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man brought home on his feet pair
of new shoes. He bought them in
London, but they were of American
manufacture, and. though freight had
been paid on them to London and a
travelling salesman's expenses had to
be paid across the Atlantic to sell the
shoes, yet Senator Harris bought them
for 20 per cent less than the same
shoes would have cost him in Wash
ington. He knows this to be true, be-
cause he priced the same kind Of shoes,
made by the same firm, on Pcnnsyl-
yania avenue, and found the price to
be 20 per cent higher than In London.
This Is merely one of hundreds of
proofs that the American manufacture
ers sell at lower prices in Europe than
In America.
A few weeks ago the Democratic
congressional campaign committee adj
vertised in the New York papers an
offer of 500 reward for copy of the
export price list of the big Peabody
concern. After much effort they Sc
cured copy and published many ex-
tracts from it showing that hundreds
of articles of everyday use were sold
by them in Europe from 10 to 100 per
cent cheaper than they would sell the
same articles in America. OF course
it doesn't take smart man to cipher
1t out that they sold them cheaper
there because they had to do so,
that they charged high prices here
because the high tariff permitted it
and that they would not have sold
these articles in Europe as cheaply as
they did if they did not find the bust
ness profitable. If they can make mon
ey there, for heavens sake, how much
do they make by skinning those poor
Americans who so dearly worship their
high tariff that they would rather con.
tribute toward making every Amer
lean manufacturer a Millionaire than
vote against it.
What pity it is that every fellow
can't regulate his own tariff! The free
trader would speedily be buying his
shoes at the low rate paid by Senator
Harris. 1 wonder if the high tariff men
would show enough devotion to "pro.
lection" to continue to pay the Penn.
sylvania avenue price for their shoes.
Senator Harris in an interview said:
Everything Of American make is cheap
er abroad than In this country. My work
for the St. Louis exposition took me to
all the great stock farms. and vas par
ticular to ask what the Englishmen paid
for American farming machinery, pitch
forks. hatchets and other necessares OF
farm management. and / found that they
paid a great deal less than am forced to
pay in Kansas City for the same articles.
1t seems very great injustice and i'm
position for American citizens to be
forced to pay such high prices here when
foreigners secure the same things at a
much lower rate 1t is the high tariff
that is to blame. The American manu-
facturer says that he must be protected
against the foreigner. This is not true.
He has nothing to fear from the foreign
manufacturer, because he is successfully
invading the foreign market Neither Is
it true that the American goods which
are sold abroad are surplus products Ehe
American manufacturer is selling his
goods at fair profit abroad and at a
tremendous profit at home.
1t seems to me that it would be very
easy ta lower the tariff, which would give
the American consumer an opportunity to
purchase American goods at a decreased
price. and. II necessary. the American
manufacturer could raise the price Slight
ly abroad. Something, however. ought to
be done. The present condition OF affairs
is not just to the American consumer,
and do not believe the American people
will stand 1t much longer. Something is
radically wrong when l can buy Ameri-
r,l,1 o1,y fo, NO., I FDr
them here. notwithstanding the fact that
freight for 1000 miles has to be paid upon
them.
At the Mercy Of Plerpont.
To this extremity hath it come at
last. Morgan is now in such posi-.
ton, placed there by a government that
permits the formation of trusts and the
merging of vast railroad interests,
that the financial world has to fall at
Ills feet and ask for relief when riot
Gus speculation and inflated valuations
have brought Wall street to the verge
of panic. OF course # panic were
threatened while q Democrat sat in the
White House we are free to guess as
to whether Morgan would come for
ward with the advance payments. The
Associated Press chronicles the event
in the following:
New York. Sept. 81. P. Morgan & Co.
today notified the Shareholders of the va
rious companies and corporations for
which they act as fiscal agents that they
would anticipate October interest and
coupon payments next Monday, two days
in advance of the required time. These
nav rfc 10 afod vI;l1 wi
mate s14,oooooo. This action is taken to
help relieve existing financial conditions.
The United States Steel corporation an
nounced today that Il WOULD mail checks
tomorrow for the quarterly dividend on
its common stock. due Sept. &c. and that
the checks would be payable Sept. 20.
The sum of the quarterly dividend is
$5.0S3,0 and that sum will be released to
the money market.
Justice Brewer as Brush Burner.
Associate Justice David J. Brewer
is undoubtedly success on the su-
preme bench, as his opinion on the an
eopstitutionality Of the Philippine an
nexation ably testifies. He is q Re-
publican Of the Lincoln type-a type.
by the way, that is rapidly becoming
extinct. However, able justice though
he be, he has evidently not studied the
intricacies Of the festive gasoline can
and the peculiar habits Of that chem
ical. To those who imagine the aver
age supreme court justice to be some
thing far removed from the stage Of
ordinary men. something sacred and
apart, the following press dispatch
will prove a revelation:
Justice David ]. Brewer of the United
states supreme court was quite badly