Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-05-25
THE DAILY INDEPENDENT
Entered at the ElKo posiomce FOR transmission
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FRIDAY MAY %. 1906
TARIFF To THE FRONT.

Those republican congressman who
are so anxious for proof OF the Steel
Trust selling cheaper abroad than here
should read their " party pagers
more thoroughly. The government
statistics show that $1,000 tons OF steel
billets were exported last month aud
the market expert OF the New York
Press says: @The major portion Of these
billete, however, are shipped back here
III manufactured form. They are sold
here for export at a price around SIS at
the mills while the existing quotation
for billetS for domestic consumption
is S27."
But this writer. who certainly should
be good enough authority fer the most
standpat republican, further says:
@Fully 10000 tons OF last months bill
let shipments were consigned to
Welsh mills, where they are to be
rolled into plates, then dipped in tin
and reshipped here FOR the pur-
pose OF making cans. Tho largest
importer Of these ito plates is the
Standard Oh Campan!, which uses
about loo, goo tons annually. The Beef
Trust is also IL very heavy buyer OF tin
plates made from the steel bille:s ship.
ped from this country to Wules. Al.
though practically all the raw material
used IN the making Of these tin plates
Is OF American origin, the tariff holds
fhnn, IN Ia. enI,n,f o., , .lrtp ~ ,.aI.
per pound. as the process OF making
them into tin plate enchHnces the
value. The Standard Oil Company
uses these tin plates for the export of
case oil, with the result thu, n drawback
is given to it by the Government of the
full import duty less | per cent" The
Welshmen buy this American stee!
because it is sold for less than British
made ST ccl and according to the above
republican authority for about one.
third less than the trust charges oul
" people.
We have The evidence Of W. q. Raoui
who at the time he gave it, Feb. &c
l9cl, was President Of the Nutiona,
Railroad Company Of Mexico, quoted
by Senator Bacon % Georgia III his
speech on tariff abuses, which can bt
found in the Congressional Record foI
April 20, 1901, in which Mr.. Raoul eaid
AIN 1902 | secured bids on steel rails fol
Mexico from United States mills a
about S2i delivered Mt Tampico, Will,
the price ! paid at tie same time 10,
rail for our road in Texas was S2S u
the mills"
So the Steel Trust was Offering to pay
tho land and water freight from the
mills at PIttsbnrg To Tampico, Mexico
which could not have been less thar
&c II ton and deducting that amount
from the price qu tied OF S2l dcliverct
at Tanpico would bring the price n
the mills to Sl3 Il ton or $40 Il ton les
than the price OF the steel rails for us,
in this country.
During last April there were no les
than 23,lll tons OF steel rails sold b,
the Steel Trust for export, so there i
no doubt that the same underseliinR 4
foreigners still continues. Many othe
trusts arc dong the same thing, for ",
hear OF farmers in Canada and in othe
countries buying American agriculture
machinery, fence wire and other Amcri
can products foT much less than on
own farmers are buying similar article.
made by tho same lllrvcst,r Trust. the
Steel Trust and other protected corpora
tons. 1t 10 very difficult to get The
price at which these products Of tin
trusts arc sold Tor export, Tor there i
great secrecy maintained Of thes
transactions, Tor obvious rcasOns Still
those doutr,ing republican congressme
who cnnuo, explain away tho ahov
given transactions will have to ADM
that the democrats have Furnished
enough proof to convict the trusts q
selling cheaper abroad than here, whic.
tho protective tariff ALLOWS them TO IL
with impunity.
A TRiUMviUATE or uOCuS rOuUs