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Show ONE PER CENT. The Proportion of Goods Sold Cheaper Abroad Than at Home. v Full wolght has been given to tho J few manufacturers who mako a lowor Vn prlco for oxport on certain goods at certain times. Wo havo glvon all tho testimony available from tho Industrial Indus-trial commission's report. Tho showing show-ing proved to bo insignificant and ridiculous, ri-diculous, amounting as It did to loss than ono per cont of our exports of manufactures. ! On tho other hand it would bo Im- I posslblo to givo tho testimony of man- ' ufacturors who sell at tho sane or a , higher prlco abroad. Eighty por cent of tho replies to tho Industrial com-i com-i - mission niado this assertion and show- j od how absolutely unworthy of weight la tho contention of tho Democratic Congressional commltteo on this question. ques-tion. A fow extracts will aufllco to prove tho instability of tho free trader's trad-er's position. Establishment No. C9, which manufacturers about 40 per cont of tho locomotlvos In tho United i Statos and oxports ovor 15,000,000 worth, says: "Tho average prices received from abroad aro higher than average prices rocolvod from tho United Statos." Tho manufacturers of agricultural Implements report, with only ono ex-coptlon, ex-coptlon, that prices to foreign purchasers purchas-ers aro either blghor or no lower than lor domestic purchasers. Ono says: 1, f, "Forolgn prices aro made sufficient- 11 Is" M ' I higher than dome&tlc prices to 'a r Q pay freight to Now York and boxing H ' " (or ocean shipment" Another says: "Tho foreigner pays ocean Incurao and duties, which add from 5d to 100 per cent to these not prices, making higher prices to them." In leather and leather products the only establishments which report lower low-er prices from export trado than for domestic purchasers aro thoso which produce sole leather and rut soles. They givo as a reason tho rebate of tho tariff duty on forolgn hides. In textiles, establishment No. 15, exporting ex-porting nearly a million dollars' worth of drills and sheetings, equal tn 60 per cent of Its total product, state that: "They usually get better prices for export than homo trado goods." Establishment No. 16, exporting moro than three-quarters of a million dollars' worth of drills and shootings, equal to 75 per cent of their total product, says: "Prices in those markets aro somo-tlmes somo-tlmes better than at homo." Establishment No. 89, which selU over $300,000 worth of sowing machines ma-chines yearly In forolgn countries, states that: "Export prices nro generally about tho samo as prices In tho United States." Establishment No. 32, manufacturing manufactur-ing lamp chimneys, etc., answers: "Wo havo made It a pait of our policy to sell domestic trado at as low If rot lower prices than to tho forolgn trade." Five typewriter manufacturers say: "'No lower;' 'Foreign machines not as much as domestic;' 'About tho same;' 'Slightly higher;' 'Slightly higher.' " The wlro end wlro rope manufacturer's manufac-turer's say: "No lower." The manufacturers of stoves soy: "Flvo per cent higher abroad; no lower." Not a slnglo texttlo manufacturer reports lower prices abroad. In short, over 350 out of 410 replies report the samo prices or higher prices abroad, and thoso manufacturers represent our great exporters In every lino of foreign for-eign trade. It Is Just as well to carry theso figures along with us during the campaign, Annual business In U. S $40,000,000,000 Manufactures 15,000,000,000 Exports of manufactures manufac-tures 400,000,000 Goods sold less abroad (perhaps) 4,000,000 |