonus of 81 per ton because ne was
so unfortunate as to be an American
citizen.
The question suggests itself to
many ordinary minds, how can these
steel companies sell TO a foreigner
steel rails $11 cheaper than to an
American and deliver them in Russia
to boot? There must be something
~"rotten in the state of Denmark"
when the home market is taxed to
such an extent in order that the for
eigner may buy at his own price. Or,
is il philanthropy? We are. however,
not alone in this work of relieving the
foreigner. Germany, which has adopt
ed the American idea of tariff, is enc
gagged to a great extent in the same
charitable business.
Herr Krupp and Baron Won Stumm
have, under the German tariff laws, .
monopoly of the armor plate indus
try. They hold up that government
for $3.50 per ton, which is 500 more
than the steel companies of the Unit
ed States are able to get out Of Uncle
Samuel. And to make the hold-up
more apparent it appears that Herr
Krupp and Mr.. Harry receive a roy
atty OF $3.50 per ton on the Amer
lean manufactured plate. This juicy
monopoly allows the German armor
plate trust to Compete in the mar
kets Of the world" Not Jones, in
this case, but the German nation
pays the freight. On account Of this
extortion the German reichstag pro-
poses either TO remove the tariff or
construct government works. as the
difference would amount to the enor-
nous sum Of $4,000. 900 in the con-
struction Of the proposed new navy
Of the empire.
In the face OF many such demon
STATIONS OF the workings of a tariff
law that is out Of date, the great
majority Of the republican States
men" are dead against the Babcock
bill TO remove the tariff from iron and
steel products. Wonderful. indeed,
are the workings Of the human mind
81. Paul Globe.