The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-11-07
A.onER PRICES.


smile. anu LIST slae People Say What They
Think.
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee has flooded the country with
campaign document which contains.
among many other rash statements, the
following astounding assertions.
That all this Democratic talk about
increased taxation to the people IS
nothing but downright falsehood-
That the consumer will appreciate
the existence of a new tariff law only
by its results in the reduction of his
necessary household expenses"
But. brethren, you promised too IN uchs
and the best answer that can be made
to your extravagant promises is to quote
e few cold facts from the trade papers
as to the rise in prices caused by the
Mckinley bill These quotations shall
be from papers printed day or two be-
fore and after the Mckinley bill went
into effect
The first is the New York Dry Goods
Economist. protective paper, and the
great organ of the dry goods trade in
this country. Here are a few facts from
its issue OF October 4, the last day under
the old Tariff law:
Its columns of Briefs" begins thus:
1.-THE motto of prices just nOw-Excel-
aiori'
A prominent headline is: THE Tariff
and Prices-A General Advance all
Along the Line" IN the article which
follows facts are stated as to the adj
vance in prices, and the opinions of
prominent merchants are quoted as to
future advances.
A member of one of the largest inn
porting houses said: Dress goods are
fully 10 to Is per cent higher. The
advance in velvets is all the way up to
25 per cent, and SO tits also on the low
est grades of pushes" These are the
goods OF the poorer people;-how about
those for the rich? mo advance in the
finest qualities of velvets-"
Another merchan said: Cotton prints
have risen about 10 per cent Among
the articles which have been most af-
fected are ginghams which contain some
silk. The price of these goods has gone
up fully so per cent'-the duty having
been increased, as he says, 10 cents a
yard.
Mr.. John Clafiin, of very prominent
Republican firm says; ''Woollens will
advance about 10 per cent, at least tenn
porarily."
Evidently the Republican committee
at Washington had not consulted Mr..
Clafiin before issuing its boasting cir
-cular.
Mr.. McKeever said: 'All low grades
of textile fabrics have been materially
affected. = The increase in worsteds
the advance in price is from 1919 to is
per cent On cloakings, astrachans,
etc, the duty is enormous, and the low
er grades will be so per cent higher"
These are wholesale rates, but the ar
ticle gives some facts about the retail
trade, saying: 1.-THE retailers have been
slowly but surely increasing the prices
of various, if not all, goods owing to the
tariff" Some of the details given are
that Ehalebones had gone up from IT
to IS cents; bones, from to Q;
dress shields, from Is to It and from IS
to 80. Elastic had gone up one or two
cents yard. Linen goods of every
kind have careered upward, also hosiery,
underwear. etc"
Pearl buttons had already been
doubled in prices during the past few
months, and the tariff had just caused
an additional rise of 35 per cent, with
an equal rise to follow soon That is to
say dollars worth of pearl buttons
under the old tariff will now be sold for
81. So
In another paragraph the Dry Goods
Economist says this for the ladies': "As
rule ladies are proYerbially indiffer-
ent to politics, but when they find out.
IS they are now doing, that some thing
has been done by the politicians which
results in adding from 20 to 25 per cent
to their dressmaker's and millinery
the disenfranchise sex in tones that no
;udicious man will be likely to ignore "
The New York Commercial Bulletin
confirms the advance on pearl buttons,
notes the advance on carpets, and says
In regard to the general advance:
Congress has made room for scores of
| combinations and trusts. some of which
/ already appear to be getting into operation.
ihe consumer has to take his
The same paper makes the following
| statement:
Manufacturers of upholstery goods are
complaining bitterly against the operation
| of the Mckinley bill in necessItating rs per
| cent advance on the price to consumers.
large proportion of the yarns used in this
Industry are spun in Ireland. upon which
/ the new tariff law advances duties to Is per
cent and three cents per pound.
The New York Oil, Paint and Drug
| Reporter is a protectiOnist trade paper
for the lines indicated by its name.
Here are some items from its market re-
ports in its number for October g. Oh
window glass it says:
1t is reported ihRt all the large Western
lobbers have been in Pittsburgh the past
| week anxious to place contracts In anticipa-
tion of an early rise in values
/ Cod liver oil, now that tho new duty has
| gone into effect. is held for higher prices
| Phosphorus is ten cents per pound higher.
that being the extent of the Increase OF
| duty by the new tariff
Sumac-A steady tone has prevailed and,
| In consequence of Increased duties, prices
have advanced somewhat"
On the contrary. it gives the prices of
some articles on which the duty was re-
duced; and the lower price here shows,
in the opposite direction, how the tariff
| is tax.
| Here are the items referred to:
Hemp seed being admitted at lower rate
| of duty. market prices have been reduced
| Rape seed also pays lower rate of duty
| and in consequence mas declined TO 4t5 cents
| for English and 3i5 cents for German
ChlorOform-Prices have not been affected
by the cut of one half in the du y, the new
rate being practically prohfbitory.
These are some of the first fruits of the
Mckinley bill. as stated in non-poiitical
trade papers in their market reports
| Will the National Republican Com
| mittee set these things down as Demo
| cratic talk, and nothing but downright
| falsehood?''
Mckinley says: 1T is only in order
I now to watch for the beneficences which
/ the new tariff law is bound to work. ~
Here are the ''bene fcences''-just what
! Mckinley wants, since he says else
| where, 1--WE want no return to cheap
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