The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-28
TIE DUMPING" FOLICY.
IL Prevents Depression md Keeps
Our Workingmen Emroyed.

IL Prevents Depression md Keeps
Our Workingmen Empoyed.
Democratic writers and SPEAKERS fire.
Quently try to make political capital by
claiming that the protective tsrif il re-
sponsible for the fact that our exporters
in some cases sell their merchandise at
less than prices charged in tie home
market.
1t is the very root of success in all
commercial ventures to hold wat you
have and gain what you can, aud this
is the same in all highly advanced com-
mercial nations. including England, where
free trade prevails. Whenever a U~
facturer has produced more goods han
he can dispose Of in the home market,
without disastrously affecting prices, it
is always good business policy for him to
! try to get rid of his surplus abroad ruth
er than to reduce his output and Incl
d~entally the number Of men he employs
and the wages he pays them. Tais
dumping" policy, as the Democrats call
at, has again and again served to pre-
vent depression in our home markets and
has saved millions of dollars in wages
to American workingmen. 1t is infinite
ly better that the foreigner should occa-
sionally get goods cheaper han they
cam be bought at home. rather than not
have slch surplus sold at all, and Ameri-
can mills be forced into idleness and
American w~orkingnlen into serious loss
in wages.
How British manufacturers pursue
this dumping policy just the same as
American manufacturers will do when
the necessity arises, is shown in recent
consular reports. (See circular No. 2O67.
Department of Commerce and Labor.)
Samuel M. Taylor, U. S. Consul at Glas-
gov, Scotland. says:
Manufactured steel for export is sold for
D TO 10 per cent less than for domestic use,
ana even at a greater reduction. In other
words. the cost of transportation to foreign
count $ where competition Is brisk 10
largely assumed by the British exporter or
manufacturer by means OF this reduction.
Even England is treated as foreign by the
accordingly. The Scotch manufactures
neither expects nor receives the same profit
on his exports to foreign countries that he
obtains at home. In Scotland a combina-
ton Of prices exists which fixes the prices
Of steel plate for the whole of Scotland, and
gives the members Of the combination
land, at whatever prices they choose. I
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 sufb-
Gent to supply the European trade. makes
British consumers pay more for machines
manufactured in Great Britain than Amer
lean consumers 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 In for
eign markets. AT all times, even when
general trade conditions at home and abroad
are excellent. it is the rule, in 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 6 per cent. 1
have seen Invoices Of a British firm Of steel
wire manufactures to German buyers in
lower than the prices quoted to home Gus
toners. This reduction was not due to an
extraordinary surplus. but principally to a
determination to put a 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
do SO.
Parliament, said:
l have been dumping ale and beer on for
eign markets all my life, whenever l have
had a surplus, Practically every manufac-
turer In this country sells his goods abroad
for the best price they will bring, when
LIE SIoth ID tOo utdNy " pc uiItpduSu d
home In a reasonable time, without break
ing the market.
James Boyle, u. S. Consul at Liver
pool, England, says:
The most interesting instance of dumping
In this Consular district of which l have
knowledge, was that of Brunner. Mond &
Co, chemical manufacturers Of Northwich,
Cheshire. The products involved were soda
ash and bicarbonate of soda. 1t was a 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
part owners in chemical factories in SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, and in Michigan. ] believe 1t
Is true, even now, that occasionally certain
chemicals, and particularly bicarbonate OF
soda, produced In this neighborhood, are
sold cheaper in the United States than In
| other manufacturers, like the wellknown
firm of Nettlefolds Uimited) Of Birming-
ham, which makes iron and brass and
wooden screws, often sell abroad cheaper
than at home.
II. Clay Evans, Consul General at
London, England says: II find that man.
ufacturers here endeavor to maintain
home markets, but when they can find
a foreign market, they will bid for it,
get it il they can without too great a
loss. and thus increase the demand for
! their output and reduce the cost Of pro-
duction without demoralizing home
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