Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-10-08
THEY HAVE TWO PRICES
Protected Goods Sold For Less
Abroad Than at Home.
TROUBLE FOR AGENTS OF TRUSTS
tndisputable Evidence which Up.ess
Their Denial That They Place Their
Manufactures on the Foreign Mar
kets mt Prices Away Below Those
Charged Home Consumers.


The export prices of our protected
manufacturers which are being pub
nshed by the Democratic congressional
committee are making trouble for the
trusts and their agents and dealers in
this country. These special prices, far
below those charged at home, are re-
turning TO haunt our manufacturers
who are guilty of this crime against
our citizens.
Some of the agents of the protected
manufacturers are denying that the
goods are sold TO foreigners at the low
prices quoted and are asking the Dem
ocratic editors who have quoted these
prices to correct their statements That
there may be no dispute about these
export prices the Democratic campaign
book contains fifteen pages OF price
lists and cuts reproduced by photo
graphic process from four different cN-
port journals These journals circulate
"a foreign countries only, and one of
them. the Exporters and Importers
Journal, with its special discount sheet,
WAS obtained from foreign country
in answer TO the reward of 500 offered
for il.
The prices quoted in these export
Journals are usually retail prices, as is
explained. and special extra dis
counts" are given for carload orders
or large regular orders for shipment
TO special markets" Special markets"
here means markets farther away than
the countries from which these jour
mails were obtained. Thus, as n rule,
the trusts get the highest prices for
Goods sold for delivery in the city or
state where they are manufactured.
Slightly lower prices are charged on
goods going TO remote parts of this
country and especially TO Hawaii and
Porto Rico, which are being weaned
gradually from the very low prices
with which they were favored before
our tariff wall inclosed them. Consid-
erably lower prices are given to Cana
dams and Mexicans and very low
prices 10 West Indians and South and
Central Americans. The lowest prices
are given TO South Africans and TO
Australasians although Europeans also
usually get bottom prices.
The following from Arkell. & Dou-
glas' South African market report of
Feb l. 1902. is authority for some ex-
port prices:
Present price on barb wire, IL
gauge regular. is $3.50. with usual dis
count OF , per cent. The price
FOR annealcd vanished wire is S135
FOR q to . gauge and galvanized SL65
per 100 pounds, both exact weights,
neSted in carload lots
The price Of nails is easier, and we
quote today S1.S0 per keg in carload
lots OF 800 kegs or more, this price
being for the basis sizes of 20 to GO
pennyweight. Wire nails are now
S1.4O per 100 pounds"
Borax. 73i cents in America; 2I5 in
England; duty, cents.
The present price Of American borax
in England is obtained from Mr.. En-
nest Fleming, an importing manufac-
turer and exporter Of borax, soda, etc,
of Weaverham, Cheshire, England.
Mr.. Fleming was accused Of attempt
Ing 10 defraud the government by i'm
porting borax duty, cents per pound
as washing crystal duty % per
cent, or about 4 quarter Of a cent per
pound. He came to this country 10
test the matter and in July, 1902. was
arrested. tried and eXonerated on the
charge. He was greatly astonished TO
So" the close connection between the
government and the trusts. In fact.
he could scarcely distinguish between
the two. In his letters of Aug. 10.
1902, TO the Democratic congressional
committee he SAYS:
The present price of borax (refned)
in England is 2iA cents Il pound In
America il is IA cents per pound-iust
the difference of the tariff, cents per
pound. HUpdredS Of carloads i'm the
United States are used every week, no
less than SiXty-siX different trades be
Ing dependent more or less on this one
article. The trust makes 81. 100000
profit per annum out OF the people of
the United States. The trust
controls millions of tons of borax and
bcrate material in the United States.
although the consumption in the Unit
ed States is only 10000 tons per an
mum. and If competition were allowed
by the government the people could
nave the stuff at cents per pound.
In their frantic efforts to preserve the
profit the trust resorted to the arrest
or myself. On Wednesday, July 16
1902. l was arrested at the federal
building, New York, in the office Of
the United States Assistant District
Attorney Baldwin Immediately after
conference between Zabriskie & An
derson, representatives of the borax
trust, with the assistant district at
torney. have n letter to my brother
showing that the arrest was made in
accordance with orders direct from
Washington. At the examination Of
the case at the appraisers stores on
Thursday, July 10, DR.. jacob and his
assistant, borax trust chemists. were
present During the three DAYS trial
Zabriskie. the borax trust representa-
tive. sat at the elbow of the United
States assistant district attorney. con-
stantiy prompting him and egcing him
on to do his best to convict"
BYRON w. HOLT.
Unreliable Statistics.
That the Republicans at the head OF
Tie various bureaus in Washington oc-
caSionally suppress or distort unpleas-
ant statistics is true, but we can never
expect 10 have reliable statistics while
protection is on the throne and can
continue its rule only by deceiving the
people. Our so called balance of
trade" about which the Republicans
arc continually growing, exists only OH