Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-01-02


kets mt Prices Away below Those
+ Charged Home COnsun.=rs-
The export prices OF our protected
manufacturers which are being pub
lished by the Democratic congressional
committee are making trouble for the
trusts aud 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 foreign country
in answer to the reward of 500 offered
for 1t.
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 a rule.
the trusts get the highest prices for
goods sold for delivery in the city or
state where they are manufacture
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. Constd-
erably lower prices are given to Cana
dams and Mexicans and very low
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-
elas' South African market report OF
Feb 1. 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 annealrd vanished wire is $1.35
for TO . gauge AID galvanized SI.G5
per 100 pounds. 10th exact weights,
ncsted In carload lots.
The price of nails is easier, and We
quote today $3.50 per keg in carload
lo's OF 300 kegs or more, this price
being for the basis sizes OF 20 TO co
heavyweight. Wire nails are now
Sl.4O per 100 pounds"
BOraX. IA cents in America; pa In
England: duty. cents.
The present price of American borax
In England is obtained from Mr.. Err.
nest Fleming, an importing manufac-
/ turer and exporter of borax, soda. etc.
or Weaverham, Cheshire, England.
/ MI FlemlnS was accused OF attempt-
ing 10 defraud the government by i'm
porting borax duty, 3 cents per pound
as washing crystal duty % per
cent. or about n quarter of n cent Der
| pound. He came to this country To-
test the matter and in July, 1902 was
arrested. tried and exonerated on the
charge. He was greatly astonished to
-" the close connection between the
N no
he could scarcely distinguish between
the TWO. In his letters of Aug. 10,
l9O2, to the Democratic congressional
committee he says:
The present price OF borax (refined
In England is 21k cents a pound. In
America 1t is ~ cents per pound-just
the difference Of the tariff, 5 cents Der
pound Hundreds of carloads in 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 .OOC
proht per annum out of the people OF
the United States. - The trust
controls millions of tons of borax and
Dorate 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 |
pront the trust reSorted to the arrest |
or myself. On Wednesday, July 16. |
ISOz, was arrested at the federal |
building, New York, I'm the office of
the United States Assistant District |
Attorney Baldwin Immediately after a
conference between Zabriskie & An
oerson, representatives of the horax
trust. with the assistant district at
torney. have a letter 20 my brother
showing that the arrest was made 10
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-.