Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-14

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roted the advance in all kinds OF
needles IS per cent. ad valorem. ms
is the way the Mckinley bill discourages
the use of knitting and sewing. Ot
course, this is meant for those poor
people who can't afford TO sew and knit.
Poor people, Mckinley seems to think,
do not do such things. Perhaps Nc
Kinley and his apologists can persuade
some people that needles are luxury.
A dry goods merchant said pushes
and velvets would advance very materl-
ally. in some instances the increase
being % to 90 per cent. over prices
heretofore ruling.
HARDWARE, ETC.
Workingmen who were led to believe
that Mckinley was their friend are not
satisfied with the manner in which the
Ohioan has expressed his love; and right
here again, in the line Of hardware
Said one local dealer: Il believe
American manufacturers OF hardware
will take advantage of the tax on home
made wares, that do not come in direct
competition with foreign goods OF the
same kind. This class of goods will go
up in price, in sympathy with imported
wares, and further, that the two classes
of people that will be affected the most
will be the manufacturers and consum-
ers. The consumer will pay a tax which
will go to the producer. This is the long
and the short of the Mckinley tax on
hardware.
By reference to that part OF the Nc
Kinley's measure which deals with the
hardware it will be seen that the author
of the vicious bill has followed out his
general plan OF bearing the poor In
mind. He does this by making the tax
heaviest on those articles which the
working people are most likely to use.
On table knives, forks, Steels and butch
ers, kitchen, bread, butter, vegetable
and cheeze knives, valued between 81
and 81 a dozen, in addition TO 30 per
cent, an ad valOrem duty is charged.
Every man who earns his bread by nara
work must pay an additional tax OF 80
Der cent. on the knife he cuts his bread
with. and If he can afford an extra knife
with which to cut his meat he must
nav McKinley's tax for the privilege.
He NAV be able to get along
without pocket knife, but II he
carry one he must ante up about 90 per
cent more to conform TO McKinley's ex-
tortionate bill. Any one who can afford
to have knives and forks on his table Is
able, according to Mckinley, to pay
tax and encourage the manufacturer.
Said another hardware merchant:
Tools of all kinds are held higher to-
day than they were before the passage
OF the Mckinley bill, and there is every
prospect that still higher prices will be
Everybody will be obliged to pay
more for stoves this winter than a year
ago, and it is all on account OF the Me-
Kinley bill. Said a member OF one
of the stove firms on Main street;
"There is no direct raise in the tariff on
stoves, but the prices will go up just
the same. A great deal OF the material
which enters into the manufacture OF
stoves remains the same as ii did before
the Mckinley bill was passed, but there
is slight advance on some OF the ma
terial, like iron and tin, and that Will
strengthen lllt FllNt VI SNNNNo'
CIGARS.
Tobacco is an article Of general con-
and any increase in its price
directly and Immediately effects very
large number of people.
A gentleman who had been in the
habit OF smoking favorite brand OF
cigars known rs the "Mouser" called
for one as usual at a large tobacco store
last evening. 1t is ten cent domestic
cigar. with an imported wrapper.
''Well," said the proprietor, 'if you
want to get these cigars at the old
figures, you'd better lay in 4 stock now.
You won't be able to get them 50 cheap
Ia a week or so, as the new tariff law
sends them up Sky-high."
Yes, this is just what the new Mckin-
ey bill is doing. There are some eight
or nine places in Wheeling where i'm
ported cigars can be bought. and il is
these firms that are more directly in
lerested. The advance in price is rem
icred necessary by the new tariff bill
which imposes 4 duty OF 81 pound on
III imported cigars and leaf tobacco.
MY opinion is, said one cigar dealer,
that five and ten cent cigars will not
be increased in price, but will be de-
,rcased in quality, and that Sumatra
wrappers will not be used at all on five
cent cigars. Henry Clays, which have
been selling two for quarter, will
likely be fifteen cents each, and three
Tor fifty cents will be twenty-five cents
zach. Cigars which formerly cost
;eventy-ive cents pound, under the
new tariff bill will cost So. 75."
Hugo l.. LOos was of the opinion that
he five-cent cigar would hereafter be
made out of Pennsylvania tobacco,
which is perhaps as good in some re-
respects. but it makes very homely
cooking cigar. The etfectof the increase
IN imported cigars and leaf tobacco, will,
believe, effect even the In
Ierior grades of domestic cigars
rom the very fact that the
imported wrapper, and even all the lit
lie imported scraps which we used to
weave into domestics will either have to
Do taken out Of the cigar, or the cigar
increased in price. Even the stogies
will be effected. The result is the peo-
Die are liable to smoke mighty mean
scent cigar.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
le new tariff bill also gets in its
" K in the drug business, in which
.ge number of imported articles are
used, and here also is where the disas-
.rouS effects of the new measure Is felt.
Many of the well known compounds and
medicines most used by the masses in
pains and repelling sickness
have advanced to figure where 1t be-
zones 4 serious question with the arti-
IAN and laborer-a question whether
hey will grin and bear the ills they
have. or heap trouble upon trouble by
lying into the embrace of chill penury.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
A musician OF this city recently wrote
10 Philadelphia manufacturer, with n
view to purchasing an instrument He
received the following reply:
lowing to the Tariff bill, all instruments
are advancing. There has been raise IN
all materials, and we can't tell how fur it
may raise yet"
And so il you have any new musical
Instruments in your homes hereafter
you've got to pay for them.
OTHER ADVANCES.
Barnes Il McGregor, on Main street,
report that toys have taken a jump; also
china goods, cut glass prisms, and Ger
man student lamp chimneyS.
A local firm dealing in fine glass and
mirrors yesterday received the following
from the Cleveland Window Glass Com
pany!-
The passage OF the Mckinley Tariff liill
~ ,bo Hnite1 States senate and ingrease OF