Show TARIFF REDUCTION when the alio democratic p party arty car riel the country a year year ago and elected their president by the largest majority ever given our re r publican friends generally conceded c ded that the people wanted a tariff reduction lu in fact there was w no getting around that thai point it was the 0 one n c issue of the campaign of 1892 but as soon as the wils on bill is given to the public calamity howlers bowlers all over the country protest with well assumed horror tha the bill will be tho the death deitle of tile the auntry tile the party themselves or Bom etain anil when then american manefa manufacturers jurers insist that they can do better under the proposed law than they are doing ci oin under the present law they aie informed that they do d not know their own business the american wire nail company having 0 been referred to as one of the concerns about to be slaughtered by democracy with its wilson bill iniquity was submitted by the tribune of south r bend indiana ant answered by the dreo directors tors of the company ag aa follows answering your inquiry of doe doc 1 concerning the of the wilson oil tariff bill upon our busi business should tle the same game become became a law W will ill fay eay the reduction in t tariff ariff upon our finished product rod wire wire ant and wire wira nails carl can have no effect whatever as the tha present sent prices prevailing in this country are very nearly a as low if not fully as low as prices prevailing in forein foreign 0 n countries the price of wire nails is lower in this country we believe than in germany and france our improved machinery resulting in large outputs overcomes entirely entirely y any an advantage 0 which foreign manufacturers may have in lower prices for raw I 1 material in ili addition to our advantage of large products tile the foreign soller seller will trill have to 0 overcome ver corne coq of transportation eze the protection contemplated in ill the wilson bill for our finished products is ample alu placing ra of iron on the free list will have a tendency to cheapen the cost of our raw material thereby v better equipping us to meet any PO foreign competition we e regard the protection under the wilton tariff bill its as sufficient to give manufacturers in our like all 11 berie benefits fits from any advance in price of our products in the event of prices not advancing at the same timo time in forein foreign coun countries yours youra very truly tue THE abir AMERICAN MICAN WIRE NAIL co |