Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — TWO PRICES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO PRICES

On Protected American Manufactures. A “Home Market” Price with the Tax Added, And a Foreign Price Without the Tariff Bounty. American Manufacturers Competing in the Markets of the World with the So-Called “Pauper Labor” Manufacturer* of Europe. Below will be found positive proofs that protected manufacturers sell their goods abroad cheaper than in the “home market.” The price lists and cuts of manufactured articles for export are taken from well known export journals, such as the American Mail and Export Journal-Supplement, Australasian and South American, Engineering and Mining Journal. The New York ♦’ress, high tariff organ, says: “It is sometimes looked upon as wise to ship goods of the country at cost, rather than break the regular price for which such articles sell in the country in which they are produced.” By the “regular price” is meant the trust price. The Engineering and Mining Journal says: “So soon as an industry has attained the position where it can more than supply our home market and has to send its goods abroad, where they compete with those of foreign manufacturers, it is evident that they are either giving the foreigner the benefit of lower rates than they do our own people or that they are able to get along at home without any protection from foreign manufacturers.”

The United States statistical abstract for 1891 places the export of manufacturers during that year at $168,937,815. Of this amount $22,000,000 was for articles manufactured of wood such as furniture, barrels, wooden ware, etc.; $8,219,130 for agricultural implements, chiefly mowers and plows; $1,580,164 for clocks and watches, and $4,614,597 for articles made of copper; $28,909,614 for manufactures of iron and steel, $2,883,577 being for sewing machines, $9,881,908 machinery outside of farming inplements. By the way, how much protection did the American workmen get out of the $168,927,815 worth of manufacturers sold in the “pauper market ’ of Europe and South America? Legalized Robbery. Here is the advertisement of one of the three makers of gaskets protected by a duty of 45 per cent., which has been printed monthly for three years past in the “export edition” of The Engineering and Mining Journal:

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With brutal cynicism this protected manufacturer flaunts in the teeth of the American people his willingness to sell to foreigners at 30 per cent, below the price to Americans: Discount for home trade, 80 per cent. Discount for foreign trade, 60 per cent. Congress has given him the right to rob the American people of 80 per cent., but it can not authorize him to rob a foreigner. “What are you going to do about it?” asked Tweed when confronted with like proofs of theft; and he found out in a few months when he had to put on a convict’s uniform, But the Republican thief is safe from conviction. The Republican voters believe that robbery is right, and he ‘'protects” the thief from prosecution, if the thief pays for his “protection” by liberal contributions to the campaign fund. Cutlery. [Protective duty 35 per cent.]

In “home market” per dozen $2 25 To foreigners per dozen ~ 180 On other clases of cutlery similar favorable prices are given to the export trade. The prices charged foreigners range from 15 to 25 per cent, lower than the prices charged for the goods here. Three years ago the seven large table cutlery manufacturers in the-United States pooled their interests and formed a “trust” which now is in full control of the manufacture of table cutlery here. For the last two years a factory at Beavar

Falls, Pa., has been paid $12,000 a year, simply to stay idle, and, not produce cutlery in competition with the trust. Sewing Machine.. (Protective duty 45 per cent]

United Statess4s England 39 A cheaper machine manufactured in the United States is sold to the home dealers for SIB.OO and to the exporter for $13.00. Another prominent manufacturing company sells the machine for which it charges the American dealer $20.00, for export to South America for $5.00. SliuvcU. [Protective duty 45 per cent.]

Home ForMarket. eign. No. 1, round point, per doz.. $9 20 $7 86 No. 3, round point, per doz.. 980 837 No. 2, round point, per doz,. 960 821 No. 3, round jwint, perdoz.. 10 00 855 SpiidcN.

Home ForMarket. eign. No. 2, D handles, per doz.. $9 20 $7 86 No. 3, long handle, per doz, 980 887 These are the prices for home and export trade of shovels manufactured by one of the most prominent members of the famous “Home Market club,” of Boston. Other manufacturers of shovels offer similar discounts. One firm in particular, whose advertisement has a very prominent place in The Australasian and South American, gives u discount in its list of prices to the “Homa Market” of from 15 to 35 percent., while for the export markets the discount is 33 1-8 per cent. For export all goods are delivered "free” on board at Boston and New York.

The Indianapolis Journal has discovered a man “who has been a life-long Democrat, but has now taken refuge from the storms of free trade within the protecting arms of Republicanism.” This “life-long Democrat” is Dr. Taylor, of Brown county. If there is one county in the state that has not a single protected interest, it is Brown county, which supplies to the markets nothing but agricultural products and hard timber. Can Dr. Taylor point to any farmer in his county who has been benefitted by the McKinley tariff ? Brown county would be a tine field for coining enterprises if it had a railroad and the tax on tin was removed. With a tax of $18.44 a ton on steel rails the McKinley tariff has not served as a promoter of railroads, for “Old Brown," a county without a millionaire, or a pauper, or a representative in the state prison. As the people of Brown are exceptionally intelligent it is not possible that “many will follow the example of this influential gentleman,” as The Journal puts it, The Republicans tell the farmers that a “home market” is their only salvation. To obtain this home market they must tax themselves to encourage manufacturers. While the protectionists are howling against a foreign market for the farmers, the manufacturers are not confining themseives to the home market. The export of agricultural products has been steadily declining. In 1880 the export of agricultural product was 83 per cent, of the total export. In 1891 it was 73 per cent. In 1880 the export of the product of manufactures was 12 per cent, of the total export; in 1891 it was 19.34 per cent. Since 1800 the value of agricultural exports have increased 140 per cent, while that of the manufactured exports increased 820 per cent. Because the coal mines in Tennessee, which employ convict labor, are located near Briceville, the Republican papers have again put in circulation the story that Senator Brice employs convict labor. Briceville is a station on a railroad in which Mr. Brice was interested at the time the station was named in his honor, but he has no interest in the coal mines operated there. The principal stockholders are all Republicans, among whom Thomas C. Platt, the New York boss, is conspicuous.

No. 4,—HUNTING.

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