Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-11-12
THEY HAVE TWO PRICES
Protected Goods Sold For Less
Abroad Than 81 Home.
TROUBLE FOR AGENTS OF TRUSTS

indisputable Evidence which upsets
Their Denial That They Place Their
Mauufncturcs on the Foreign Mar
kets at 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 10 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 10 foreigners mt the low
prices quoted and are asking the Dem
ocratic editors who have quoted these
prices 10 correct their statements. That
there may &c 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 eN-
bort journals. These journals circulate
n foreign countries only. and one of
them. the Exporters and Importers
Journal with its 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" Special 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 TO Hawaii and
/ Porto Rico. which are being weaued
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 Ncxicans and very low
/ prices to West Indians and South and
Central Americans. The lowest prices
are given to South Africans and to
Australnsians. although Europeans also
usually get bottom prices.
The following from Arkell X Dou-
glas' South African market report OF
Feb. 1, 1902. is authority for some ex-
port prices:
Present price on barb wire. l.
gauge regular. is $3.50, with usual dis
count OF per cent. The price
for anncaled vanished wire is S1.35
for 6 TO . gauge and galvanized S1.65
per 100 pounds, both exact weights.
nested in carload lots.
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 90 TO 60
pennyweight. Wire nails are now
$1.40 per 100 pounds"
Borax, ia cents in America; 2Is 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 Weavcrham, 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 n 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
seq 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 (refined)
In England is 2l5 cents n pound. In
America it is "a cents per pound-just
the difference OF the tariff, cents per
pound. HYdreds of carloads I'm the
United States are used every week, no
less thsn sixty-six different trades be-
Ing der sndent more or less on this one
article The trust makes $3.50, COO
profit fer annum out OF the people OF
the United States. - The trust
controls millions OF tons of borax and
borate material In the United States.
although the consumption In the Unit
ed States is only 10000 tons per an
nur1, and If competition were allowed
by the government the people could
have the stuff at cents per pound.
in their frantic efforts to preserve the
proGt the trust resorted to the arrest
OF myself. Or Wednesday. July 16
1902, / 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 a 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-
stantly prompting him and egging him
on 20 do his best TO convict"
BYRON w. HOLT.
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