Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-06

ETC.. the duty is enormous. and tho 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: 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 whalebones had gone up from IL
to ID cents; hornbones. from to 9;
dress shields from Is to I: and from %
to so Elastic had gone up one or two
cents a 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
s.. so
In another paragraph the Dry Goods
Economist says this for the ladies: 'sAs
a rule ladies are proverbially indiffer-
emit to politics, but when they find out,
as they are now doing, that something
has been done by the politicians which
results in adding from 20 to % per cent
to their lressmaker's and millinery
| frills, we fancy that we shall hear from
| the disenfranchised sex in tones that no
judicious man will be likely to ignore Z"
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
/ olr - tn, he inf
Il The consumer has to take his
chances.
The same paper makes the following
| statement:
| Manufacturers OF upholstery goods are
complaining bitterly against the operation
| of the Mckinley bill in necessitating % pei
| cent advance on the price consumers
| large proportion OF the yarns used In this
| industry are spun in Ireland. upon which
| the new tariff law advances duties to Is pei
| cent and three cents per pound.
| The New York Oil, Paint and Drug
Reporter is protectionist trade pape,
for the lines indicated by its name
Here are some items from its market re-
ports in it's number for October 8. o.
window glass it says:
It is reported that all the large Western
jobbers have been in Pittsburgh the pas
| week anxious to place contracts in anticipa'
ton OF an early rise in values.
|
gone into effect is held for higher prices
Phosphorus is ten cents per pound higher
| that being the extent of the increase o
| duty by the new tariff.
Sumac-A steady tone has prevailed. and
in consequence of increased duties. price.
have advanced somewhat"
On the con trary, it gives the prices o.
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 a lower rat
of duty, market prices have been reduced.
Rape seed also pays a lower rate of dut,
and in consequence has declined to 4la cent
for English and 3ls cents for German
Chloroform-Prices have not been affeete
by the cut of one-half in the du Y, the N e,
rate being practically prob ibi tory.
These are some of the first fruits of tn
Mckinley bill, as stated in non-politica
trade papers in their market reports
Will the National Republican Com
mittee set these things down as ''Demo
cratic talk. " and nothing but downright
falseh ood?''
Mckinley says: cit is only in orde
now to watch for the benefcences whic
the new tariff law is bound to work
Here are the 'sbeneficences''-just wha
Mckinley wants, since he says else
where, "we want no return to chea
: times in our own country"
J But what do the people say? Do the
} want to pay these higher prices?
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