The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

is a tax and raises pricesto the con-
sumer. That is their theory, but
here is the Mckinley condition OF
things:
No articles of ready made cloth
ing are sold in South Bend now at
any higher prices than they were last
June, and many can be bought chea-
per.
In dry goods, al. lines are almost
the same prices as last year and
many are lower. In one store we
find yard Of unbleached muslin
selling at S cents yard. Last June
the price was cents An indigo
blue calico that was 6 cents last June
is s cents now. A bed-ticking that
sold for IS cents yard last June is
X cents now. A cotton flannel that
was 10 cents last June is now 9 cts.
A fine or all wool Louisville flannel
that cost the merchant 2I3 cents
last June he bought this June for 20
cents. In both instances the retail
price is IS cents. A wool feeced
that cost him 27 cents last year is
cents cheaper this year. On dress
goods that retailed last year at IS to
50 cents yard he has to pay from
to cents more, but the retail
price is the same. A table linen he
got for 40 cents last season cost him
42} cents this year. He sold it at
50 cents last year and sells it the
same to-day. Pearl buttons cost
him a trife more, but the retail price
is the same. Stock A grain bags
are 20 cents this harvest; last har-
vest they were 81 cents.
In shoes there are no higher
prices, and many lines are cheaper.
One merchant said he paid IS cents
a pair less. this year for mems kanga-
roo shoes than he did last year
Last year the retail price was s.. so
to 81, and this year it is S. to $3.50.
A Reynolds shoe for ladies' that sold
at $3.50 to 81 last year is now sold
at S..
In glassware, crockery and tin
ware there is no advance in prices,
and some are cheaper. Tin cups
last season were 80 cents a dozen,
wash basins 8 cents each, 6.quart
milk pans 8 cents each, dish pans 20
certs each, and are the same this
year. The 10, gallon fin pals which
sold at IS cents last year can be
bought at II cents this year drop
of 2 cents. So it will be seen that
''the tin-plate liar " of last October
deserved his title. One article Of
glassware was found higher at whole
sale than last season, but is retail
ing now at the same price It did
then-fruit jars. There was little
or no fruit crop last season and fruit
Jars were dull sale at ST dozen for
quarts This year is the largest
fruit crop on record and that with
the Mckinley cheap sugar has given
an impetus to the canning business.
There will be more fruit canned
this season than in any previous
year, and factories are unable to
supply the demand for glass jars.
Quarts have already advanced s.. 50
on the gross or about 20 cents on the
dozen. Retail dealers will be
obliged to advance slightly beyond
ST dozen and house keepers should
lay in their supply now. Just re
member though, that a large fruit
crop and not the Mckinley bill is
responsible for this.
In groceries no advance in prices
is noted over this time last year. On
the contrary, one grocer said, exclu
sive of sugar, 81 will buy as much
groceries as $1.1o would last, season,
and ST will buy as much sugarras'
ST. would then The farmer with
five in his family the year round is
saved s25 on his sugar bill by the
Mckinley law; he is saved from So
to S. on every 100 pounds OF binding
Irvine aud he doesn't have to pay
cent more for anything else.
This is the condition Of things in
St. Joseph County, where farmers
Isell and buy in South Bend, and
what is true Of South Bend ought to
be true Of every large town and city
in Indiana.-ZHe Tribune, S0Hth
Benz, Ind, June 20. o