arest ms 31 n the cheapest lovers can foree vantages, or “high builders. masons nd miners in Pro t, as discovered A Cheney adrecye hammer made in For AMERICANS 3 » By BYRON W. HOLT. | '| SAMPLES OF “BENEFITS HANDED Chairman of the Tariff Ref rm Com. | 4 { be Reform lub ie La J willee of the Reform Club I'O THE “PROTECTED MECHANIC With the h gher tariff duties of the ; Dingley bill, in 1807, and the era of | Prices quoted to the Teri) Reform Committee's “export agent: triint nad o) Briss i ame) that | Excess charged Payne rusts and higher prices (at home) that American Red 11d rich then began. the practice of selling goods | Wholesale Price. mer as cost of duty at lower prices for export rrew more | . Eszport Domestic ‘protection : Per et oe va on odaiiche SHIA Combination pipe vise No, 712 8 6.00 8 5.00 § 3.00 equals 50% 45 ray ¥ wilh our growing export tr ge ’ o t Q “Bak oS a a pt = pray at - i 3 Plumbs and levels, 30-in. (dog) 6.54 9.3¢ 232 Te 45 So dictatorial i high prices at tub " ’ : Geiser stationary 8 bh, p. gaso » 8 ¥ ns ing 5 0 AG =e "sa w“ OO pe » Aye 1 : N Raaung line engine . 332.50 403.75 71.25 0% 45 ‘8 at greatly reduce pr | a . a» a or #“ ‘ . . -b fy yo : {| Ueiser gasoline pump. 10.50 12.75 - =1%% 45 REBErs had th rotecteod Ste i y ~ A x ‘ “ . » ur 81 3 . eK Machine bolts, ix’ {per 100) 1.40 1.04 od ’ ne in b thu ‘én the nley 2 \ » Sa .“ . Ms #3 ar ht | seh . Brick trowels, S.ineh (doz.).... #0 8.05 215 45 hioh.tariff ad tra Tm v med Lf cm Mm DE . . . Wphrliiiin Aaministrat » ghtene {| Barnes scroll saw No. 7....... « J050 12.75 ed A, 1%% 25 at th ant ¢ ! : 4 = \ . yi 8 falen 1] Mortising machine, foot. ...... « 14.00 17.00 3.00 8 21% 45 it ed i i 3 \ 3 “ ? ‘ y a {] Richardson hack saw (doz)... 1.38 1.88 S50 368% os ia 4 trunts > s - oy . an o re ; i] Haod and rip saws, 26.in. (doz.) 11.55 15.75 49 “ apes ox Wh Leu {} Iron horse shoes (owt «os. 3.20 4.10 JO 28% Prib.je if the Bureau of alistics on commerce | ’ . {| Cheney's adse eve hammers, and Hoance for August, 1000 tH : a o BD : - : . Mh {dos} .......s.., . 4.76 5.58 22 . 17% 45 The MeKi iministratio tually | . : \ yr , x The McKinley administration virtually Ames cast steel shovels (doz) 10.50 12.00 1.30 = 15% 45 read the riot act” to the bold steel 18 contractors’ picks (doz. £.10 8.00 90 *“ 11% 45 st 8 that Ya vilmy ry Toast . -a bina a were playing fa ‘04 1 Branson knitting machine, 72 86 with Americas InSUMers he | noodle... ........ .. 10.00 00 3.50 “ 10% 45 fing HAL re were t i tha ! “lie. pound, y v of selling goods at wer prices to | } ghted and wi i, | on 2 > + tha 1 al | Little ¥ alls, N. Y.. costs the Ameri | Pa, costs the American builder, even if it ir 36 Ter Vai} : AYA y | carpenter a sixth more than the price at | he can get it at wholesale, $403.75, while eR Hae i ! : which the Henry Cheney Compa: finds | for export it sells for $332.50. The same i Wire y y ] rices from £1 2% | it profitable to sell the same hammer for | discrimination of 29 per cent. in favor from ; ‘nal al o | of ¢ foreion nn ‘ , i f a year, and the | ©XPort to the English arpenter, who {of the fc reign purchaser applies to this . ! 'r no protective duti | company’s gasoline pum t 50 fo oe nies r selling rails at Pitts. | Hes for no protective duties npany 8 g ha line pump at $10.50 for hase fr a ' ton for Rams assump. | Por his band and rip saws, made by | export and $12.75 for home use. " while the foreign consumer was pur. | the National Saw Company in Newark, | Tax on Workingman's Tools asing them for $22 to $24 a ton. {N. J., the American carpenter pays 361 Plumbs and levels (30 inches) made by As we know, these warnings went un. | per cent. more than the price to the { the National Saw ( ompany, Newark N head 1 3 the greatest of all sted Lanadian carpenter {J.. cost 37 per cent. more: their plaster trusts was formed his trust in | { ine made by the W, {ing trowels (11 inches) 30 per cent ately enlargs 18 export trade Its 1 AF mpany in Rockford, | more and their brick trowels 35 per cent. 1 i has been to “charge abroad what we 3] an builder who fav: | more to Americans than they charge for ARs Deen { arg i : 3 £ Can get, as was stated by its first pre | ors ¥, as well | export, lent w M. Behwab, to the Ways | deluded protectionist, 21 per cent { “Protection” for the American work. i Means committee in 1008, Its for | than the export price of the same ar | ing man is placed at 45 per cent. on these x a" Y Ide YOY sy COTA 's hous p vy eign prices have always heen (at least » any builder bevond the « mntry's boun ! tools for earning a living, Where the til 18] far below its home prices, | darie The American apprentice wh ! protection for the workingmap comes in The average foreign price on all exported | buys a scroll saw from this company no one but the manufacturers of the pro ny ts has been about £30, as against o has to pay 21 per cent. more than | tected articles can see. and they can see $40 for the same products in the nest) t sells for abroad | it clearly enough to contribute generously market That is up to last vear the An eight horse power Geiser station- | to the campaign fund of the Republican Steel trust, through the tariff, forced | ary gasoline engine made in Waynesboro, | party and to leagues working for high American nsumers of steel to pay } protective tariffs, per cent. more than it charged foreign The domestic price of a machinist's nenmers vise No. 72 manufactured by the Pren Buying in Dearest Market tiss Vise Company at Watertown, N. Y. o retain the al suce of the fow 8 21 per cent. higher than the export workers who favor prot price. This company charges wholesale \ ogiax ¢ the American mechanic $9 for its combi. to win the iegiance o fi I 712 e it sell vote for lower duties the (pr Cwt) $3.20 nation pipe vise No. 712, which it sells must show them HOW for export for $6, Machinists’ hammers (two pounds) manufactured by the Henry Cheney Ham. mer Company of Little Falls, N. YY, cost machinists bere $1.51, nearly one- third more than the expor dozen. ttl ALLS 4 i price per Coe's Wrench Company at Worcester. Mass, charges machinists for some ass, ¥ wrenches an advance of 25 per cent. over their export price. The price of their
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