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8 THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. FRIDAY, SEPTErBER 6, 191?. More Strong Examples of Tariff Discrimination BY BYRON W. HOLT. (Chairman of the Tariff Reform Com mittee of the Reform Club.) Can any business man see the ad vantage of "protection" which ex- eludes foreign competitors and en ables the domestic manufacturer to charge the American consumer near ly twice the price he charges the for eign cor. turner for' the same type writer, especially since this domestic price Is from three to four times the com of manufacturing? The typewriter manufacturers hare explicitly denied discriminating in this way against the home consumer. Testifying before the senate finance committee. Fob. 1, 1912, as represen tative of the fnderwood. Remington, Monarch, Smitji -Premier, Son, Elliot FiBher. Standard, Tost and L. C, Smith Typewriter companies, Charles Straus of New York city said: "I wleh to make as plain and as ab solute as possible that the typewriter Industry of America does not dispose cf Its product In Europe below the f gures it receives for the same in this country. There Is not a single com pany that sells abroad for lens money than here. Nor have I been able to find a single company that doos not hell it product for more money abroad than it, gets here. P.ut the tariff reform committee "ex port aent." who succeeded in obtain ing the confidential discount rates on hundreda of American manufactures, l.a proved that tfiia discrimination Is still practised. He chone for bis imag inary trade In ihe unprotected market of Newfoundland the I,. C. Smith ma chine. On a model which sells In the Vnited States in wholcbale quantities for and retailH for $100, he was cuot.d the export price of J3.". He could pet one machine or a hundred at this price, while Mr. American liiihitiestt M.m. who helps maintain a tariff of M I it cent on typewriters, has to pay f,4 per cent more for the iuentii-al nrticle. I'mii r this "protection" we import ed in i:tll oniv t:,W worth of tvo"- (9 I PreRem For an Allison physician's table No. 36 the American doctor must pay $15.50 more than the same table costs a doctor abroad. On all of the Alli son line of physicians' office equip ment, manufactured In Indianapolis, i the same discrimination Is maintained I against the American doctor, who Is ! compelled to pay on account of "pro- j tection" one-quarter more than bis fel- low doctor In Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. The same discrimination Is practis ed against the American business man In the furnishing of his office. The real estate agent, the Insurance agent, the broker, the lawyer, the editor, the architect every man who has to maintain an office feels the burden of protection's toll from the minute he gets Inside his office door. When he sits down to read his morning's mail In a revolving desk chair would he feel "protected" if he stopped to contemplate the fact that for export to England or the continent) this same chair is sold nearly a third cheaper than the price he has paid, and that bis roll top desk, costing him $56, was sold for $45.50, or $10.60 less, to go abroad? The duty on these two ne cessary pieces of office furniture, desk and chair, in 45 per cent. For safe and otber metal office fur niture the "export agent" went to the Meilink Manufacturing company of Toledo. Its export discounts muBt be met by other manufacturers, so its prices can he taken as representative. The business man's safe, steel filling boxes, the card index and desk tele phone brackets made by the Meilink' company are sold to the "protected" business man in America for one-fifth to a th'rd more than the export price. A $75 office safe goes abroad for $18 less than t.o the American consumer. ! At 6 per cent taat meuns $1.10 a year j . - ,. for safe "protection' The $6.30 steel j in Niagara Falle Canada lnstea1 of mi. 5 ijijab i-iisi me .American tl.ua oval DISCOUNT FOR TEN DAYS WE WILL GIVE A Discount of 20 S Merchandise in Our Store This is a chance to fill in on your Silverware and Gut Glass. You know the quality of Jewelry Watches. our and EVERYTHING MARKED DOWN 20 LI III o RAMS.E TT& JEWELE R OPPOSITE HARPER HOUSE more than if he were buying for ex-j port; the $5.18 card index costs 8G cents more and the desk teknhone writln:; ii'.