The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-10-12
HOLD-UP GAME.
Figures Of Prices on G,ods Exported
Expose Republican Profession Polio.

hAPVSs nsPuuHsan AAOlSsI0i AOLSH
For a Republican paper the New
York Sun take q sensible view OF the
recent large increase in the export oe
American manufactured goods. for it
declares that while the showing is en-
couraging. there is no occasion as yet
to point with pride 10 the record.
Great as the increases are in certain
cases. the Sun observes that in none
is the increase greater than the sales
of one good-sized concern.
But the sun onits to state that In
some of the instances OF which it
makes mention. the increase was due
very largely to the fact that the goods
We're sold to the foreign consumer at
much lower prices than our neople at
home have to pay for Identical artf-
cies. For instance the Sun shows that
our export of agricultural indictments
has Increased from $50O0.O0o to S21.-
000.O00. This seems at first thought
most extraordinary gain. but Il Is not
so when we consider that agricultural
indictments made IN this country ar6
sold in Europe Mt from ten tn twenty.
three per cent less than the same inn
Elements caa ba bought for here. A
churn either cylinder or Thermometer,
Is sold abroad twenty-three uer cent.
cheaner than at home: n coru-sheiler
is sold abroad twenty ner cent. cheap
e. than at home: Grain mills Chorsel
eleven Der cent. cheaper: cultivators
Charrowl. twenty-three per cent. cheap
er: cultivators (handD. seventeen per
cent. cheaper. What is true of agri-
cultural implements is likewise true
of hardware. our exports of which
have increased in value ny several mil
lion dollars. American-mnde hardware
or every description Is sold 10 the neo-
Dle of Europe Mt prices far below
what our own neople are obliged to
nay. For example. snirit levels can he
bought In Europe thirty per cent.
cheaper than they can ha houGht here:
tube scraDers can no bad abroad at
nrices averaging thirty-three Der cent.
less than the prices asked at home:
augur bit ,sticks. twenty per cent.
drilling machines. fifteen ner cents
breast drills. thirty-thr"e nor cent.
hammers. crowhars and sled0eS elev-
en- per cent: butcher saws thirtv-fiv6
ner cent: shades and shovels. thirty
three per cent: eagle hors" plows.
twenty-five ner cent: Nc. f. chilled
plnws. seventeen ner cent
In orr eXnort of engines and boilers
there has also been n large increase,
hut this IS due RI considerable ex4
tent to the fact that these and other
articles coming under the head Of ma
chinery are sold abroad at prices rang
ing between twenty-three and thirty
eight Der cent. below the prices asked
at home.
A representative of the Democratic
National Committee made an accurate
estimate of tho value If single cargo
about IN be shipped from New York
to South Africa. This cargo was nut
on hoard nv the firm of Ennch. EydS
e Co. of New York. and II cost the
buvers in South Africa S219.564 The
same CARGO. had It hapn sold to buverS
in New York. would have cost $780,
045. Thus. on n cargo NJ this one
small steamer lof only 2S7O tons regis
teri n rebate of S33.4S1 was made In
favor nf foreigners.
In other words. owing to the Repu64
lican high tariff taxes which permit
the trusts to charge high prices to
home consumers without fear of for
eign competition. this one small cargo
cost American consumers S33. 4S1. or
| 1871 ner cent. more than the trusts are.
glad to sell the same goods for TO buv-
ers on the other side OF the globe. If,
on cargo of one little steamer. Amer
leans are rulcted in such nm amount.
1t is perfectly clear that in tho case of
exnorts running into the millions Of
dollars. the money practically fIched
| from the rockets OF home consumers
would be tremendous.
No wonder some people snenk NJ the
Dingley tariff as the "robber tariff"