The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-05

II Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .S12l.O SiOi.
&The difference in prices for the same
amount OF produce sold in June, 1890,
and June, 1891, is just Sls3 in favor OF
the present Mckinley June, and lacks
but $50. so of being double what was re-
ceived in June of last year.
This is all very well for what the
farmer produces and sells, but how is 1t
with what he has to buy? According TO
the Democratic assertions and prophe.
cies made last October, when the Nc
Kinlcy bill became Il law, the farmers
should be paying double prices for many
things they consume, higher prices for
many others, and should not be able 10
get any article of consumption at
the same prices prevailing Just before
the bi became law. They made these
assertions and prophecies on their
theory that the "tariif is a tax" and
raises pr CcS To the consumer. That is
their theory, but here is the Mckinley
condition of things
No articles of ready male clothing
are sold in South Bend now ut any
higher prices than they were last June,
and many can be bought cheaper.
In dry goods all lines are almost the
same prices rs last year, and many
things are lower IN one store we lind a
yard of unblcachcd muslin selling Ut
cents y ard. Last June the pri e was
cents. An indigo blue LEO that was
cents last June is , cents now A bed
ticking that sold for II cents yard last
June is - cents now. A cotton Hannel
that was 10 cents last June is now .
cents. \ fine or all wool Louisville han-
mel that cost the merchant Pin cents
last June he bought this June for 20
cents. In both instances the retail price
is % cents \ wool neece that cost him
- cents last year is > cents cheaper this
year. On dress goods that rctailed last
year 1T 80 10 50 cents a yard he has TO
pay from ! To cents more, but the re-
tail Price is the same A table linen h
got for 40 cents last season cost him - -
cents this year He sold il last year at
so cents and sells IL the same to-day.
Pearl buttons cost him trifc more, but
the retail price is the same. Stock A
grain bags are 20 cents this harvest, last
harvest they were p cents.
In shoes there are no higher prices
and many lines are cheaper One NOR
chant said he paid 80 cents q pair less
this year for mems kangaroo shoes than
he did last year. Last year the retail
price was S.. TO 81 and this year it is
So to SO. so a Reynolds shoe Tor ladies
sold at So.
In glassware, crockery and tinware
there is no advance In prices, and some
articles ore cheaper. lin cups last sea-
son were 80 cents doZon. wash basins
8 cents each, siX-Quart milk pans cents
each, dish pans - cents each, and are
the same this year The ten-ga Ion tin
pals which sold at Is cents each last
year can be bought at l. cents this year,
drop Of cents So it will be seen that
"the tin-plate liar" of last October de-
served his title One article of ass
ware was found higher at whole ale
than last season, but is retailing no 9, at
tho same price it did thcn-fruit jars.
There was little or no fruit crop last
season, and fruit Jars were dull sale at
81 dozen for quarts This year there
is the largest fruit crop on record, and
that with the Mckinley cheap sugar has
given an impetus TO the canning bust
ness. There will be more fruit canned
this season than in any previous year,
and factories are unable TO supply the
demand for gasS Jars. Quarts have al
ready advanced -. 80 on the gross, or
about 20 cents on the dozen. Retail
dealers will bc obliged to n lvancc slight
" beyond 81 II dozen, and hOusekeepers
should lay in their supply now Just
remember. though, that large fruit
crop and not the Mck.al,y bill Is re.
sponsible for this.
In groceries no advance Ira Ices Is
noted over this me last year. On the
contrary, one grocer said, exclusive of
sugar, 81 will buy as much groceries as
$40 would last season, and 81 will buy
US m Oh sugar as 81. 80 would then
Tho farmer with i've in his family the
year round T. saved S25 on his sugar
bill by the Mckinley law; he is saved
from a 10 - on every 100 pounds of
binding twnc. and he doesn't have TO
,xpay cent NOR for any thing else
This is the condition Of things In St.
Joseph County. where farmers sell and
buy i'm South Bend, and what is true Of
South Bend ought to be true OF every
large town and city in Indiana -Irib-
qy,e, South Bend, Ind.