Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13
HOLD-UP GAME
figures Of Prices On Goods Exported
Expose Republican Protection Policy.

For a Republican paper the New
York Sun take n sensible view of the
recent large increase in the export OF
American manufactured goods, for It
declares that while the showing IS en-
couraging, there is no occasion as yet
| to point with PRIDE to the rec0fdA
cases. the SIM observes that in none
Is the increase greater than the sales
of one good sized concern.
But the Sun omits 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
were sold to the foreign consumer at
much lower prices than our Deonle at
home have to pay for identical arti-
cles. For instance. the Sun shows that
our export of agricultural indictments
has increased from S 5000. 00n to SOL
100000. This seems at first thought II
most extraordinary gain. but it is not
so when we consider that agricultural
indictments made in this country are
sold in Europe Mt from ten to twenty
three per cent. less than the same i'm
Elements ran DO bought for here. A
churn. either cylinder or Thermometer.
is sold abroad t~wenty-three ner cent.
cheaper than Mt home: n corn-Shpltar
is sold abroad twenty per cent. cheap
e. than at home: grain mills thorsel
eleven per cent. cheaper: ~cultivatnrs
fharrowl. twenty-three per cent. cheap-
er: e%ultivators handl. seventeen per
cent. cheaper. What is true of agri-
cultural indictments is likewise true
of hardware. our exports of which
have increased in value by several mill
lion dollars. American-made hardware
of every description Is sold to the ppo-
pie Of Europe at prices far below
what our own people are obliged TO
nay. For example. spirit levels can he
bought in Europe thirty per cent.
cheaper than they can be bought here:
tube serapers can be had abroad at
prices averaging thirty-three per cent.
less than the prices asked at home:
augur bit sticks, twenty per cent:
drilling machines. fifteen per cent:
breast drills. thirty-three per cent:
hammers, crowbars and sIedges. elev-
N per cent: butcher saw WIS. thirtv-fve
per cent; spades and shovels, thirty.
three per cent: eagle horse plows.
twenty-five per cent; NJ. 3. chilled
plows, seventeen per cent.
In our export Of engines and boilers
there has also been a large increase,
but this is due to a considerable ex-
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 per cent. below the prices asked
at home.
A representative of the Democratic
National Committee made an accurate
estimate of tho value of a single cargo
about to be shipped from New York
to South Africa. This cargo was nut
on board by the firm of Funch. Eyde
& Co.. of New York. and it cost the
buyers in South Africa S212.56I. The
same cargo. had it been sold to BUYERS
in New York. would have cost S2+G,-
045. Thus. on a cargo of this one
small steamer (of only 2S70 tons regis
teri a rebate of s33,4S1 was made in
favor of foreigners.
In other words. owing to the Repuh-
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 S333,4S1, or
1871 per cent. more than the trusts are
glad to sell the same goods for to buy
ers on the other side of the globe. If,
on a cargo of one little steamer, Amer
leans are mulcted in such an amount.
it is perfectly clear THAT in the case Of
exports running into the millions Of
dollars. the money practically filched
from the pockets of home consumers
would be tremendous.
No wonder some people speak of the
Dingley tariff as the "robber tariff"