Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — PRICE OF PLOWS AT HOME AND ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

PRICE OF PLOWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

During the recent discussion in the Senate regarding export discounts ths following letter was submitted by Senator Aldrich: Ghattshooga, Tenn., Aug. 28,1890. . Dear Sir: Your inquiry of the SI st received. Our foreign trade is iwith Mexico. Prices on implements in the United States are governed by 'cost and competition between manufacturers. Foreign prices are our home prices plus the difference in freight and cost of conducting buai■ness. Our net prices on plows, cape mills and everything we make, free on board cars at our factory, are prebisely the same to home and foreign customers. But the prices to farmers abroad are always higher than to farmers in the United States. Chattanooga canp mills, which we sell here for $24, SB6 and S4B, cost delivered in City of Mexico $72, S9B and $145, and retailed there at SIOO, $l5O and S2OO. Chattanooga plows, op which the, proportion of freight td'cqpt is not so great, we price retail as follbws: • .United iNo. States. Mexico. '32...W00 $8 00 33 6 00 12 00 34....'. 8 00 16 00 B 5 9 00 18 00 After deducting the discount on Mexican money this leaves the Mexican farmers paying an average of 75 per cent, more for their implements than onr home farmers pay. - Yours very respectfully, ' ~ Newell Saunders, President Chattanooga Plow Co. Hon. H. Clay Evans, Washington, D. C.

The figures which we publish elsewhere, taken from the Voice, clearly show that the Prohibocratic party is nothing more or less than a little handful of malcontents. Whatever may have been their hope twenty years ago, not one of them now believes that the formation of a party that can be felt is a thing possible. The fact that in twenty years it has secured less than 3 per cent, of the popular vote, when it takes 51 per cent, to enact a’law, is the very least 'indication of its failure. Look at the steady and rapid decline of the party for four years, as.shown by the figures taken from the Voice, and who car. have any hope? The truth is that these men are not prohibitionists now, whatever they may have been at one time. They are obstructionists and nothing else. Whatever has been done in the last twenty years has been done not only without their aid but in spite of their opposition. Look at their attitude to prohibition in Kansas and local option in Indiana.—Temperance Evangelist.

The present Congress has proved itself the friend of the workingman by the bills passed satisfactorily regulating and controlling convict labor, and for the adjustment of the accounts of laborers arising under the eight-hour law, with a view to securing them payment for excess of time which they may have worked. Another important measure is the amended alien contract labor act, the violation of which is made a criminal as well Ms civil offense. Steamship companies bringing over contract laborers are compelled to take them back at their own cost; and it is made unlawful for any person or corporation to encourage; alien laborers to migrate by promise* of employment through advertisements, and aliens thus persuaded are not to be allowed to land. The Republican party makes promises and keeps them. The Democratic party makes promises and forgets them. —Lafayette Courier. What are the Democrats going to do for a platform in 1892? The silver issue is settled, unless they want to take Cleveland’s determined opposition to silver as a keynote. The surplus in the Treasury will have been expended jn paying pensions under the new law, in building the new navy, in public improvements, and other necessary and proper expenditures, and the new tariff law will prevent any further accumulation of a surplus. The tariff question will have been settled according to the verdict of the people at the polls in 1888, and reciprocity will be the Republican watchword. Nothing will be left for them but to “view with alarm" the advance of Republican ideas. •

The sensible Democratic papers are telling their party to let New England and the Northwest “slide" and concentrate its efforts on New York, New Jersey and Indiana. The probability is, however, that the party will do nothing of the kind. It will keep right on as it has been doing and it will carry Maine, Wyoming and the other States in these localities in 1892 in just the same way that it carried the two here named this year, while allowing the debatable States to keep out of its grasp. In election methods as well as in the broad lines of economic and administrative policy the Democracy neither learns ndr forgets anything. --Globe-Domocrat. There can be no doubt that the single tax doctrine is growing in favor in all English speaking countries, mid we helievo there are many t ow living who will see its general adoption. —lndianapolis Sentinel. How do the farmers and real estate owners of Indiana like this new Democratic departure? The Republicans must gain by any fair Congressional apportionment scheme which’ can be deviled. Providence provided for this by giving a greater increase of popul-Alon to the Republican section of the we-try than to the Democratic.