San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-26
FEW GOLD FACTS.


torials until many even among re-
publicans have grown FESTIVE under
the charges and ready to confess their
correctness. 1t is so much easier to
assert than to disprove that the DEM
ecratic assertions have been permitted
to go unchallenged, and the impress
sion has thereby become strengthened
that the effect of the Mckinley bill
has been to increase the prices OF the
articles enumerated under the sched-
ule, while in fact it has had no such
effect at all. Comparisons are pro-
verbally odious, and yet by COMPARE
son alone can the truth be demon
strated.
The New York Press has given for
nearly year specific attention TO
this matter of prices as ranging in the
New York market and from there the
following facts appear: Indigo blue
prints which before the Mckinley
tariff took effect, were selling at 6 IL
cents now sell for IA; brown cotton
fl ipnels sold at cents wholesale I'M
der the old schedule, they sell for 1.2
under the new; duty was increased
on silvered plate glass and yet in May
1890 it sold for 44.2 cents a square
foot, while in May 1891 it sold for Ais.
Mckinley bill advanced duty on fax
and hemp and yet the price lists show
q reduction on price in s. out $50
sizes and grades of twines, yarns,
shoe threads etc while the other IS
showed no advance. Red flannel
bought by the for the In
dian bureau in 1884 cost 1872 cts under
protection policies it was reduced
to 1852 in 1890, and under the Nc
Kinley bill better grade is bought
by government today for $3.50. En-
velopes that pay duty of rs cents
per M. have dropped from 6S cents
psr thous an to AZ cents. Sheetings
which sold for SIS cents yard be-
fore the new tariff took effect now sell
for 1915. Imported hay pays 81 per
ton under the new tariff instead of 50
as under the old, but while the inn
portations have fallen over 2l0O tons,
the price paid for imported hay has de-
clined from $S.25 to $685.. The Amer.
lean Wool, Cotton and Financial Re.
porter says: "there are lines of
domestic transferred seamless goods
ranging, for ladies, from S1.75 to 81,
that will bear comparison with any
thing imported to sell at 81 80 to 50.
The Mckinley bill increased the
duty on linen thread from 40 to As
per cent, and yet domestic button
linen threads in a short time after
the passage of the bill were reduced
from 55 to so cents, and other threads
in proportion. Albumenized paper
pays increased duty from Is TO IS per
cent under new tariff and prices have
dropped from $3S per ream to 1874 per
ream. Higher duties under the new
tariff cut imports Of wooden clothes
from 1872 5S pounds in May 1890 to
6S7, 720 pounds in May 1891 but prices
have not advanced the quotations
measured by imports being $3.50 cents
pound last year, and $50 cents this
year.
Prices of farmers goods show the
same good results. Plow steel costs
> cents less per pound now than in
1880. Barbed wire costing 10 cents in
1880 costs cents now. A wbridge
seeder costing $35 in 1880 now costs
$l3. The wheelbarrow that ten
years ago cost 2.25, now costs $l.65.
The farm wagon in ten years has
dropped from $50 to $50. Self binders
costing S3l5 in 1880 cost Sl3O in
1891. The average price of
barley in eight farming states
last February was $50 cents per bush
ell; in eight manufacturing states,
same date, go cents. Corn March 2
last, in eight farming states, "a cents;
In eight manufacturing states 81
cents. That the raising of duties on
imports has not cut off exports of
breadstuffs is seen from the fact that
the average wheat export per aDnum
from 1885 tie 1889 was of the value of
S22, 1897 1881, while the exports or 1890
were so, 614,S52
These are but very meagre
sample of the facts set forth for the
enlightenment of the farmers of Ohio