Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1910-10-27
(FrOns Oar WdsAiagton COrvespOadeat)
VITAL WASHINGTON NEWS


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facturers whose products are
protected In this country by
the Payne-Aldric bill are sell
ing their goods cheaper abroad
than at home.
The beef trust heads the list IL
is shipping American beef 70 Egg
land. and. after paying transports
ton across the Atlantic selling It's
products at two cents pound below
American market price.
The following tab 9 complied from
discount sheets sent 10 Europe by
American firms, Shows the differ
ence between export and home pri-
ces Of certain spacified articlesI
Export price. Home price.
Anger bits:
Irwin 3 solid center, four sixteens.
per dozen, $l.30 81 80
Bolts:
Carriage, three eiRhths by 3inches,
per hundred, go rs
Machine. three ighths by 6 inches.
per hundred, 81 SO
Tire, three-eighths by 6 inches,
per hundred. IS .76
Braces,
Trays ratchet, No. 81, per dozen.
1904 145O
Harness snaps:
Trojan" one-eighths loop. per
gross 2.70 $50
Lamp chimneys:
Macbetb's. No. 5O2. per dozen.
40 SO
Macbeth g. No. 5O4. per dozen,
so go
Rifles:
Stevens Little Scout" No IA,
each 1.33 I75
Stevens "Favori,e,"
347 $50
Watches:
Elgin movement. 20 year gold FILL
60 case 1y6 10 q
Elgin movement. silveroid case
3.O4 447
IL is true. Of course. that low
prices 10 consumers 10 England in
creases the sale of American goods.
Lower domestic prices on the same
goods wonld also increase the sales
in America, thereby increasing the
output and the employmentof labor,
and tending TO increase the wages
OF the workers. An illustration OF
this view appear In the experience
OF the steel trust. Notwiths sanding
the panic Of 1907 in the United
States. il made with great pu bile an
nouncement q sweeping reduction
10 prices.
The result was o prompt aud
very marked revival Of activity in
/. the domestic sales OF iron aud steel
products. leading 10 the planning
and building Of many new bridges,
buildings, aud other structures,
and the renewal Of operations In
many industries requiring iron and
steel.
HAmerican manufacturers Of lead ,
oil, chemicals. hardware, harvesting
machinery, watches. typewrisers,
typesetting machines, would give
Americans the same prices extend
cd TO foreigners, there is no reason
why their markets would not be
vastly enlarged, as were those OF
the steel trust. The American peo-
pie constitute the greatest purchas-
ing possibilities in the would.
Experience with American trusts.
however, justifies the vie " OF down.
ward revisionists that the manufac
turers in the United States will not
reduce their domestic prices to any,
where near the level OF the prices
extended TO foreigners until they
are forced to do so by real down.
ward revision OF the the tariff.
GOING UPl
Prices are still going up. AS q
result OF the upward revision of the
entire cotton schedulein the Payne.
Aldrich Law the prices OF women's
and children's dress goods have in.
creased considerably.
The John V. Farwell Company
says in Q review of the wholesale
dry goods trade that still more adj
vanccs may be expected.
The review declares that almost
all manufacturing agents are ad-
vancing prices on staple manu-.
factured cottons. As il looks now
prices will continue 70 grow firmer
and higher in staple cotton goods. {"
TINS Is CERTAIN
Republican voters who sympathizs
with men like LaFollette and Cum
MINIS cannot consistently vote for
standpat Republicans for Congress.
because standpssters believe in
Cannonism, and Cannonism In the