Show PROTECTIONS HOME MARLET Not many months ago several of the great Democratic journals gave a complete exposure of the fact that our protected manufacturers charge our own citizens more for goods than they charge foreigners There are two journals published in New York which are devoted exclusively to the export trade in American manufactures These are the Amtrlcan Mall and Export Journal and tho Australasian and South American They are issued monthly and have as their chief department price list which gives the lowest price at which goods advertised can bo obtained from the manufacturers The prices quoted in these journals are declared to be the rockbottom I prices for articles in small quantities such as by the piece dozen case etc It is difficult diffi-cult to get copies of these as they are published pub-lished for circulation in foreign countries only The reason they ere not sold in this country is as stated by the editor of one of them because the retail prices quoted for export are considerably lower than large dealers must pay for the same articles at wholesale The Engineering and Mining Journal publishes pub-lishes in its issue on the first of each month a price current with the statement that discounts are for export only This export supplement is not sold in this country but can be obtained by any person writing for it The advertisements in these papers of manufactures offered to the foreigner together to-gether with the cuts and figures and prices have been photographed and placed side by side with the advertisements intended for the American reader In one of the papers pa-pers mentioned the advertisements continue con-tinue for fortytwo columns They show that to the foreigner the protected mill owners sell their goods at from 10 to 20 percent per-cent less than to the American buyer One American advertisement offers two plows for example numbered and 34 to American Ameri-can purchasers at S and SIS respectively The foreign advertisement offers these sume plows illustrated by the same cuts and with the same numbers to the foreign purchaser for 4 and 9 respectively Mowers horse rakes cutters cultivators and sweeps are likewise offered to the foreigner at a large discount off the price at which any American can get them Many facts concerning how the home market is worked by our protected pro-tected manufacturers have been collected col-lected into a pamphlet by the Tariff Reform Re-form committee 52 William street New York The price of tbis pamphlet is three cents We make a few selections from the lists of advertisements of identical articles on which the protection is about 45 percent per-cent that it has collected and placed side by side In Home To for MarM eignert Wheel hoc cultivator rake and plough 21100 S PJO All steel horse boo cultivator with wheel aiD 073 All steel plain cultivator with wheel 720 450 The above prices to the exporters as well as for sale here are for single articles For I export the cultivators are delivered urree I on board ship at New York They are sold in all the markets of the world and catalogues describing their merits are printed in English Spanish German French and Portuguese In Home To For Marie eignert Lock lever hay rakes SlflOO SHsi i Selfdump hay rakes IS 00 1712 hay tedderun 2800 25J23 Potato digger 800 074 The aboye arc tho prices to the home trado for large canslanments but to the foreign consumer for single machines The protected manufacturers sell cheaper to foreigners at retail than to the home trado for largo wholesale orders Wo might fill columns with such comparisons but it is unnecessary Shovels and spades are sold by the dozen to foreigners at 786 and in tho homo market at 920 Hammers wrenches braces axes hatchets sledges anvils vises kitchen hollowware ice cream freezers appleparers meat choppers chop-pers wringers plated ware pulleys tracks and blocks weighing scales rules levels planes shears tool sets locksbolts I augurs screws drills saws type writers and sewing machines are among the list All of these are by the manufacturers themselves offered at a lower rate to foreigners than in the vaunted home market JI It is not necessary however to take the word of what the protectionists delight to call the free trade press on this subject Let a Republican paper bear testimony It is sometimes looked upon as wise to ship goods out of the country at cost rather than break the regular price lor which such articles sell In the country In which they are produced Xew York Press Or let some of the papers specially devoted de-voted to the manufacturing interests enlighten en-lighten us Just why American maaufaaturara will Bel macblneiy and other goods from ten to thirty per cent cheaper lij Europe than they will sell them to be used at home Is rather puzzling bill any one curious can easily find out that they do this It may be necessary to cut prices In order to secure trade from abroad bat it is likely to strike the American purchaser as being a little rough on him American MacMnitt So soon as an industry has attained the position po-sition where It cn more than supply our home market and has to send its goods abroad where they compete with those of foreign manufacturers manufac-turers It Is evident that they are either giving the foreigners the benefit of lower rates than they do our own people or that they are able to get along at homo without any protection from foreign manufacturers It is not fair that our own people should be made to pay more than foreigners for the product of our own land Engineering and Mining Journal The New York World published one of the most complete exposures of the fact that our manufacturers sell cheaper I abroad than at home and that the home I price as advanced by the tariff is simply so I much extra plunder extorted by them from the domestic purchasers This printed ex losuro may be obtained for 5 cents we be ieve Recently The Home Market club a Republican organization addressed I ad-dressed a note to one of the men who had I openly asserted that ho in common with other large manufacturers sold cheaper in the foreign than in thE home market This note was addressed to A B FARQU hAIl of tho A B P S Co Limited York Pa and inquired for information on these points Portions of the reply all of it is In the same line are as follows Mr Albert Clarke Secretary Home Market Club Boston Mass DEAn SmI reply to your favor of May 10 I have to MlcnowlciTgo it quite true that our tlrm sells Implements and machinery through Mexico I Mex-ico South America and Africa at prices from 5 to 10 per cent less than they are sold for In his country In adding that the manufae tuner who is able to export his goods can have no use for protection except to enable him to I extort more money from home purchasers than he is able to get from those abroad I was cny i stating a fact that I believed self evident It is I inconceivable that the same rival manufacturers manufactur-ers with whom we successfully compete on equal terms in foreign markets can be thought I I capable of driving us from the market at our own doors On that point among Inclllgent I men no argument is needed I I I We send upon an average about one half of our manufactures abroad something less just now owing to the troubles the Argentine and I Chill where we usually find our best market i Tho reason we do not get us good prices abroad as at home is that we have to compete I with countries having the great advantage of free raw material in their manufactures and I the further advantage of better transportation j facilities Great Britain in pursuance of her free trade policy has for years been extending I 1 her foreign commerce while we pursuing an opposite policy have left her In full possession I The Clyde ship yards are open to every European I Euro-pean investor who wishes to start a line of steamers while we must satisfy ourselves with vessels built at a dozen disadvantages I would unhesitatingly favor a repeal of the duty on all manufactured goods we make Since we can and do export the duty can be of no possible service and since it tends to provoke retaliation we find it a serious obstacle Reciprocity Re-ciprocity treaties covering our goods are acceptable ac-ceptable to us These are the words of a great manufacturer manufac-turer they are full of meaning It is conceded con-ceded to be somewhat remarkable that a free people ever should have submitted to so monstrous a wrong 8 that embodied in the present scheme of protective taI tion |