Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Rebates Favor Foreigners. [ARTICLE]

Rebates Favor Foreigners.

Many intelligent citizens find it hard to believe that' our protected manufacturers sell their products cheaper to foreign than to our own consumers. There are many reasons, and one of them is that our manufacturers can afford io sell cheaper to foreigners. Our tariff makers intended that this should bo done when they inserted the “rebate” clauses in their “protection" measures. These rebates favor foreigners by giving our 'manufacturers cheaper raw materials when they manufacture goods for export. If any one doubts this, let him read the following from the Sac (Iowa) Sun, copied in the American Economist of Oct. 14: “The present protective tariff rebates the duty—pays it back—on all raw material imported and manufactured into articles which are then exported, 1 per cent, only being retained to pay expenses of collection. This is done to enable our manufacturers to secure raw materials (not produced in this country) which are to be manufactured for export as cheap as they can be had In foreign countries, and thereby to compete in other countries with foreign manufacturers, which they are do ng very largely.” The McKinley tariff may be hard on foreigners, but it is much harder on Americans, who get no relief from its burdensome taxation and prices. “Protective” or “American” tariffs, as their friends like to call them, always discriminate against Americans and in favor of foreigners.