The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-20

the charges made by democrats and
sometimes repeated by misguided re-
publicans, that American made goods
can be bought cheaper abroad than
at home. In his address at Winston
Salem, in his usual matter-of.fact way,
he said:
"The Treasury Department has
many confidential agents in Europe,
and officially meet large number of
people. many Of them importers. who
annually go to Europe on business.
Through these two sources l have
sought to find what, If any, articles of
American production can be purchased
abroad cheaper than at home, and In
cidentally have accumulated abundant
evidence to disprove the claim of our
opponents that the practice of dump
ing, as it is called throughout Europe,
Is general. hold In my hand a let
Ter from business man of New Jer-
sey on the subject. He says he has
recently purchased at Treiton, N. j.,
Mccormick mower for $36. This,he
says, was the price at which anyone
could buy, spot cash. He found the
identical make and pattern for sale in
England at 10 pounds, (s4S.40 our
money!, and in France for francs 275,
or $55. He found Smith G Wesson
revolvers, which regularly sell in New
York at $1,000, for sale in Paris at
the equivalent of SIS. He found the
Douglas shoe, advertised in every
town in the United States for $3.50
per pair, also popular in London, the
metropolis of a free-trade country, at
the equivalent of 81 per pair, AMI in
Paris at the equivalent of $4.25 per
pair. The identical Sorosis shoe,
which sells in New York at $3.50, is
sold in London at $5.25. My daugh-
tiers, who spent the winter in Europe,
wrote their mother who was soon to
join them, to bring shoes Tor they
could not get good shoes as cheap in
Paris. My friend says he found a
Singer sewing machine at cheaper
price in Europe than in America, but
he added that it was machine made
at their German factory, and of a
much rougher finish and iaferior in
every way.
"But what shall be said of this prac-
tice as a policy? Is the practice bad
per Sc? Who suffers because Of it?
Does the American laborer? Go ask
the man who produces these exported
wares thus dumped abroad. | have
been criticised for saying that l
would prefer to have the American
manufacturer sell his products abroad
cheaper than at home rather than
have the foreign p.aducer sell his
wares in America cheaper than at
home. This is the same as saying
that would prefer to have the pro-
ducts of our factories close foreign
shops rather than have the products
of foreign shops close our factories.
l wish all the world well, but If any,
one has to be out of employment, II
there must be suffering somewhere,
then l will use my best efforts that it
come not nigh my country. If, to &C.
complish this, it shall be necessary
that pay more for my clothes, more
for my shoes, more for my sewing
machine, more for my typewriter, more
for the barbed wire used on my Iowa
farm Lnan is paid for the same ar,
cles in Europe, then will not object
so long as the products of American
farms feed, and the products of Amer
lean looms clothe, and the products of
American labor generally supply ev-
cry need of, those who produce these
things thus sold abroad at reduced
prices. l will consent to pay little
more than otherwise would be neces-
sary to the end that the products OIL
American labor shall be put on for
eign markets"