Show FOR ANYBODY BUT OURSELVES One of the toughest things the protectionists protec-tionists have to answer is the charge that goods manufactured in this country are sold in foreign markets or for export cheaper tnan home consumers can buy them At first they denied that it was true but on being confronted with the proofs they are finally compelled to take refuge in the argument that tho thing alleged al-leged is done to secure foreign trade and that the prices demanded are about what the homeconsumer would have to pay the manufacturer abroad if there were no duty The Manufacturer a protection organ makes useof this argument in effect and the New York Times quoting therefrom adds Moreover there is the Chicago JnterOctan which expresses so much indignation because the manufacturers of cartridges In this country protected by a still laritf against foreign competition compel every American consumer to pay them 25per cent more for goods than a Canuck has to pay for the same goods or a greaser in Mexico To learn that the very goods for which they pay favored manufacturers a special price are sold to foreigners cheaper than they themselves can buy thom is bad enough but to be told that their bounty is taken in order to enable these manufacturers manufactur-ers to compete with rival manufacturers abroad is bringing the protection business home with a vengeance When these manufacturers man-ufacturers send their goods abroad they are willing to take fair prices for them but when they sell to their own countrymen they demand excessive prices because purchasing pur-chasing abroad is virtually prohibited The tariff gives them a monopoly and the fact that they can ba made for export to compete com-pete with the outside world shows they do not need protection |