Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1891 — American Farm Implements In Australia. [ARTICLE]

American Farm Implements In Australia.

The protection organs furiously deny that our manufacturers of farm implements and machinery sell more cheaply to foreigners than to our own farmers. What do these organs say to the following statement, which is quoted in the New York Engineering and Mining Journal: “Mr. Walter Alden has returned to St. Louis, Mo., after spending six years in Australia, and is reported to have stated the following: ‘lt is no use for an American to go out to Australia to do anything in a commercial way unless he represents some large corporation, such as some great agricultural implement manufacturing company, mining machinery, or the like. All American agricultural implements are away ahead of the English articles iWAustralia. They are sold, however, for a less price than here in America, especially in the free trade colony of New South Wales, .and they cost less 4n Victoria, a protective colony, than they do where manufactured or sold in this country.’ ” What, do our farmers think of protection to manufacturers who are able to sell abroad at lower prices than at home?