The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-22
TIE DUMPING POLICY.
It Prevents Depression and Keep
Our Work ingm men Employed.

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It Prevents Depression and Keeps
Our Work ing men Employed.
+ Democratic writers and speakers fire.
quently try to make political capital BY
claiming that the protective tariff is re-
sponsible for the fact that our exporters
in some cases sell their merchandise at
less than prices charged in the home
market. : u ~ \, & 4 .
lit is the very root Of success in all
commercial ventures to hold what you
have and gain what you can, and this
is the same in althighly advanced COM
mercial ma tions, including England, where
: free trade prevails. Whenever atmanu-
facturer has produced more goods than
he can dispose of in the home market,
without disastrously affecting prices, Il
is always good business policy for him to
try to- get rid of his surplus abroad rath-
er than to reduce his output and Incl
dentaly the number Of men he employs
and the wages The pays them. This
dumping. policy, as the Democrats call
it, 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-
sjonally get goods cheaper than they
cam be bought at home, rather than not
! have such surplus sold at all, and Ameri-
can mills be forced into idleness and
American workfngmen 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 NJ. Taylor, U. S. Consul at Glas-
gov, Scotland, says:
to 10 per cent less than for domestic use,
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 manufacturer and gets reductions
accordingly. The Scotch manufactures
neither expects nor receives the same profit
on his exports to foreign countries that he
obtains at homo. In Scotland a combtna-
Of steel plate for the whole of Scotland, and
gives the members Of the combination
power to sell in other districts than Scot.
land, at whatever prices they choose.
may mCnClOn Ill LulS COuuecClOu ludt du
| American sewing machine company, which,
in addition to having large works in the
United States. has works in Scotland sufti-
| cient to- supply the European trade, makes
manufa ctured 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
eign markets. At all times, even when
general trade conditions at home and abroad
are excellent, it is the rule, in British In
dilstry, to quote lower prices to foreign buy
ers than to the average domestic trader.
The difeEen ce in favor Of the foreigner OF
exporter rilYIges from 4 to 6 per cent I
have seen Invoices of 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
I determination to put 4 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.
A prominent brewer, an -ex-member OF
Parliament, said:
have been dumping ale and beer on for
eign markets all my life, whenever 1 have
had a surplus Practically every manufac-
for the best price they will bring, when
his stock is too heavy, to be unloaded at
home in 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 I have
KrNDner.
Co., chemical manufacturers Of Northwich,
Cheshire. The products involved were soda
ash and bicarbonate Of soda. 1t was dis
tinct policy Of this firm to sell their prod
(which not only f:utldcrcut the American
product. but was less than the price in Eng
fish markets. This went on for some time
until the firm effec>ed 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: l believe It
chemicals, and particularly bicarbonate OF
soda, produced in this neighborhood, are
sold cheaper in the United States than in
this market; ! am Informed for that certain
firm of Nettlcfolds Limfted) 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: Il find that man.
ufacturers here endeavor to maintain
home markets, but when they can find
q foreign market, they will bid for at,
get it If they can without too great
loss, and thus increase the demand for
their output and reduce the cost Of pro-
duction without demoralizing home
prices"