Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-10-10

They have heard Of lad valorem'' and
Specie duties, of SCHEDULES"
''scales. "custom duties" and all the
other technical terms that character
ise dise:ussiog of the question. They
have glanced over the long, tedious
and tiresome proceedings of legislation
on the subject, and have thrown aside
the paper with = sigh Of relief. The
subject seemed 50 deep and the effect
20 remote, that it was not considered
worth the time spent in studying. The
tariff was regarded as . something for
statesmen to wrangle over, for college
professors to theorize upon, and the
people would go.on about their bust
ness, believing that = thing, about
which there was so much theory, could
not injure them in any way. They had
heard the word atariff" upon the tongue
Of every orator, dry-goods-box politi-
clan and in the columns of every news
paper for the past four years. yet all
this did not seem to materially change
their business nor effect them, and 50
they concluded that the tsriff was more
Of . scare crow than an animated
thing, capable Of dealing a terrible
blow at their prosperity. Some re-
garded it as thing in which only the
east Was interested. Others accepted
the statement that it was . local affair.
Some thought that an increase of du-
ties would lower prices, others that
either raising or lowering them would
not Affect % way out here.
Out Of all this discussion has emerg-
ed the Mckinley tariff bill-a living.
breathing, incontrovertible witness that
. tariff robs the people. For once we
do not have to 60 to the custom house
in New York for evidence. We do
not have to take the word of politicians
nor newspapers nor the vagueriee of
theorists. The evidence has been
brought home to US in . manner that
neither the wise man nor the fool can
deny.
On Saturday, October 4th, the Kan
sas City Star contained. an advertise
ment Of the great dry goods house of
Bullene, Moore, Emery & Co. Here
is one of the extracts of that adj:
'The Mckinley bill has passed.
Importers and manufacturers are wir-
ing all over the country to their agents
to advance prices"
II will be noticed that it says manu-
faoturings are wiring to advance prices.
Here Is another extract:
"The Mckinley tariff bill, which
goes into effect Monday, increases the
tazif on linens from IS to so per cent.
Here arc more showing the effect
the bill will have on the different
classes of merchandise:
"Cloths that we will sell in this
sale Monday for 50. So, under the new
tariff bill we will have to sell for $40.
Cloths that we will sell in this sale for
1922, under the new tariff bill we will
have to sell for 1907. Cloths that we |
will sell in this sale for 5000, under
the new tariff bill We will have to sell |
for 1882.
The head of this firm, Mr.. Bullene,
ran for congress two years sgo As q re-
publican, 50 that no one can claim that |
the advertisement emanates from free |
trader. But these prices are given,
not Is an argument for or against pro-
lection, but in order to draw trade.
They are facts that no argument can
controvert.
But this argument was produced At
Kansas City, 369 miles away. We do
not have to 70 that far, but can bring
the argument right home. Below We
give letter received by A. F. Hallett,
dealer in tinware, queensware, notions,
ETC., in this city. The letter is from
James Monahan, the great tinware
dealer of Chictgo, and is as follows:
CHICAGO, September 80. 1890.
Mr.. A. F. Hallett,
Dear sir:-Owing to the great ad-
vance in price (about 80 per cent? am
cd IN NM OH = l
per cent, which hope you will cons1d-
er reasonable. Respectfully,
JAMES MoNAHAN.
This letter was written before the
bill went into effect and the 5 per cent.
advance was in anticipation Of the 30
per cent. advance which has since fol-
lowed.
Mr.. Hallett also received a notice
from his New York house, dealing in
pottery and glassware that prices on
this class Of goods will advance some
50 per cent.
The Mckinley bill is going to do
what newspapers, orators, pamphlets
and books have failed to do-bring the
baleful effects Of the tariff home to the
people. When farmer goes into a
store and finds the familiar price Of an
article increased from % to so per
cent, the effects and more lasting and
convincing than the assertions Of .
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