Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-06-25
Mckinley Prices.

! The Mckinley prices are not popular
among Americans in Paris, it eeems. They
see, what their countrymeu as home see,
that Mckinley prices are going to be a
good deal higher than present prices. One
| American business man writes in sester-
days Paris New York Herald
'If the Mckinley bill passes, beware, ye
husbands who helped to elect the party in
power. You have prepared hot time for
yourselves. The American woman has
great common sense. You can't fool her
as to the immense benefits the people at
large are TO derive from that law when she
sees placards in the shops :-''Woollen
dress goods advanced from twenty-five to
thirty cents yard owing to the Mckinley
Tariff bill; jet buttons from ten to thirty
cents dozen owing to the Mckinley Tar
iff bill; velvets advanced to five dollars a
and so all along the line-china, glassware
and everything. Shopkeeprs ought to adopt
universally all over the United States this
plan of advertising the rise in prices to
their customers, with the reasons for it
the Mckinley bill. If that is done the Ia
dies will noAgo home in the easiest frame
of mind, and ifat the next election the po-
liticsl frauds who want to protect the
American people by making everything
dear are not swept out of sight it will not
be the fault of the American women.
A BUSINESS MAN.
This American business man is right.
The Senate is understood to be making few
changes in the Mckinley bill, and when
that bill becomes law it will be found
that American women are thes greatest
sufferers by it. They will have to pay Nc.
Kinley prices for all they buy to dress and
cover themselves and their children with,
and the less money they have to spend the
higher prices they must pay.
For it is a popularity of the Mckinley
bill that it raises the present high tariff
taxes more on the goods used and worn by
the wageworkers and their fam lilies than on
those used and worn by the rich.
Mckinley prices are going to cut big
figure in the fall campaign. The tariff re-
form organic atoms are preparing schedules
of Mckinley prices to be sent to shopkeep-
ers, farmers and mechanics all over the
country as soon as the Mckinley bill,
Senate, becomes law. Then the people
in all the States and all the avocations will
be shown in plain terms and figures how
Mckinley prices compare with present pri- |
ces on blankets and fisnnels, on trousers
and overcoats, on coats and stockings, on |
woman's woollen and cotton dress goods, on |
carpets, dishes, glassware, on lime and c.
ment for houses and window glass for light, |
on table and pocket knives, razors and |
matches, on tin cans, on all kinds of paints |
and paint materials used for painting hous-
es and barns; on everything, in fact, which |
a mechanic or farmer uses and must use.
There is surplus this year, left over
from the Cleveland appropriations, of nine
ty two millions But the republicans have |
made such extravagant appropriations for |
next year that the whole of this great sum i
is swept away, and they talk of stopping |
payment on the sinking fund and using /
trust funds besides to prevent deficit. Be,
to make up for the republican waste and
iobbery the people must suffer Mckinley
prices. The duty on wool, unreasonably
high at present, is heavily increased; the
duty on wooden yarns il doubled, and the
duty on blankets and woollen stuffs is
doubled, and on some of the cheaper quail
lies, those most used By the poor, is nearly
,rebled. On some of these goods in uni
7ersal use the duty is run up to one hun
lred and fifty per cent. Mckinley prices
IN houses will be made by the increased
luty on lime and cement-double the pres
mt rates-and by increased duties on brick
Ind tiles and by higher duties on glass.
prices on the poor mans kitchen
will be higher by the increased duties on
pottery and on glassware, that on common
glassware being increased in some cases by
more than hundred per cent; Mckinley
prices on the poor mans clothing and bed
ling will be made higher by heavily in.
creased duties ,on blankets, coatings-ip
act, on all that he and his wife and family
wear or need to keep them warm in winter
)r cool in summer.
Mckinley prices will cut big figure in
he fall campaign.-N. Y. Herald.