Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — A Democratic Liar Unmasked. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Democratic Liar Unmasked.

We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. C. K. Kennedy, [editor of the Review, Villisca, lowa, in which he inclosed the following article: There is a firm at Eagle Pass, Texas, said J.B. Ware, who has lived there for years, that sells Ames’ shovels. They cost them $6 per dozen. The same firm has a store just over the river in Mexico. There they sell the same shovel, bought of the same firm, and what do they- cost? Only $2.90 per dozen. Who gets the extra

$3.10 which all this vast country of ours pays on each and every dozen used? Is it the government? Does the laborer who makes the shovel receive it as a present? “No,” answers the last two questions. It is the protected manufacturer. We want every reader to remember when he goes to the hardware store to buy a common shovel with which to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, that a millionaire manufacturer reaches into his pocket and takes out 25 cents more than a legitimate profit, in the name of “protection.” What . is true of shove Iff is true of nearly all hardware. Protection, thy name is “thief.” This was clipped from a l&cal democratic paper in lowa. We referred it to the Ames company, which manufacture shovels, and; asked them to furnish us with the facts. Here is their reply: North Easton, Mass., August, 1824. Dear Sib: In reply to the letter of Mr. W. F. Hakeman about our Shovels of same quality being sold at Eagle Pass, Texas, at $6 per dozen and over the line in Mexico at $8.90 per dozen, it is the same old lie that was circulated in spring 1892, and we enclose you a copy of letter written to Mr. Henderson July 3,1893 s The present price of our best Ames quality crucible steel No. 2 size shovel to the largest trade is SB.IO net, and our cheapest shovel is $2.75 net-per dozen. The $6 shovel mentioned must have been our fourth or fifth grade and the $2.90 our very poorest Our Amrf quality of goods have never been sold at anywhere near the price mentioned —say SO. The verv lowest price for ! our poorest shovel is $2.75 net per dozen, delivered in New York, and freight would have to be added to Mexico. And we sell them at same price to large jobbers and export trade in all cases. Yours truly, Oakes A. Ames, President

“Tariff Reform.”

ITS EFFECT ON LABOR.

They Were a Long Time Reaching It.