The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-06-01
wAgENINC TO THE TARIFF
.blicans Learn That Trusts Are
Selling Cheaper Abroad
Than az Home.

~ 20 RenuDllcdh Nohbi'7ohA'h "NS
80 so anxious for proof OF the steel
.eillng cheaper abroad than here
strdd read their own party papers
thoroughly. The government
f- show that $4,000 tons OF steel
we've exported last month and
Az. market expert of the New York
r says. THE major portion OF
.t.. hilets, however. are shipped
t here In manufactured form.
are sold here for export at
ra around SIS at the mills, while
,ta visiting quotation for billets for
tic consumption is s27."
r this writer. who certainly
sh.i he good enough authority for
~ most stand-pat Republican. fur
rs- avs. Fully 10000 tons OF last
~ MS billet shipments were con-
aI 10 Welsh mills. where they are
4. a rolled into plates. then dipped
f "a an. reshipped here for the pur-
r. M making cans. The largest i'm
Of these tin plates Is the Stand
on company. which uses about
nm tons annually. The beef trust
"a iso a very heavy. buyer OF tin
-'r-es made from the steel billets
med from this country 10 Wales
Although practically all the raw ma
.~-ri used in the making OF these tin
-'es Is of American origin, the tar
~ holds them 10 be subject to duty
Inc and one-half cents per pound.
xf MAILING In
. Mate enhances the value. The
rrfard OIL company uses these tin
for the export of case oil. with
.fa result that n drawback Is given
# 2 hy the government OF the fun
-. duty. less one per cent" The
S. simon buy this American steel be-
rrso y f. sold for less than British
-la steel. and according 70 the
rte Republican authority for about
bird less than the trust charges
own people.
We have the evidence OF ". G.
n 40. who az the time he gave II,
nary .. 1874 was president 81
National Railroad company. @
-.i,o. quoted by Senator Bacon. 4
-s,reia. IN his sreech on tariff abuses.
-Alh can be found in the Congress
nal Record for April %. 1894. In
which Nr Raoul said. 'In 1902 I
rel bids on steel rails for Mexico
s--m United States mills at about 81
rered AZ Tampico. while the price
raid n the same time for rail for
rr- road In Texas was SOS at the
Mills"
So the steel trust was offering 20
NV the land and water freight from
he mills AZ Pittsburg 10 Tampico.
rfovlco. which could not have been
e=s than &c ton. and deducting that
mount from the price quoted OF S2i
e'ivered al Tampico. would bring the
rlce NJ the mills to SIS ton. or SO
ton less than the price OF the steel
nils for use in this country.
During last April there we're no less
tan 29.fil tons OF steel rails sold by
10 steel trust for export. so there Is
-r doubt that the same rnterselling
VS. foreigners still continues. Many
'er trusts are doing the same thing.
ror We hear OF farmers in Canada and
ga other countries buying A@erican
r'cultural machinery. fence wire
Ere similar articles made by the same
vester trust. the steel trust and
r-h,r protected corporations Il IS
v difficult 10 get the price at which
se products Of the trusts are sold
nv EXPORT. for there is great secrecy
lntained OF these transactions. for
obvious reasons. still those doubling
nonnblican congressman who cannot
onlain away the above given transac-
frs viii have to admit that the
Democrats have furnished enough
n-0of to convict the trusts Of selling
-hrauer abroad than here. which the
rtective tariff allows them TO co
With impunity.