Arizona republican., 1891-07-18
WE may look for rain soon.
OUR WASHINGTON WOMEN.

How Their Wearing Apparel Is Affected
 by the Mckinley Bill.
 The Jenness- Miller gospel has so per meated fashionable society that the lead ing dressmaker in Washington refuses to it customer unless she present herself in glove fitting garments of either cotton, lisle, wool or silk. It may be of interest to know that these goods of American manufacture nave surpassed those of foreign make, and thus far the retail dealers have not greedily and maliciously taken advantage of women's ignorance of the Mckinley bill to raise the prices on these goods. was informed by Miss OLeary, an expert buyer in this line for the largest dry goods house in Washing ton, that the effect of the Mckinley bill meant reduction of prices after little time. She said that some of her fashion able customers still preferred imported underwear, fancying that it was trife better in shape and finish of seams, but that in all middle class manufacture of these cottons and wools, such as is worn by the great mass of our people, Amer ican goods have surpassed those of foreign make, and that better quality for less money is made in tGs country, and notably in Michigan, than anywhere else in the world. Itis astonishing how little the average woman knows either of the theory of Protection in general or of the Mckinley bill in particular. The consequence of this is that women have been the principal sufferers from the shrewd dealers who raised their prices on the strength of the new tariff law. Had the women at large taken any sort of interest in the late campaign of edu- cation they might have suspected that @ tradesman was lying when he asked an advanced price on articles which must have been cheapened in manufacture under the new law. Apropos of this, it is rather good story that one prominent Ohio ex-congressman is telling at the ex. pense of another Democratic statesman and wife.
 The wife of Representative Outhwaite, of the Thirteenth Ohio district, has for many years purchased her fine boots of a certain Columbia o. dealer. The boots were made to order, and were uniformly marked nine dollars. A week or two after the Mckinley bill became a law the lady, as was customary, had ordered her winter boots. Calling for them on the date agreed upon she found the order filled by the prompt and efficient boot maker, but to her astonishment an eleven dollar tag had supplanted the usual nine dollar bill.
 Inquiring as to the meaning. Mrs, Outhwaite was calmly informed that the passage of this nefarious tariff law had compelled them to raise the price of all goods.
 Surprised and suspicious, but wholly unable to meet the case, the lady put down the parcel and refused to take the boots until she had consulted with her husband.
 When his wife had hurriedly poured forth her grievance the Democratic statesman, forgetting everything but his familiarity with the subject and the atrocious swindle, sprang to his feet and exclaimed, so it is averred by the Demo. cratic ex-Inember, "Why, the - - liar; you just go back and tell him that the Mckinley bill kept hides on the free list, and that if he is going to make any change he wants to take off two dollars and sell his measly old truck for seven dollars. Florence Huntley in Ameri. can Economist.