-i'hiin-H, while we exported ' bracket one-third more than it costs ...." 4 S wori.li. or nearly ore fourth of our entire production. Physicians, by the common consent o ordinary thi-ves. are exempt from t' eir depredations, but the protection i"tH are no reHpecte.ru of pernons or profehhions. IteRlcrs of the sick are In for export to the business man I I T ( . , ... '"i. i.eriui, i nns or lenna. The protected lead pencjl manufac turer "SOr-.ks" the "protected" Ameri. (an consumer wit,h pries 60 per cent higher th-in he is willing to sell his goods for in the world's markets. In l&ll we imported onlv J408.ir worth Niagara Falls, X. Y.: American Export Differ Price. Price, ence. Three chairs ...$168.00 $133.65 $28.35 Mirrors 240.00 199.50 40.50 Manicure tables. 12.80 10.64 2.16 Kiiuply so many more "patrio'.ic" .American citizens to be mulcted fori"' 'pd pencils, on which we paid lli enrichment of protected interest' ! duty of 45 cents ner cross nliw ct Hern. (Totals $420.SD $349.79 $71.01 ! And even the boot.black is not too humble for "protection" to rob. For an iron bootblack chair and stand i made by the same Archer Manufac turing company, which sell for export rcr cent ad valorem. This compound 1 for $119". the bootblack In America Is For most office and operating room ' '"a,p figured up to an average duty of ; charged $14.40, or an excess of $2.43 furniture the physician must pav a "!! percent. That is, we paid $159.-i that is, 20 per cent more. U'tniH of :;t least, one-fourth more than I duty on $408.113 worth of iinport.- the ;ri for which the American j Pd pencils. m;!tuif j tnier sells the same article i Meantime what was the American ;il'to; d. (if course, tli higher prices j manufacturer doing, safe from compe the doctors pay for all their office fur-: tit ion behind the prohibitive tariff Mi it ure must I." addd somewhere toia"? was charging the American ' price for watchmakers' vise No. 30 is the charires they make for their er- i consumer just as much as imported ' $2.63 if It's to go across the border, lees. pencils r.f the mire raile would cost j but one-fifth more, or $3.15, if it is to w it.ii the duty added. In addition to this. I," was exporting Just about as many pencils as we were importing. and was quoting prices for export three fifths of the price he charged al home. SENATOR PERKINS TO LEAVE PUBLIC LIFE Watchmakers and jewelers are not fcrgot.tf n when it comes to this kind of discrimination. The Prentiss Vise company is up in Watertown. N. Y., not far from the Canadian line. The Kimball The duty Is be used by an American. 45 per cent. A protect ionist government which permits manufacturers to extort hun dreds of millions of dollars of un earned profits from its citizens will Davenport Buyer Buys a Fine 111 uin s round :o. J4. is J.;.60 per; its Jt-ounce post omce scales to ever Ini f AH : gross to the Ameiiean purchaser and j American who wants to be fair wit rjnyl 1 $3.25 for export, liixon's hexagon No. the government and weigh his mai J 124 is $5 a gross at home ami $3.24 i while it, sells the same scales for e: Our "export agent" took the great "ot. if it knows it, carry a tenth of an peneil house of Dixon to prove thisf'""f'e overweight in its mails, but it. iind secured Dixon's export di; count ! does permit the Howe