Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-04-22
in order to insure the permanency Of
the peoples happiness.-Ex.


beginning 10 feel IL NOW.
New-Yorkers who have hitherto
been unable to form intelligent opin-
ions about the Mckinley law may get
some data just at this time from their
wives and daughters which will help
them decide whether or not the new
tariff has been a price raiser. In this
the season for Spring shopping. they
may obtain evidence-indeed, il will
be forced upon their attention-as to
the operation of the Mckinley law
upon the prices of dress goods, evil
denoe which will incontestably prove
to them that they must go consider
ably deeper into their pockets this
year than last. in order to foot the
bills for the Spring Quitting.
Against this evidence, the value Of
which they can figure in dollars and
cents, the iteration of Republican
newspapers that the tariff is not tax
will fall quite fiat. There is not a
store in New York in which dress
goods are not selling at higher prices
than similar goods have heretofore
been sold at not one in which dress
goods are not commanding higher
prices than they would have been
marked at had the old tariff been con-
tinued in force.
Said a woman yesterday who had
just come in from shopping; ave
heard about the Mckinley law where
ever Eye been to-day. / went out to
buy stuff for an ordinary everyday
dress. Last year got suitable goods
for a dollar a yard, and that is what
! have paid for the last three or four
years, sometimes going as high as S1.25.
believe that it is only an incon-
siderable percentage of New York
women who buy more expensive ma
terials for their every day street cos
sumes.
~ thought that'I should find what
! wanted this year at the usual price.
OF course l had read in The Times
that the Mckinley law would make
dress goods dearer, but | didn't be-
lieve it. had made up my mind
that The Times and the other anti
Administration papers were doing
just what the Tribune said that they
were doing, that is, lying about the
new tariff. ] see it differently now.
I have proved to my great disgust
that the predictions made in The
Times of advances in the prices of
dress goods have been fully made
good.
81 could not to-day buy materials
for my dress for less than $1.60 to
s1.75 yard. Materials of similar
value was easily obtainable last year
at from 81 to 1925 a yard. There is
nothing desirable in any of the stores
in regular lines at the old prices. I
had to take my choice between buying
cheaper stuff than I have ever worn
before or paying from so to 60 cents
a yard more than I have ever paid
before.
Gall the women were scoldipg about
high prices. Haven't you any dollar
goods ? was question that was con-
stantly hearing, and the reply was in
variably TO the effect that nothing
desirable in dress goods could be sold
this season at dollar. Nor for
dollar and a quarteri' would come
Immediately thereafter. and to that
question the answer was practically
the same that was made to the previ-
Gus question.
my shopping tour this morning
has convinced me that Mr.. Mckinley
and his friends have taken consider
able purchasing power away from the
few dollars that l have to spend on
dress, and shall never believe Re-
publican when he tells me that the
tariff is not tax. am satisfied that
l shall have to practice greater econ
omy in order to live within my in.
come than ! have ever practiced be-
fore. Perhaps l am receiving some
compensating blessing, but if 1 am, I
do not know it."-New York Times.