Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-16

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 ad-
vertised in the New York papers an
offer Of $100 reward for copy of the
export price list of the big Peabody
concern. After much effort they Sc
cured a 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
it 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 busi-
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. 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 / was par
ticular to ask what the Englishmen paid
for American farming machinery, pitch
forks, hatchets and other necesSaries of
farm management, and / found that they
paid a great deal less than l 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
uluCn lOWGT rate IL ID Lllt II5A tdl Ill
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. The
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 to lower the tariff. which would give
the American consumer an opportunity to
purchase American goods at a decreased
price. and If 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 it much longer. Something is
radically wrong when l can buy Ameri-
can shoes abroad for less than l pay for
them here, Notwithstanding the fact that
freight for 5000 miles has to be paid upon
them.
At the Mercy of Pierpont.
To this extremity hath it come at
last Morgan is now in such posi-
ton, placed there by government that
permits the formation of trusts and the
merging of vast railroad interests.
that the financial world has to fall at
his feet and ask for relief when riot
Gus speculation and inflated valuations
have brought Wall street to the verge
of panic. OF course If panic We're
threatened while 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 26.-J. 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
payments, it is estimated. will approx
mate $14.000. 900. This action is taken tc
help relieve existing finanssal conditions,
The United States Steel corporation an
nounced today that 1t would mail checks
tomorrow for the quarterly dividend on
its common stock. due Sept 80. and that
the checks would be payable Sept. 29
The sum of the quarterly dividend is
S.. .0S3025. and that sum will be released to
the money market.
Justice Brewer as a Brush Burner.
Associate Justice David j. Brewer
is undoubtedly a success on the SUI
preme bench, as his opinion on the an
constitutionality of the Philippine an
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
zeal. To those who imagine the aver
age supreme court justice to be some
thing far removed from the stage of
ordinary men, a something sacred and
apart, the following press dispatch
will prove q revelation:
Justice David ]. Brewer Of the United
States supreme court was quite badly
burned about the face and hands at his
Champlain. last evening. Judge Brewer
has remained longer at the >Point than
have the other cottagers ahK>was clean
ing up some brush about his cottage,
Liberty Hall. He used small amount of
gasoline to make the brush burn and was
in the act of lighting the pile when the
accident occurred. His burns were
promptly attended to. and with good
nursing he hopes to be out in few days
without scars.
The moral of this really regrettable
accident to Justice Brewer is-Every
man to his own work.
Applied RepubIicanism.
Nature endowed the state of Illinois
most bountifully and made her a great
state. | have said in these letters a
good deal about applied Democracy"
a fine example of which is found in
Missouri. There is no finer test of a
states real progress than can be found
in the record of her schools. Missouri
is justly proud of her school system,
built up and fostered by Democrats.
The school attendance is large and con-
stantly gaining, and she has the largest
per capita cash school fund possessed
by any state in the Union. Texas has
what will probably prove a larger
fund, but it is now in the form of un-
sold lands.
The Chicago Record-Herald pub
fishes an interview with Mrs. Florence
Kelley. Mr.. William E. Curtis secured
the interview. In it Mrs. Kelley calls
attention to the fact that in 1890 lii
nois stood sixth among the states as
to the percentage of children of
school age in the schools. The 1900