Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13

The difference in prices for the same
amount of produce sold in June, 1890,
and June, 1891, Is just $3.50 in favor OF
the present Mckinley June, and lacks
but $36. 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 it
with what he has to buy? According to
the Democratic assertions and prophe-
cies made last October, when the Nc
Kinley bill became a 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 a law. They made these
assertions and prophecies on their
theory that the "tarlff is a tax" 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 a
yard of unbleached muslin selling at S
cents yard. Last June the price was 6
cents. An indigo blue calico that was 6
cents last June Is 5 cents now. A bed
ticking that sold for II cents yard last
June is Is cents now. A cotton flannel
that was 10 cents last June is now 9
cents. A fine or all wool Louisville fan
mel that cost the merchant 211S cents
last June he bought this June for 20
Nnn%c TN both inc 10 ha -
is Is cents. A wool fleece that cost him
~ cents last year is cents cheaper this
year. On dress goods that retailed last
year at IS to so cents yard he has to
pay from to cents more, but the re-
tail price is the same. A table linen he
got for 40 cents last season cost him AZ Il
cents this year. He sold it last year at
80 cents and sells it the same to-day.
Pearl buttons cost him a trifie more, but
the retail price is the same Stock A
grain bags are 30 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 IS conts q pair less
this year for mems kangaroo shoes than
he did last year. Last year the retail
price was So. 0 to 81, and this year it is
So to So. so. A Reynolds shoe for ladies
that sold at So. so to SIS last year is now
sold at So.
In glassware, crockery and tinware
there is no advance in prices, and some
articles are cheaper. lin cups last sea-
son were 80 cents dozen, wash basins
cents each, siX-quart milk pans cents
each, dish pans 20 cents each, and are
the same this year. The ten gallon tin
pals which sold at Is cents each last
year can be bought at IL cents this year,
drop of cents. So it will be seen that
Sthe 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
she same price it did then-fruit jars.
There was little or no fruit crop last
| season, and fruit jars were dull sale at
81 a 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 glass jars. Quarts have al
ready advanced So. so on the gross, or
about 20 cents on the dozen. Retail
dealers will be obliged to advance slight
Iy beyond 81 dozen, and hOusekeepers
should lay in their supply now. Just
remember, though, that large fruit
crop and not the Mckinley bill is re-
sponsible 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
81. 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 $25 on his sugar
bill by the Mckinley law; he is saved
from 81 to SIS on every 100 pounds OF
binding Irvine, and he doesn't have to
pay cent 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 city in Indiana.-Tfib.
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