Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-06

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son line OF physicians Office equip
ment, manufactured in indianapolis,
the same discrimination is maintained
against the American doctor, who ia
compelled to pay on account Of PRO
lection" one-quarter more than his fell
low doctor in Europe. Asia, South
America and Africa.
The same discrimination is practis-
ed against the American business man
in the furnishing Of his ONCE. The real
estate agent the insurance agent, the
broker, the lawyer, the editor. the
architect-every man who has to
maintain an Office feels the burden
Of projections toll from the minute
he gets inside his Office door. When
he sits down 10 read his mornings
mail in revolving desk chair would
he feel protected" if he stopped TO
contemplate the fact that for export
to England or the continent this same
chair is sold nearly a third cheaper
than the price he has paid, and that
his rolltop desk, costing him $50, was
sold for S45.50, or 5000 less, to go
abroad? The duty on these two ne
cessary pieces of office furniture,
desk and chair, in As per cent.
For safe and other metal Office fur
niture the export agent" went TO the
Meilink Manufacturing company OF
Toledo. It's export discounts must be
met by other manufacturers, so it's
prices can be taken as representative.
, The business mans safe, steel filling
boxes, the card index and desk tele-
phone brackets made by the Meilink
company are sold 10 the protected"
/ business man in America for one-fifth
70 third more than the export price.
$40 office safe goes abroad for SIS
less than ~ the American consumer.
At per cent that means $l.1O year
for safe protection" The $500 steel
hling boxes cost the American s1.O5
more than if he were buying for ex-
| port; the $5.lS card index costs sc
cents more and the desk telephone
. bracket one-third more than it costs
for export TO the business man in
London, Berlin. Paris or Vienna.
The protected lead pencil manufac.
turer "soaks" the protected" Ameri-
can consumer with prices so per cent
| higher than he is willing TO sell his
goods for in the worlds markets. In
/ 1911 we imported only S40S.103 worth
OF lead pencils, on which we paid a
/ DUTY Of IS cents per gross, plus "a
! aH vva1nrpp,
rate figured up to an average duty OF
1914 per cent. That is, we paid 1853.
/ TAI duty on S40S, 1O3 worth of import.
ed pencils
Meantime what was the American
manufacturer doing. safe from compe
titiou behind the prohibitive tariff
wall? He was charging the American
consumer just as much as imported
pencils Of the same grade would cos
with the duty added In addition Il
this. b" was exporting just about as
many pencils as We were importing
and was quoting prices for export
threefifths Of the price he charged a
home.
Our export agent" took the great
pencil house of Dixon 10 prove thi.
and secured Dixon's export discount
sheets. Three samples will suffice
DiXon's round No 143 is $3.50 pei
! gross to the American purchaser auC
1925 for export. DiXon's heXagon No
l24 is So a gross at home and $3.24
abrOad. DiNons stenOgraphers pencil
is $3.50 a gross il you are buying FOL
the American, but S135 cheaper, Of
S2.25 a gross if for use abroad Dixon,
rubber erasers. beyel end, are $120
box for home use, but We could bul
as few or as many as we desired Il
send 20 Newfoundland, or anywhert
else outside OF the protected. United
States, for so cents a box. Although
the home price is so per cent higher
the duty is only 80 per cent.
When the American barber under
stands what protection" costs hin
will he keep quiet? The Archer Manu-
featuring company of Rochester, \
Y, was taken by the tariff reform
committees export agent" as repre-
sentative OF the manufacturing indus
try as il affects every barber and il
- ANES iAl ~ pOiA " llit ANt"lO
market were obtained. We found tn
Archer Company-and others woul
! be Just the same-glad TO knock OF
+ one-hfth Of its home market price 70
r the benefit Of the barber in NewfounC
r land, or. for that, matter. for any bal
Der outside of the United States. Al
Cher's No. 60 chair with lowerin
, movement, such as is found in an
, good barber shop is quoted to Amer
cans at $50, but 70 foreigners for 50 4
less. The manufacturer knows h
can exact this excessive price. b.
7 cause the American barber is prohil
Z tied from importing a similar chat
unless he pays 40 per cent duty.
The barber might ask the America
manufacturer. or some republican col
gresham or senator, why he mus
pay $2.l6 more than the export pric
for Archer's oak manicure table No.
e and Archer BARRIERS oak mirror cas-
] No. ass, in three sections. To the 70
eigner the Archer company is willin
TO sell this outfit for S199.5O, but Ii
home price is $40.
Il While the barber is talking about
he might, ask the giant Colgate co