The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-02

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quently try to make political capital by
claiming that the protective tariff is re-
sponsihle for the fact that our exporters
in some cases sell their merchandise at
less than prices charged in the home
market.
1t is the very root Of success in ALI
commercial ventures to hold what o
have and gain what you can, and this
is the same in all highly advanced COM
mercial nations, including England, where
free trade prevails. Whenever a mama
facturer has produced more goods :.han
he can dispose Of in the home market,
without d~isastrously affecting prices. it
is always good cuisines policy for him TO
try to get rid Of his surplus abroad rath-
er than to reduce his output and Incl
dentaily the number Of men he employs
and the wages he pays them. This
dumping policy. as the Democrats call
it, has again n again served to pre-
vent depression in our home markets and
has saved millions Of dollars in wages
to American workingcnen. 1t is infinite
ly better that the foreigner should occa-
sionally get goods cheaper than they
can be bought ut home. rather than not
have such surplus sold at all. ard .Ameri-
can mills be forced into idleness and
American workingmen into serious loss
in ages
How British manufacturers pursue
this dumping policy just the same as
American manufacturers will do when
the necessity arises. is shown in recens
consular reports. (See circular No. 2067,
Department of Commerce and I.abor.)
Samuel M. Taylor. U. S.. Consul at Glas-
gov, Scotland, says:
Manufactured steel for export Is sold for
. TO 10 per cent less than for domestic rise,
and even at a greater reduction. In other
words. the cost OF transportation to foreign
countries where competition is brisk Is
largely assumed by the British exporter or
manufacturer by means Of this reduction.
Even England Is treated as foreign by the
scotch manufactures and gets reductions
accordingly. The Scotch manufacturer
neither expects nor receives the same profit
on his exports to foreign countries that he
obtains at home. In Scotland a combina-
tian of prices exists which fixes the prices
of steel plate for the whole OF Scotland, ana
gives the meIabers OF the combination
power To sell in other districts than Scot
land, at whatever prices they choose. r
may mention In this connection that an
American sewing machine company, which.
In addition TO having large works in the
United States, has works In Scotland sufa-
Gent to supply the European trade. makes
British consumers pay more for machines
manufactured in Great Britain than Amer
lean cO3cumcrS pay for those manufactured
in the United States.
Rufus Fleming, u. s. Consul at Edin-
burgh, Scotland, says;
1t is the policy of British manufacturers
TO maintain prices In the home market at
the highest possible level and to make what
ever concessions may be necessary III fer
eisn markets. At all times. even when
general trade conditions at home ard abroad
Il are excellent. IN ig Tho Fula i'm British in.
dustry, TO quote lower prices to foreign buy
ers than TO the average domestic trader.
The difference in favor of the foreigner or
exporter ranges from 4 to g per cent. I
have seen Invoices of q British firm of steel
wire manufactures to German buyers In
which the prices were fully 20h per cent
lower than the prices quoted to home Gus
toners. This reduction was not Que 10 an
extraordinary surplus, but principally TO a
determination to put n certain line of goods
into competitive markets; In most trades
the one fixed purpose Is not to reduce
prices TO British customers until forced to
co SO.
4 prominent brewer, an ex-meanber Of
Parliament, said: - --
l have been dumping ale and beer on for
eign markets all my life, whenever / have
had a surplus. Practically every manufac-
turer in this country sells his goods abroad
for the best price they will bring, when
his stock is too heavy to be unloaded at
home in a reasonable time, without break
iHS the HluTktts
James Boyle, u. S. Consul at Liver
pool, England. says:
The most interesting instance Of dumping
In this Consular district of which | have
knowledge. was that of Drummer. Mond IL
Co, chemical manufacturers of Northwicb,
Cheshire. The products involved were soda
ash and bicarbonate OF soda. IL was n dis
tinct policy of this firm to sell their prod
ucts on the American market at a rate
which not only undercut the American
product, but was less than the price in Eng
fish markets. This went on for some time
until the firm effected an arrangement with
parties, both American and foreign, inter-
ested in the sale of chemicals in the United
States, and then, as / am Informed, became
past owners in chemical factories In SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, and In Michigan. / believe it
is true, even now, that occasionally certain
soda, produced in this aeighherheed, are
sold cheaper in the United States than in
| this market. i am Informed that certaiA
other manufacturers, like the wellknown
| firm Of Nettlefolds Uimited) Of BirmsnS.
ham, which makes iron and brass and
| wooden screws, often sell abroad cheaper
than at home.
-. Clay Evans, Consul General at
London, England says: Il find that man
ufacturers here endeayor to maintain
home markets, but when they can fine
a foreign market, they will bid for ii.
get it if they can without too great o
loss, and thus increase the demand for
their output and reduce the cost OF pro-
duction without ~demoralizing homo
prices"