Scales corn sheets. Three samples will sullice. patiy of Rutland, Vt., to charge $3 for lJin's round No. 143 is $3.60 ner Its 16-ounce post office scales to every h il ex bbroad. Dixon's stenoerauher's pencil ! port for $2.57. Iff cruise over the placid waters of the Mississippi tonight, the excursionists will have, beside their nice cool " ride. all sorts of diversions to entertain them while they are "sailing along." First of all, plans are afoot for a real public wedding with Magistrate Ixmis Rcddewig as the pilot, of the engaging couple. A handsome prize 1b to go to the couple as a well-wisher from the Jolliers. Then there will be a male quartet and some real dancing. The "Hill" floor has become one of the most popular on the upper Mississippi because of the lcvelness and size and so any one who takes this, the last, trip of the season, will surely be am ply requited by the pleasure accruing therefrom. Andrew Olson is the attorney. Emily jleging cruelty. A. H. Kohler Is her N. Erickson also of Moline seeks di-j attorney. Both petitions were filed -re 'Sdiattq.-j puttqsnq jaq tuoj; aoaov today with the circuit clerk. Two Seek Divorce. Conrad Josepbson of Moline today filed suit for divorce from his wife, Myrtle, the charge being desertion. K Mjv. 1 I .... . imii i i i m is i mi ii i i i mi m ir tmm i rrnWw iyTTI'nrr I I -r.r..-. m., nil and LAST SAILINGS TO ST. LOUIS AND ST. PAUL The uMiian of 191S wilt close with the following -;il!ini?s: Steamer ' Qutnoy," leaving Rook Island fur St. Paul. Auk- 30. I p. m Sept. 4 for St. a.cl9, Bt. 12:3" p. m. Stt-amer "Ht. Vaul. lenvlnjt Rock Island for St. Paul. Sept. 4, Z p. Sept. 9 for St. I.Oui?, at 12:30 p. m. SPECIAL RATES IN SEPTEMBER. To St. Paul, trc:.p-irlntlou only. $r,.nu: round iriji, Jio.r.0. To St. Io:is. transportation onlv, $1.75: rounii trip. SA.riO. XAKi: VOl ll Sl'JTKMHEH HKKKVA I'IO.S NOW. STRECKFU3 STEAMBOAT LINE, St Louis, St. Paul, or C. J. Marfan, Agent, Rock Island. III. Telephona West 326. Eemoval Piano Sale Is Making History for the Bowlby Piano House. Is ?3.t;o a grobs if you are buying for the American, but $1.25 cheaper, or $2.25 a gross if for use abroad. Dixon's rubber raseis. bevel end, are $1.20 a The grocer too is helped to appreci ate the necessity of a fair weigh, if not a Just way, of government by bo lng compelled to pav nearly a fifth George C. Perkins. Senator Goerge C. Perkins of Cal ifornia has announced his intention to leave public life March 4, 1915, when his present term expires. He, gives failing health as the cause of! his retirement. Senator Perkins hah been In active public life more than ; 40 years. In 1869 he was elected to; the state senate, serving eight years; later he served four years as govern or of California. He has served in the Vnited States senate since 1893. ! box for home use, but we could buy more than the export price for Towe's Trices Reduced Terms Cash or Easy Monthly Pay. ments. There were Just five more pianos as few or as many as we desired to send to Newfoundland, or anywhere else on' side of the "protected". Tinted States, for M cents a box. Although the home price is 50 per cent higher, the duty is only 3,") per cent. When the American barber under- counter grocer scale No. ha Ameri con price, $8.30; export price, $!.3!. their surplus" end "to keep labor em ployed." But, sometimes manufacturers frank-1 ly tell the truth about this business , of selling abroad cheaper than at : home. At a hearing before the senate ' if there Ik a nrlnter in the land who I finance committee on Feb. 7, 1912,- is not working overtime to earn a liv- j Senator Williams asked J. D. Freder-1 ing under the aegis of "protection" let i k. representing the Kokomo Steel j him be pointed out. and let him sav and Wire company of Kokomo. Ind. if even he is satisfied to pav 11 per! "As a matter cf fact the object of roi.i. five more homes made happy j sf.inda w nat -protection" coms him I cent more for his mechanical equip- exporting is to make money, is it d liiMot-v made ycHterriay at the jle keep fjuiet? The Archer Manu-'ment than the protected manufacturer not?" . ..tn . Ilorlby Piano House. 