If we exacted a 40 percent duty, or $400, and if France should grab an additional $2000 for export duty, the German machine could still be sold in New York for $3400, or about $800 less than an American-made machine. It is easy enough to see in such a contrast the tremendous economic advantage Germany has. Nor is it so hard to explain, either, for the American workman making these machines gets $8 a day, enough to buy 80 loaves of good white bread. The German workman gets for a whole week's labor a number of marks, changing from month to month, but generally sufficient to buy 40 loaves of black bread, the whole of it worth about $3 in gold. It will be seen that the German workman is not as well provided for as our slaves were before emancipation.
Now France wants Germany to pay a large indemnity. Germany can pay it by exporting and selling in our country and other lands such products this linotype machine of which we have been speaking. Therefore, if she pays, our nation and the rest must buy these German-made products, which means that our own workmen must be idle. If Germany pays, we must let her workmen work as slaves while ours languish in idleness.
Like every other European solution of Europe's problems, this finally makes us the goat. They are all looking to the dear old United States to make another grand sacrifice. — Statesman.
Tighten Your Wheels
Take your loose automobile wheels to Chris. Anderson and he will take the squeak out of them.
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