Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-09
uNDERsELLING AMERICAN MADE GOODS ABROAD.


 Yesterday the Review spoke of the farmer and the tariff. It is well to consider these things at some length. for they concern every American clti. zen. and daily rob him of so much of the wealth that should remain in his pocket. and should not be taken from him to enrich the rich.
 The question is frequently asked, how il is possible to pay American wages and ocean freights and then sell al less to the Englishman than ia the home market? Well, let us see a moment. It has been stated upon good authority that the Trust could make steel rails for SIP per ton. Add $500 for profit, or 25 per cent, and we have price for steel rails of s15, and yet the price has been arbitrarily fixed by the trust at BPS to American con sumers. and this unchangeable and outrageous profit and price destroyed all foreign competition, there being 10 record of any rails imported into this country during the year 1903.
 The Germans and the Belgiars, who furnished the same character of gocGs 10 Mexico and South Africa at s24 pe- ton, including ocean freights, were by tariff duties prohibited. by tariff du ties to the amount of s7s0 per ton, from entering this rich field of com merce. The American manufacturer, in order to receive BPS per ton, had only 10 add the s5 per ton freight that would have to be paid by a foreign competitor, and the s7.S0 under theI Dingley tariff bill to his legitimate price of SIS per ton, to make s2750I per ton. which is only 50 cents lecsI than his fixed price
 From this We are forced to the con clusion that the whole amount of .heI duty now levied on this class of goods is gobDled up at the expense of the American consumers by the trusts and manufacturers. and that in this manner the American consumer Isl robbed on the hundreds of millions of collars for steel rails used by our rail- ways And right here let us say that this enormous profit to the trusts and manufacturers is not only tax on the railroads, bnt it is likewise a tax or the whole American people; morel largely on the farmers whose freight must be fixed by the railroad with al view of discharging this enormous debt; and, too, this debt will prove az intending burden. This generation will pay the interest on the bonds is- sued to cover this extra cost of cor struction, and when We have all passed away the same bonds will be reissued. and our children will be taxed in 2 like manner to pay the interest on inc same, and so on through all of the generations to come
 From these figures it is perfectly clear that on every ton of rail sold the manufacturers or trusts realize above legitimate profit s13 per ton. and va -~1 xo. e-,rvr;rad +ba, +ba-- aro -harahv enabled to destroy foreign competi- ton. Suppose they sell 400 tons at SIS profit to American consumers. VIC find that they realize s5.200. Then, should they sell 400 tons. the same amount. 70 the English railway at s10 per ton, being g less than first cost. they would lose $500. By deductirg $500 losses from the s5,200 profit, we fad that the seller realizes the net sTm of s4.400 profit on 800 tons of raIs, plus the satisfaction of having infIic'- cd a deadly blow to their foreign com pettor.
 This method of gathering profits from home consumers and destroying foreign competition is as true to all the iron and steel schedules of .he Dingiey law, and Is likewise true as 70 all the agricultural implements and machinery. the sale price of which Is fixed by the harvester trust, organized under the name of the Internationa! Harvester company. chartered under the laws of New Jersey in 1892 with a capital stock of s12o.ooo. 900. and is composed of six or more independent companies. This combination largely