1611 faclurln!; tom pan v of Rochester. X will sell it for abroad. The Kelsev Mr. Frederick replied: "The object .econ.l avenue. Rock Island, in that y.. wa- laten b ' be ,arifr rtforrn ! rre8S company of Merlden. Conn., is j of exporting is to make money, of Uv that nejt.r before in the 35 years . ,,..;,.,..,, -oxport aK(.ut- a8 r(.pre. doing only what other American course." , - ,1 .,11 ,B miiny plaUo",s.-ntative cf the manufacturing Indus-! manufacturers have made the general Every business and professional n.eii boia it 11111 a given time. ' y af afff.(., barber and iisi practice behind the tariff wall. The man knows that exporting is for mon- Krs Jennie Lowclen !0'?i ri-r i Ibices fcr export to the Newfoundland ! Krlsev company charges the Ameri-1 ej -muhmg, not ior pure pinianinropj . ' 1uvuefl U1X- .. . : ,. v n i.r r..r i and everv one of them known that i inaiK.'i were uoiainea. we lounu tne i?n pinn-i iuhw- - - t , Archer company and others would! the prices at which it, offered these money is mad.? on ihe btisis of export , be jutt the same-glad to knock off articles to our "export agent": ! prices or exporting wouldn't be kept; well street, Davenport, closed n deal for the highest Driced Instrument in yesterday's sale a beau- one fifth of its home market price for ' Excelsior hand cylinder press $T,0 UP- fftil colonial design Kimball Player 1 the benefit of the barber in Newfound-j I'nion rotary press 16 Piano In the finest quality of San Do- r..m;o mahogany. It Means Cash Money saved if you will take advantage of the opportunity to save on your piano purchase now. Exposition Pianos, are on sale at prices lower than ever l.rore quoted Peautiful high grade lt(J froln iuiportiri(j a 6imil , are .amous ior lone quality; unes8 n. paV8 45 Der CPnt duty The barber might a6k the American' land. or. f!r that, matter, for any bar . King job press 14 ber outside of the I'nited States. Ar- '"ictor hand press 3 cher s No. 63 chair with low erins ; Type cabinet stands 2 moveiivir. such as la found in any I . good barber shop is quoted to Ameri-; Total exce?a to protected Ameri cans at $r.b, but lf foreigners for $!f 45 Why, then, is the American consum er net entitled to "axport prices" at home? River Riplets j That grouch dispelling crew, corn- all over the world are h.-re for you to choose from. One Good Used Piano $120, $5 Cash, $5 per Month. manufacturer, or some republican con- I gressman or senator, why he must pay $2 16 more than the export price I for Archer'-, oak mnnirurp tuhla Vn l Here is your opportunity to secure , nnd Archt.r t,arDer-g oak mirror ca8e ft bargain in a thoroughly good used No. 4:s. in ,hrte sections. To the for Platio lu perf.t condition and one c.igner tne Archcr con,pany ,B wjlling that is modern and up-to-date. to ,c thi8 oulflt for j199 50 Dut tt Lo You Want a Square Piano?! home price is $240. ' V t ' 1 .1 Itln , o Vw. w. . ..ii-: -I . 1 . can printers on these five less. The manufacturer knows he articles $S5 can exAct rhiH pveesivA nrira I n.... ... - - - v , j . . . , r n . r . i cause the American barber is prchib-j we exported last vear about $1.000-: monl' known as the Jolliers, are liv- ; ar chair ono. 000 w orth of manufactured prod- I in8 UP 10 their name thus far in their , ucts wholly or partially ready for con-! plans for tfie last big excursion of! sumption. 