Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-03-04

UNI Ok AG1 Ih4Ob u1O . DHO W N
Sheffield Firm Quotes Figures on
American Files Sold In England nj
One-third of Home Prices-Reduced
American Goods In England. Can
ada and South Africa.
New evidence is coming to hand ev-
cry day showing the great difference
in prices of our manufactured goods
when sold for export and when sold for
home consumption. Nearly every num-
Der of the Iron Age contains Informal
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 SUOlllU pay luIJ pro-
lection prices for our goods.
On Nov. II the Iron Age quoted
American steel bars in England at 50
shillings, or less than $50 per ton, and
in America at $1.421a, or $3l.92 per
ton. Thus the independent manufac-
turer Of tip plate in America who has
to buy his bars of the steel trust must
pay more than so per cent more for his
chief raw material than is paid by his
foreign competitor. This is protection
The same number of the Iron Age
tells us that American steel beams,
plates, angles, channels and rivet steel
are being Sold in Can ida at from 50 to
S11 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
Soath Africa. .se:,rl, .>.l are sod
there at prices far below those cllarg
ed here. Thus it appears that shove!s,
Which o..r shove! trust sells here at
80 cents each, are sold ti.crp al 3Gl4
cents This Iron Axe also contains in
formation showing tl4;st tie United
States steel cooperation was early III
January offering steel bi.icts in Ian
AYRSHIRE, England, at - siiiliuGs per
ton. Deducting 81 for freight and 9th
Ell transportation costs. tie trust gets
about $l4 per ton for biilets for ex-
port While its price to American CON
sumerS is $2.}.
The American manufacturers. most
ly in big corporate trusts, guard their
export prices so we'll that it has be-
come next to impossible to obtain eN-
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 800 per cent
above the export price.
Recently the literary bureau of the
Democratic congressional committee
received letter from Henry Rossell
x Co, limited, Sheffield, England. large
manufacturers and dealers in files and
tool steel This letter says:
AS an illustration Of the unfair
manner in which the home buyers of
files are treated by the L. S. \. man
ufacturcrs | inclosc you herewith a
comparison Of the prices charged to
the buyers in L. S y. with those Of
fcred by the same manufacturers
here
Some of the prices on the list inclos
ed follow
COMPARATIVE PRICES OF AMERICAN FILES
IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND.