Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-02-16
GREAT BARGAIN SALES.
Our Big Trusts Mark Goods Way
Down to Foreigners.
ONE OF THE PRICE LISTS SHOWN

sheffield Firm Quotes Figures ON
American Files Sold In England al
One-third of Home Prices-Reduced
American Goods In England. Cam
ada and South Africa.
New evidence is coming to hand ey-
cry day showing the great difference
| in prices of our manufactured goods
when sold for export and when sold for
home consumption. Nearly every NUN
Der of the Iron Age contains informa-
ton OF this kind. Some time ago it
contained letters from manufacturers
complaining that goods exported TO
Hawaii or Porto Rico were being re
imported and sold here at prices lower
than those charged here for the same
goods by our manufacturers. The writ
ers blamed other manufacturers for
giving export prices to these countries
which now fly the American flag and
which therefore should pay full pro-
lection prices for our goods.
On Nov. Il the Iron Age quoted
American steel bars in England at 50
shillinES, or less than $50 per ton, and
in America at S1.42Ia, or $31.92 per
ton. Thus the independent manufac-
turer of tin plate i'll America who has
to buy his bars of the steel trust must
pay more than 30 per cent more for his
chief raw material than is paid by his
foreign competitor. This is protection
to home industries with a vengeance.
Of 10
tells us that American steel beams,
plates, angles, channels and rivet steel
are being sold in Canada at from 50 to
81 per ton less than the prices charged
here.
The Iron Age of Dec. Il enumerates
a great number of articles of Ameri-
can make which are sold largely in
South Africa. Nearly all are sold
there at prices far below those charg
ed here. Thus it appears that shovels.
which our shovel trust sells here at
80 cents each. are sold there at 36l2
cents. This Iron Age also contains in
formation showing that the United
States Steel corporation was early i'll
January offering steel bfllets in Lam
AYRSHIRE, England, at - shillings per
ton. Deducting 50 for freight and 9th
er transportation costs. the trust gets
about $14 per ton for billets for eX-
port, while its price to American con-
sumerS is $23.
The American manufacturers. most
ly in big corporate trusts, guard their
export prices so we'll that ii has be
come next TO impossible to obtain ex
port price lists or catalogues in this
country In 1902 the Democratic con-
gressiOnal committee. having failed to
obtain a certain important export price
list, advertised offering 500 for it. In
this way it obtained the list from a
foreign country Its 1902 campaign
book contains fifteen pages of photo
graphic reproductions showing scores
of important articles on which the
home price is from 20 to 300 per cent
above the export price.
Recently the literary bureau of the
Democratic congressional committee
received a letter from Henry ROssell
* Co. limited. Sheffield. England. large
and dealers in files and
tool steel. This letter says:
las an illustration OF the unfair
manner in which the home buyers OF
files are treated by the L. S. A. man
ufacturers | inclose you herewith
comparison of the prices charged to
the buyers in L. s. A. with those of
fered by the same manufacturers
here"
Some Of the prices on the list inclOs
ed follow:
PRICES OF AMERICAN FILES
IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.
Per