Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — TWO PRICES. [ARTICLE]

TWO PRICES.

MOW THE INDIANA FARM SB It SWINDLED the ItpaUlotn Ttflff—litnil troth. Senator Voarheea* Speech in the Senate, Sept. 3 —Ameriean Made Agricultural Implement* Seld Cheaper la Feretga Ceuntrles Than at Home. Below is given an extract from Senator Yoorhees’ speech in the United States senate Sept. 8. last: How dares the American manufacturer compel the American farmer to pay him $65 for a mower which he sells in South America for S4O, or S9O for a feed-cutter which he sells in the Argentine Republic for S6O? The following table discloses in brief space the increase of prices in the protected home market, where the farmer is compelled to buy, over the natural and honest prices of the same articles in foreign markets, where it has no protection and needs none : Foreign Home , price. price. Advance plow S9OO SIBOO Advance plow. 4 00 8 00 Bay-tedder 30 00 46 00 Mower 40 00- 66 60 Horserake. 17 00 26 00 Cumming -feed cutter No. 3. 60 00 90 00 Ann Arbor cutter, No. 2.. 28 00 40 00 Ann Arbor cutter, No. 1.. 16 00 88 00 Clipper cutter 9 50 18 00 Lever cutter 4 25 8 00 Cultivator 2? 00 30 00 Sweep 6000 9000 The same rule of different prices for the same article, depending on its sale at home or abroad, which this list contains is to be found in the way of discounts and other trade arrangements of from 10 te 70 per cent, in favor of the foreign purchaser, and discriminating against the home consumer on nearly every dpecies of manufacture known to American industry. I submit a partial list of Utensils indispensable to the farmer which are manufactured in this country *nd sold abroad cheaper than he can buy them here: Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and plow; all-steel horseshoe and cultivator with Wheel; all-steel plain cultivator with wheel; lock-lever rakes; self-dump hayracks ; hay tedder; potato digger. Plows: Two-horse, chilled nine-inch cut; same all-steel. Chilled, ten-inch cut; all-steel, ten-inch cut. Two or three-horse chilled, sr.; same all-steel. Two or three-horse, chilled, jr.; same, all-steel. Two-gang, four horses, steel. Shovels: Cast steel, long handles, round point, No. 1 and No. 3; cast steel, D handle, round point, No. 2 and No. 3. Shades : Cast steel, D handle, No. 2; No. 3, cast steel, long handles. Rakes: The S. R. Nye improved twenty-two teeth and twenty-six teeth; Waldron’s pattern, oiled; silver steel painted; Western Dutchman, browned ; fine cutlery steel, full painted ; all steel, I full polished. Grain scythes; Waldron’s pattern; oiled; silver steel, painted; clover, oiled; clipper, bronzed and painted. To this list may be added the statement of the senator from- Missouri, which I quote: Also table and butcher knives, scissors, spoons, forges, drills, duck and twine, electrical appliances, explosives, j mills, boilers, flue cleaners, angers, wrenches, vises, blacksmiths’ tools, hoist- i Ing engines, jack-screws, pails, water ; coolers, washtubg. keelers, milk pans, j lamps, miners’ tools, keys, locks, meat cotters, lathes, saws, etc., on which the discount to foreign purchasers ranges ranges from 10 to 70 per cent.

There is an article going around in the newspapers about the increase of the exportation of American flour to the island of Cuba; that it has become very much larger than heretofore, and where Spanish flour was imported there American flour has taken its place. Most certainly it has, and what follows then ? Have the mills ceased to grind in old Spain? Bae the wheat forgotten to grow there? Not at all. But the Spanish flour which was formerly sent to Cuba goes to the French,' the Italian, and other European markets, where our flour formerly went, and supplants it, because, transportation is so mudh shorter and so much cheaper. There is, then, a ohange in the direction of fee exportation of flour, but there is no change due to this cause in the quantity exported, and there is not a change of one hunareth of 1 per <Bent. in the value of any of the commodities named in the McKinley hill u being put upon the free list as the herix for ieciprocity. From Senator Turpie’s speech on the Reciprocity Humbug.

The McKinley bill it from beginning to end an exclusively party scheme, deliberately, inflexibly and irresistibly foroed upon the'country by a disciplined and terrorized congressional majority, at the behests of wealthy Industrialists who, ia consideration of this service rendered, have contributed funds and influence for carrying the elections in the interest of Bbe party now in ascendancy, or more •directly, of certain party leaders. It Htt stand upon the statute books as the gMasest and most corrupt exercise of legislative powers ever perpetrated in the history of the country, and as the signal monument of a point of departure at which wealth and corrupt politics joined hands in alliance for defeating public opinion in the government of the nation.—New York Commercial Bulletin (nonpartisan). The United States department of labor has begun taking a census of the building and loan associations of the country.