St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-27
AS SEEN BIZ A WOMAN.
The Mckinley IniQuity Dissected
by a Minnesota Housewife.

The Mckinley IniGuity Dissected
by Minnesota Housewife.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In the face of such assertions as are
made by MIR. Reed in the extracts of
speech given by the Pioneer Press this
morning, l am gaaded into the belief
that even woman may be justified in
throwing Off the shackles of Self-depre-
her to silence and patience while this
political contest was being waged
and giving to the public facts
which have come to her own personal
knowledge and hearthstone concerning
the workings of the infamous Mckinley
law. Mr.. Reed says: 1.-The Democrats
are bowling about high prices, but the
prices are not here; they are coming
SO the Democrats say, day after tO-mor-
row." etc. Now IL may be very possible
for a person with we'll lined pocket
book, and beyond the need of carefully
calculating daily expenses to be
the change wrought by the
Mckinley bill in the daily cost
of living. But to an every day laborer
or salaried person the difference comes
home with painful force. And more
than this, every woman in the land
who, like myself, has dear ones depend
ing on her, and no other dependence
herself than small income which allows
only for fixed weekly expenditure, re-
aliZeS to her utter disheartment that the
prices are here and are already begin
ming to be seriously felt in the diminu-
ton OF household comforts. L can
not be accused of being a howl
ing Democrat, for, aside from the
g
capable of being an intelligent political
anything by the men who lay down The
laws to govern her life and property, l
was born and raised in the Republican
faith and was early im5ued with
the profoundest veneration for the
founders of that party and faith. So it
will not be believed that speak from
Democratic standpoint when
make the simple counter asser-
ton to Mr.. Reed that | have been
met with this insidIous advance in
price in every line and branch of mer-
chandise that enters into the cOnstruc.
ton and well keeping of a home
since the first day when the Mckinley
bill became law. The advance, to be
sure, has been small in most instances,
but in the aggregate forming a sum to-
tai that l was in no way pre-
pared to meet, and have there
fore been reduced to the necessity
of either cutting down the weekly
supply or purchasing cheaper and in
ferlor articles. When l have asked. as
have, in all directions, why this in
crease was necessary on goods pur-
chased long before the Mckinley bill
went into effect. the answer has been
that each merchant had himself to pro-
tect against the advance in other lines:
and So have been furnished good
many lessons on this protective policy
of the great Republican party, and even
with woman's limited ~ intelligence
on economic questions, L have been en-
abled most forcibly to realize how uni
verSaliy was it working all along the line
from the manufacturer down. with only
the wage earnerS, the Salaried people
and the widows left out.
Let the latter class wear out their
hearts and lives in toll and discourage
mountaineering the daily leSSening of
their household comforts; the fondly
cherished hopes and plans for the adj
vancement of their loved ones blasted
that our merchants may have all the
protection they want, and the manu-
facturer wax fat in the land.
One thing, MIR. Editor, l am yet Re
publican enough to believe, and that is
that the spirit of the grand old founders
of that party-those upright. earnest
men whose souls went out in help and
sympathy everywhere to the poor and
oppressed, as against the pitiless and
strOng-iS speaking through every
tongue to-day which is brave enough to
utter protest against the tyranny, cor
ruption and greed which is being pro-
mulgated under that party name, and de-
handing the swift and utter destruction
of the men who dare to wage such an
unhOly warfare against the weak under
so pure and good a banner.
A WOMAN.
Saltwater. Oct. %.