The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-08-26


and June, 1891, is just SlSS in favor of
the present Mckinley June, and lacks
but $3.50 Of being double what was re-
ceived in June of last year.
This is all very we'll for what the far
mer produces and sells, but how is it
with what he has to buy? According
to the democratic assertions and
prophecies made last October, when the
Mckinley bill became law, the farmers
should be paying double prices for many
things they consume, higher prices for
many others. and should not be able to
get any article of consumption at the
same prices prevailing just before the
bill became law. They made these
assertions and prophecies on their
theory that the tariff is taxi and
raises prices to the consumer. That is
their theory, but here is the Mckinley
condition of things:
No articles of ready-made clothing
are sold in South Bend now at any
higher prices than they were last June,
and many can be bought cheaper.
In dry goods, all lines are almost the
same prices as last year and many
things are lower. In one store we find
yard of unbleached muslin selling at
5 cents.a yard. Last June the price
was cents. An indigo blue calico that
was cents last June is cents now. A
bed. ticking that sold for Is cents yard
last June is Is cents now. A cotton
flannel that was 10 cents last June is
now cents. A fine or all wool Louis
vile flannel that cost the merchant 2111
cents last June he bought this June for
20 cents. In both instances the retail
price is % cents. A wool feeced that
cost him 81 cents last year is 2 cents
cheaper this year. On dress goods that
retailed last year at So to so cents a
yard he has had to pay from to cents
more, but the retail price is the same.
A table linen he got for 40 cents last
season costs him AZ e cents this year. He
sold it last year at 80 cents and sells it
the same to-day. Pearl buttons cost him
trife more, but the retail price is the
same. Stock A grain bags are go cents
this harvest; last harvest they were 81
cents.
In shoes there are no higher prices,
and many lines are cheaper. One mer.
chant said he paid So cents pair less
this year for mems kangaroo shoes than
he did last year. Last year the retail
price was $3.50 to "a, and this year it is
So to $3.50. A Reynolds shoe for ladies
that sold at 49, so to 81 last year is now
sold at So. l. .r'f}, lii t't"
In glassware, crockery and tinware
there is no advance in prices, and some
articles are cheaper Tin cups last sea-
son were so cents dozen, wash basins
scents each, 6-quart milk pans cents
each, dish pans 20 cents each, and are
the same this year. The 1O-gallon tin
pals which sold at Is cents last year
can be bought, at IL cents this year, a
drop of cents. SO it will be seen that
1.-THE tin plate liar" of last October de-
served his title. One article of glass
ware was found higher at wholesale
than last season, but is retailing 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
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
business. There will be more fruit
canned this season than in any previ-
GUS year, and factories are unable to
supply the demand for glass jars.
Quarts have already advanced $3.50 on
the gross or about 20 cents on the dozen.
Retail dealers will be obliged to ad-
vance Slightly beyond 81 dozen and
house-keepers should lay in their sup
ply now. just remember though, that
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, exclusive Of
sugar, 81 will buy as much groceries as
Sl.10 would last season, and 81 will buy
as much sugar as 1.50 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 81
to s. on every 100 pounds of binding
Irvine and he doesn't have to pay a cen,
more for anything else.
This is the condition of things in St
Joseph county, where farmers sell and
buy in South Bend, and what is true OF
South Bend ought to be true of every
large town and citv in Indiana
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