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can't proportion of manufactured goods cold abroad arc sold ct rsduto 1 prices. They quote the spssch of Secretary Shaw in Chicago during the session os the Republican National Convention, in which he said:
 "Our opponents lay much stress upon the fact that some American manufac- turss arc sold abroad chsspes than q home. Our friends sometimes deny this, and they sometimes apologize for 1t. and few, in times past. have joined eur opponents iu recommending re- moval of the tari6 from all such ar ticles. It is useless to ds..y. and, In my judgment. unwise to apologize and little short of foslishness to attempt to remedy the assumed evil in the man. nsr proposed by tho opposition.
 "A non-partisan commission ap- pointed by Congress to investigate the subject with authority to compel the attendance of witnesses. made care ful and detailed report. Easing his computations upon the facts set forth in the report, Senator Gallinger, of Now Hampshire, in . speech made in the United States Senate on April B. last, placed the value of exports sold 1t . lower price abroad than at home at 5000, 900. I cannot find that the substantial correctness of this estimate was ever questioned by the opposition. But in any event the amount is % small as compared with the aggregate output of our factories as to be un- worthy of consideration"
 Secretary Shaw ise either . novice with ng,aes or he fs entirely willing Co fool the voters with big statistics which he knows are not true. It is hardly possible that OUT Secretary of the Treasury does not know that we do not produce $13.oOO 100000 worth of manufactured goods in year ready for final consumers, or anything like this amount Our Census statistics of manufactures contain many duplfca- tions. Thus we have manufactures of cloth goods and of clothing: of iron and steel, and of foundry products. machinery, etc; of lumber and of furniture; ot leather and of boots and shoes. In these few industries the Applications amount to $2,000, ,O00,00 or S3,000, ,o0o,O00 Were 1t possible to take out the duplications--that is. the products of one mill that arc sold as raw materials to another mill--it is probable that the total value of finlahed manufactured products would not be more than half of $l3,000. .000, 900 Whether or not our census figures have been stuffed in order to malAs great showing for protection can only be surmised
 The statement that only S4.00O,00l worth of our manufactured goods are sold abroad cheaper than they are sold at home Is ridiculous. Secretary Shaw says that he got his statistics from the report of the Industrial Commission. but he neglected to cite the page or volume. As matter of fact 10 sncb statistics appear in any of the nineteen volumes. Neither are there any stlte ments from which he could reasonably draw such a conclusion.
 Secretary Shaw well knows, as docs every one of the Commission, that the pretended investigation which that partisan body made of export prices vas farce and that 1t is absurd ts ,ttempt t0 draw conclusions as docs secretary Shaw, from data oItaincu in answer to the scattering letter of in Iniry sent out hy the GeHiBtissioa
 In the first place schedules of in. lLiry were sent out to only 2.0G) oi the GO0.oo0 manufacturing estabiisi. Incnts of this country-tn.t is, o,lly o.l. cf every 30o. In the next place only t1G replies were received. Of course the answers were mainly from tl.oe who were not guilty. The guilty one. did not volunteer information which would incriminate them before the American public. Moreover, t.ies doubtless understood the makeup ol the commission and knew thlt it die not want evidence of the great extent of this business. Hence, nearly all of the guilty manufacturers either re from answering at all or pu, In ridiculous and absurd answers. such as they supposed would please a ma jority of the members of the commis sion. Under the circumstances it i. that even 75 manufict,.rer, admitted that they were diserir,ina ing in favor of foreign customers. Al this rate more than 100.puU of O. are favoring foreigners
 It could with far better losic aae reason. be concluded from these In iustrial Commission figures that q, 70 out Of 416 manufacturers soil st 100000 worth of products chea,.s ibroad than at homo that. out Of th ioo,o00 manufacturers in this countr, lOS.ooo would sell s5,7Cs 900 ,0Ou wortt 'f goods cheaper abroad than a, hone rh's result is obtained by simple pr. portion and is mathematically corro..