St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-05
UP PRICES ARE GOING.
Eastern Manufacturers Get
ting Ready For a Right
Royal Time.
Prices of Goods Rising to
Enormous and Outrage
Gus Figures.
The Mckinley Tariff Law Re-
Sponsible For This Ex-
pert Thievery.
Citizens Can Judge Who Are
the Friends of the Menop-
OliSts.

Evidence continues to DOu in Show
ing the gross iniquity of the Mckinley
tariff law. That that law has been
passed solely in the interest of monopo-
lists, who subsidized the Republican
party by enormous subscriptions to the
national campaign fund of 1888, is be-
coming day by day more apparent. How
the professional man-the man who is
earning from $500 to Sc, 200 per year, and
they compose the backbone Of the pro-
fessional class--how such a man can
support the Republican party is a mys-
terry. 1t is a greater mystery how a
mechanic or an ordinary day laborer
can support that party. Here is winter
fast approaching. The workers of the
West, it is true, have been fairly we'll
employed this year, but there has been
no appreciable increase in wages. paid.
The rate of wages to-day is the
same as that paid last year:
and yet what a different prospect
is presented the -wage-earner to-day
from what was presented last fall. Not
w~ithStanding his purchase power has
not been increased, he finds that wear
Ing apparel OF every description has
been increased, as WILL as all that per-
tainS to make life more endurable.
Whatever winter clothing man, m
or child may require this fall, a price
averaged from Is to 25 and even 80 per
cent extra will have to be paid on last
years figures. And this is done to re-
coup the Golfers Of the manufacturers
who placed the piouS Mr.. Harrison in
the white house.
The GLOBE, by interviews with prom.
inent tradesmen and merchants of the
city, Republican and Democrat alike,
has shown how the prices of dry goods,
drugs and glassware have increased by
Ii to 40 per cent, and, in the case of
light glass. 600 per cent. To bring the
iniauity OF a protective tariff more
forcibly home. the following circulars
received by local tradesmen from East
ern manufacturers will be of excellent
service. The first, dated Sept. 80, is
from FL. A. Caesar & Co.. of 454 BrOome
street, New York. and reads:
Under new tariff advance will be about:
Velvet, plain, 12l2 to l7l2 cents.
Velvet, croise, 5 to ID cents.
Pushes, 1919 to 20 cents.
We hope you are, like ourselves, raising
prices.
Blumenthal Bros. & Co., importers
and manufacturers of ladies' cloaks and
mantleS. ASP Broadway, New York. Sept.
80, write:
The Mckinley bill. as reported from the
conference committee, will advance the price
OF seal plushes from 80 to 80 per cent. so
that plushes by the yard which have cost SIS
will cost from St. so TO S6-75 under the new
tariff law. We will be obliged, consequently,
to advance the prices of all plush garments
from 10 to Is per cent, so that the cost of a
| plush jacket, instead of 80 as formerly, will
| be SlU now. The cost of a plush sacque at
| $40 formerly will be $685. 50 now, etc.
| A.. Elilnger q Co., manufacturers of
cloaks, 27S-2S6 East Madison street,
Chicago, write Oct. 9:
We have this day advanced the price for
| future orders on plush garments you have
had.
A Friedlander & Co., importers and
manufacturers, ST and 379BroadWay,
New York, Sept. 30, wrote:
In consequence of the increase OF the tariff.
caused by the passage of the Mckinley bill,
we are compelled to advance the prices of all
our plush garments sufficient TO cover the
additional cost.
Who pays this increase
Why, the people pay 1.-THE poor
people.
Not only will the ~wage-earner have
difficulty In procuring adequate clothes;
his purchasing power is also straight
ened in articles to add to the beauty and
comfort of his home. There is no doubt
about this. E. Scott, of st. Paul Car
pet company, yesterday said notice had
been received from leading carpet man.
ufacturers of the country giving an adj
vance of from % to 10 tents on carpets,
taking effect Oct. 6. This is caused by
the advance of wool and yarn by the
Mckinley tariff law. Then, again,
Messrs. Smith IL Farwell are in receipt
of the following from Swire & Scott,
manufacturers of art squares. ingram
~carpetingS. Philadelphia:
On and after this day, (Oet. IL all orders
will be filled at value only. Owing to the
great advance of raw material we are COM
PEELED to take this course
These are cold facts 1t is the duty of
every man-every citizen and voter-to
weigh them carefully and intelligentIy.
He should also remember that but for
the assistance of the five congressman
from Minnesota the Mckinley bill
would never have become a law. If he
does he can cOme to but one conclusion,
and that is to vote the Democratic
ticket, state. congressional and county.
Every vote thus dropped into the ballot
box is a silent protest against the rob
berry of the poor for the benefit of the
bloated ~monopolist. The defeat of the
Republican ticket in Minnesota would
carry with it an excellent effect upon
citizens of every state in the Union, and
be the fOrerunner of a determined effort
to throw off, once for att, the power of
theb oodIer, the corruptionist and the
m%onopolist in the government of the
country.