'the season on the palatial steamer G. Some manufacturers claim that i W. Hill and from the dope that they ' they sell. abroad cheaper "to get rid of are noising abroad regarding their! he might, ask the giant Colgate cor poration cf Jersey City why he has to ray just double the export price for We have one here in good playablc condition at $3 75 cah w ith stool. Whitney Orjran in Walnut. $17. . u iui nun, ii is ery large n.,rirt.i at.r n r,- ..r.. . " octave -walnut case which i violet water. S3 per cent more for tal ot , nally com w heu new $180 In good j curu and 30 per frBf more fof w,;' "V" ,n C;J lt'V nature. On such things the ' " " ! Payne-AIdriih tariff law davs a d.nvif : about 60 per cent. Where does the barber get on, or cff. on this "protection" deal? Suppose he bought three of these chairs, the oak mirror set, ted manicure table for h'.s little shop. This Is- how his ac count would stand as compared with what he would pay for the same fur- Established 1877. titure if his thep was, for example. fiaco bow. S. W. Bowlby PIANO HOUSE, yCll Second Ave. I A WOMAN'S WISBOM. The worried mother wakes up to hear her baby's heavy fcrcathln; a little cough perhaps the croup or whooping c:iih. She does not want to send lor the doctor when perhaps the trouble does not amount to much. Finally the thinks oi that medical book her father ave her. Tie Common Senae Medical AdvUcr, by K. V. Pierce, M. D. She sayt " jut the thing to and out what ia the matter with the little dear." Two million houtcholci in this country own one and it'i to be had for ouly 31c. in ttaa.p 1,'JtXl p.tges in tpleudid cloth binding. A good fjmily adviser in any emergency. It it ft r eili.tr sex. This ia what many women ! write Ur. fierce in re&pect to h:i i tv-jntc I rescnption, a remedy which has rr.ade thouszads of melancholy aisd mi treble women cheerful and happy, by curing i.ie painf ul womanly diseases which auuermine a woman's health u.J strength. "My dc-'re is n vrite r. f.w lines to let von kn .w v. hat r.-.T valuable iui i.eine ha- d"n" t'T me." wtiu-.s Ii:s. JlaoT Zi-T.BiKT.cf i S. iV ntaion f-trwt, liaitimere, Md. "!J-f,-;re the : vrrk came t.j o-.:r hf'.in I w s a very sick woman. I wrote y-ci f ir anvirn which was kindly giv-n and which mace me a liilreut voiran in a short time. After ta'.;ir. the fir t U u.'e .f 'Favorut irPscriptiop 1 hean improving so t!..-.t I h&r;y knw I was In such a condition. I cia my own ho i-wr,- washing and lrrnin?. rooking, sewing, ari th.- w m of a'l nurM th- children v. hi hud whnon.ng coush. I han'K- kne- r,f advent ten irir.utt-s Voff.r si -ay wa It. The i.ahy Is fat as a hutvr-t;ll-Tr. I'l.-rrp's i'.:vr : I'rescrlp'Sor. it ihf uct nsi i-ln frr anv w.-,xan to ta.--c wLii iu t-J Coi;L,oa. I rocomuitisi It YOU'LL have to step lively to get in on this DOLLAR SALE The quality of the merchandise and the prices mean quick clearance it's an unusual opportunity to buy the best furnishings at a saving. Tomorrow's the last day get busy. $1 SUPERIOR ONION SUITS $ ' one of the best known, best made garments, sold regu lar! v at $1.50, with short sleeves, ankle or three-quarter 'length for Friday and ff I A A Saturday only Ji 1 Mas. Ztbut and Bazb. Fifteen dozen shirts, sold at $l.r(); the balance of our sale stock plenty of clean, neat patterns to ehooso from, sizes 14 to 181. for Friday, ? 1 A A and Saturday OI.Ul Hoys' $1.50 knieker trousers, sizes 7 to 17 years, Friday $1.00 Children's wash suits, sold at $1.50 and $1.05, ages 2 to 8, for quick clcaraiu-c, rriday and Saturday .$1.00 Children's Eton Caps, sizes 6 to 6V, formerly sold at 50c, Friday and (( Saturday 1UL Men's wear. and Satur day Porosknit all sizes, Undcr Friday 29c Boys' plain pants, $1 and $1.50 values, CA JUL for Vesta left from ruits that sold up to $35, worsteds, case'-merea. serges, Fri day and Saturday d.'f cnly .v liv One lot Brighton Garters, 25c value . . 10c Wash Four in Hands, 10c, 3 for . 25c C" o T 1 oimon (x Lanaauer Davenport, Iowa I