The Iola register., 1890-11-07
DOESN'T RAISE PRICES.

DOESN'T RAISE PRICES.
The question of whether or not the
effect of the Mckinley bill will be to
raise the price of the common nec-
essaries of life, is still of general in
terest even if discussion of it can no
longer have any result on the election.
And so we quote extracts from letter
written by F. w. Reed, a veteran dry
goods man of Lawrence, to the Jour-
nal of that place. 1t was written in
reply to free trade appeal from Mr..
Innes, another dry-goods man of the
same city:
In last evenings Record my friend
Geo. Innes used about one and one
half columns of its valuable space to
prove my assertion in certain adver-
tisement of the day before was truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth and admits himself that dry
goods are no higher In this market ON
account of the Mckinley bill.
Mr.. Innes receives a good many
letters and circulars regarding the
prices of dry goods since the McKin-
ley bill went into effect and has print
ed i'm the paper those circulars for
your benefit which he receives from
free trade importers IN the east who
are raising heaven and earth to sd-
vance the price of dry goods on the
western people and 1t seems 10 me
that when he has those and those
only printed he Is trying to help these
same unscrupulous manufacturers and
English importers raise the price on
you. I also receive many circulars
and price lists and will now quote the
other side.
John V. Farwell & Co says: ave
will put on sale October 18th the en-
tire production of Cochico Ottomon
cloths (which is \ twilled dress goods
25 inches wide) at So cents per yard
pieces or case" When was i'm Chi
cago, i'm September, before the Nc
Kinley bill passed, II I had had car
load of gold 1 could not have bought
a piece or case of these goods for less
than cents.
Carsan, Piesie, Scott 4 Co. send
me word that on October I'D they
will put on sale 200 cases of full stand
ard prints under their original tickets
at the unprecedented price of 5 cents
yard. Every merchant knows that
before the Mckinley bill passed stand
ard prints were cents.
Now comes the III. B. Claflin COM
pany with telegram to me from the
City, and to those who do not know, I
will say the HI. b. Clafiin company Is
the largest wholesale dry goods house
In the United States of America.
They wire as follows:
"F. w. Reed, Lawrence, Ks:
"On Monday, October 10th, we will
put on sale the entire production of
Manchester ceclian cloths at 5 5-8
cents. Dark shades and light"
Before the Mckinley bill became q
law these goods were very firm.
Fourteen days after they dropped 20
per cent.
Now, being in the same business, it
Is reasonable for me to suppose that
Mr.. Innes got every one Of the above
notices that received, notifying him
of the decline of cotton goods since the
Mckinley bill went into effect, but he
don't tell you of it; 1t Is not his party's
politics to do that.
Hosiery, fast black imported hosiery
is very scarce. bought good line
of an importing house August 10, 1890.
Ten days ago found my assortment
getting broken, and wrote the house
an order for % dozen of the same kind,
Indicating the sizes I wanted, aud
said: "Ship these goods IL can have
them at the same price you charged
me August, 10th, not otherwise" ]
oof the hosiery bill with no comments.
The tariff on hosiery, especially Inn
ported hosiery, is way up you under
stand.
He says he has just paid 2 1-2 cents
a pound more for wool blankets than
he did in September. Why did you
not add I then got them 1-2 cents
per pound cheaper than I could three
or four years ago under the lower
tariff schedule?
1 can't see how you came to give