St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-27
THE POOR MUST PAY.
Heavy Advance in Dry Goods
Caused by the Mckinley
Bill.
Local Dealers Tell How the
Burden Falls on the Con-
sumner.
Minnesota Congressman All
Voted for the Great
Iniquity,
Which Robs st. Paul People
for the Benefit of Eastern
Monopoly.
Buy your dry goods now.

Ibis the Mckinney Dill.
The advance, with winter coming on,
will make great many people open
their eyes. 1t will affect not only i'm
ported goods, but nearly every line of
domestic manufacture, and will tell
upon the pocket of every householder
of st. Paul. 1t is the direct effect of the
tariff bill engineered by Maj. McKin-
ley. The new price will probably go
on about the advent of cold weather,
though with jobbers and importers it
will be felt the moment the Mckinley
bill goes into effect.
Congressman Snider voted for this
bill.
To the purchasing public this is quite
serious news. Jack Frostis memorable,
and billiards demand overcoats, without
any regard to the price of garments,
and the great wholesale houses through
out the country have made up their
minds that wraps and clothing of every
kind must go up irrespective of the con-
ditiOn Of pocketbOoks. Just how many
lines of dry goods will be marked up
cannot be stated, but it is certain that
several lines are affected. This sitUa-
ton has been caused by and is directly
due to that wonderful and highly COM
pIicated piece of legislative jugglery
known as the Mckinley bill. While
there is no combination among
the wholesale trader. nor so
far as can be learned, agree
ment of any kind as regards a
concerted movement, the rise in price,
it Is expected, will be almost simultane-
GUS in all the great wholesale houses
in the principal cities all over the coun-
try. The retailers will follow snit. and
buyers in st. Paul may at once expect
to pay an average of 20 per cent adj
line they may need for the winter.
The burden will fall entirely upon
the consumer. The importer and the
Jobber and the retailer suffer nothing,
and the burden laid by the McKinlev
bill must be borne entirely by the con-
Sumer.
Every Repu lican congressman of
Minnesota voted for the Mckinley bill.
st. Paul dry goods merchants, with
one accord, say there must be a heavy
increase, and most of them den0unce
the Mckinley bill in round language.
cit is undoubtedly true. said t. G.
there will be general and radical adj
all goods that are imported. 1t is the
direct effect of the Mckinley bill, the
greatest folly-even fraud-that has
ever been perpetrated. This advance
may be delayed awhile because the de-
lay in the passage of the bill enabled
importers to stock up largely, and this
stock must be sold. But it will be but
short while until the advance comes
all along the line-an advance of from
10 to 90 per cent"
"Who will have to pay this advance.
MIR. Field?"
THE burden will fall upon the buyer,
certainly. He alone must pay the adj
vance, as the importer, the jobber and
the retailer will make the same profit.
There is where the nonsense of this Nc
Kinley bill comes in. [ have been q
lifelong Republican. but / am like
thousands of other Republicans-in the
last ditch. l could point out such men
in New York as Mr.. Constable, of Ar
mold Constable q Co., and others, VINO
are utterly Disguised with their party
| on the tariff question. Who could have
believed that the tariff revision prom
ised by the Republican party meant an
increase OF the burden? l tell you, MIR.
| Blaine with his reciprocity views is
| nearer free trade than any Democrat |
| know"
D. S. Hall voted for the Mckinley bill.
| Charles Schuneman, of Schuneman IL
Evans, said of the matter: 1.-THE out
| rage of the Mckinley bill is that it's
| burdens are aimed at the poorer classes.
| 1t apparently discriminates in favor of
| the rich by tightening the tariff placed
on goods which they alone eau afford to
wear. 1t makes the duty higher on the
cheap stoc kings of the poor than OH the
silk hose OF the rich.''
Twill there be an advance in dry
goods?"
! ''All along the line and from Is to 25
of the schedules increased the duty for
| the most part. In some lines of linen,
for instance, the new tariff is so high as
to be absolutely prohibitive in its effect.
The woolenS suffer very much and the
price will go I'D accordingly. But it is
not alone on imported goods that this
increase will go; all protected domestic
fabrics will rise accordingly"
"What do you think Of the Mckinley
bill?''
Il think it an outrage on the people
who have to pay the price exacted by
Eastern manufacturers. 1t is being felt
already. l have no doubt the stringency
in Eastern money markets is largely
due to the demand for money to be in
vested in goods before the Mckinley
bill runs up the price,"
NJ. HI. Dunnell voted for the McKin
ley bill.
Gustave Heinemann said it was i'm
doubtedly true that prices would go up
How will it affect me? Well, suppose
had stock of goods worth S1O0,0Ot
and the Mckinley bill raised prices 2;
| per cent; the result would be that !
would be worth S125,000."
''Who must pay the extra S25, COOP"
"The consumer. beyond all doubt
Whether the consumer would get il
back again am not prepared to say
but many argue that he would. 1t i:
certain, however, that, if there is any
burden, it falls on the general pub
lie who must buy the goods"
''Is the increase not likely to come or
in anticipation of the biII?" was asked
lit may III some cases, but not as {
general thing. That will all be regulated
by the condition of each individual
firms business. If firm has low
while if there is a heavy stock of un
seasonable goods on hand which mus
be disposed of prices on that line o.
goods are not likely to be marked up
Then much will depend upon the policy
deemed best by each firm in regard tt
the disposal of their stock and so-forth
but there is not any doubt that th,
price is bound to go up some time in TIN
near future as result of the protective
legislation
"What classes of goods are going t
be affected?'
81 could not give you list of them
but may say in general way that al
imported goods OH which the duty
| N n q n or
| which are protected by the tariff bill
OF course this is but the natural resul
of that kind of legislation. If raw ma
teriaI cannot be imported withou
heavily increased duties, gaods manu-
| featured from such material must b
affected in price by it. Again, good
manufactured must go up in price whel
the same line of foreign manufacture
goods are kept out by a heavy Pre-