Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-10-24
THEY HAVE TWO PRICES
Protected Goods Sold For Less
Abroad Than at Home.
TROUBLE FOR AGENTS OF TRUSTS


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
lished 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 ex-
port Journals. These Journals circulate
in foreign countries only, and one of
them, the Exporters and Importers
Journal, with it's special discount sheet,
was obtained from a foreign country
in answer to the reward of 500 offered
for it.
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" Especial markets"
here means markets farther away than
the countries from which these jour
nails were obtained. Thus, as 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 20 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
prices to 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. 1, 1902, is authority for some ex-
port prices:
Present price on barb wire, 10
gauge regular. is $3.50. with usual dis
count of 2 per cent. >" The price
for annealed vanished wire is $1.35
for 6 to 8 gauge and galvanized $1.6l
per 100 pounds, both exact weights
nested in carload lots. 80"
''The price OF nails is easier, and We
quote today $3.50 per keg in carload
lots OF 800 kegs or more, this price
being for the basis sizes OF 20 to &C
pennyweight Wire nails are now
$1.40 per 100 pounds" atH
Borax, IA cents in America; 255 IL
England; duty, 9 cents. sfea
The present price of American boraS
in England is obtained from Mr.. Er
nest Fleming, an importing manufac
turer and exporter OF borax. soda. etc.
of Weaverham, Cheshire. England
Mr.. Fleming was accused of attempt
ing to defraud the government by i'm
porting borax duty, cents per pound
as washing crystal duty % pei
cent, or about quarter OF a cent pei
pound. He came to this country t
test the matter and In July, 1902, wai
arrested, tried and exonerated on thu
charge. He was greatly astonished t,
see the close connection between tn,
government and the trusts. In fact
he could scarcely distinguish between
the two. In his letters OF Aug. Is
\: 1902, to the Democratic ongressiona
committee he says:
The present price of borax (refined
in England is 21k cents a pound II
America It is 7z cents per pound-jus
the difference cf the tariff, cents pc
pound. Hundreds of carloads in tn
United States are used every week, n
less than sixty-six different trades be
ing dependent more or less on this ON
article. The trust makes 81, ,250,0O
profit per annum out of the people o
the United States *f% The trus
controls millions of tons of borax an,
borate material In the United States
although the consumption in the Unit
ed States Is only 10000 tons per al
mum, and If competition were allowe
by the government the people coul
have the stuff at 2 cents per pound
In their frantic efforts to preserve tn
profit the trust resorted to the arres
of myself. On Wednesday, July II
1902. was arrested at the feders
building, New York, In the Office {
the United States Assistant Distris
Attorney Baldwin Immediately after
conference between Zabriskie Sc Al
derson, representatives of the bora
trust. with the assistant district a
torney- / have letter to my broth,
showing that the arrest was made |
accordance with orders direct fro
Washington. At the examination
the case at the appraisers stores G