The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-03
No Matter Who You Are,
This Taps Your Pocket
Day After Day
FACTS FOR M'KINLEY CRANKS.
Jersey City Merchants Expose a
Few Of the Latest Protec-
tion Fakes.

was cneapening all sorts of commodities
to the consumers in way that would
knock spots out Of all the Democratic
theories on the subject
Every housekeeper knows whether
house supplies. especially food, has been
any cheaper Of late. THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS has within few days printed
all the facts regarding the disastrous
DEAFNESS of provisions which prevail.
Today 1t is proposed to take glance at
dry goods of every sort. and see whether
they are growing cheaper under the in
fiuence of high duties. Sufficient time
has elapsed TO show pretty well what the
effect of McKinleyism is to be.
dropped into various jersey City
stores, the last day or two, to get points
on prices. While 1t was not hard TO tell
Republican from Democrat by the
color which the several proprietors tried
to give the facts. still one great truth
could not be concealed:--The tendency of
prices everywhere was upward, and most
noticeably on the wares that poor people
buy. Even the most radical Republican
had to admit this.
STAPLE GOODS ADVANCED
At the store OF Mr.. Charles S. Furst /
was told that on all staple goods, serges
prices have advanced from "a to cents
per yard; on French cashmeres aud Hen
riettas the prices have advanced from ten
to fifteen per cent.
Luckily we purchased heavily before
the bill wentfn effect,n said the man in
charge of the department, "bur as soon
as the present stock is exhausted retail
prices will go up to correspond with the
wholesale prices. Linens have advanced
1215 per cent, and hosiery, both imported
and domestic. have gone up. AS TO pearl
buttons the factory girl aud the saleswo-
man will simply have to content them
selves with bone ones.
THE operations Of the billn continued
the gentleman, have not yet brought
down the price of domestic calicoes, ginQ-
hams and seersuckers, Notwithstanding
the promise to the poor that they should
be bountifuliy supplied with these ordi-
nary dress materials at cheaper cost. and
do not think the price is apt TO decrease
but rather to increase as soon as the pres
emf foreign stock in this country Is dis
posed Of {"
CLOTHING DEARER, TOO.
Superintendent Bernstein of the Bos-
ton Clothing House is another who be-
lieves that the poor suffers most from the
operations of the bill. Sin some grades
OF goods said he, s'the manufacturers
cannot today produce the material and
make 1t into goods for the retailer of
clothing at prices .the retailer sold at
year ago. Especially is this the ease In i
the matter Of corduroys much worn by
children Of mechanics and people in mod
erate circumstances. We sold 1900
children's corduroy suits Just before the
Mckinley bill went into effect. Suisse
Quently we We're offered by those we
bou ght them Of an advance of fifteen per
cent. for their return"
HATS AND SHOES.
"Oh. there's no difference in the price of
Boston's hat department, and the beauty
of it is our domestic matters are produc-
ing more hats than they ever did before
The raw materials for hat trimming are
imported to this country free of duty.
You are a Republican, suggested.
Yes, sir''
''How about shoesf"
"'Way down since the Mckinley bill |
went into effect. Here's the gentleman |
in charge coming this way. ASK him.
Eyes, sill. p replied the shoe man, '.the
Mckinley bill has allowed US to drop |
twenty-five per cent. in the price of shoes |
all the way through. and"
"Yo1 see, now, he's a genuine Demo-
crat. too,n said the hat man.
Yes, sIree,' reiterated the shoe man, |
shoes are twenty-five per cent. lower |
since thse, mckinley bill went into
'And the shoe industry is booming in |
this country" again interrupted the |
hatman.
eyes. too much So" said the shoeman,
winking slyly. with the South Ameri- |
eau trade shut off and the American fac |
tories In full blast, the markets will be- |
come glutted, and thousands of shoe
makers will soon walk around with no /
money In their pockets for their families |
to purchase shoes or anything else.
But said 1, IF shoes can be manu-
20 ,r.A a
less than they were before the Mckinley |
bill went into effect, why can't American |
shoe dealers compete with England and |
Germany and ouher countries for the |
South American shoe trade ?''
why, my dear boy, there's been no
reduction from the figures at which we |
competed with England before the Nc
Kinley bill went into effect. At least the I
reduction is merely from the raise made |
by the manufacturers just few weeks
before this bill commenced to operate. A |
trick of the trade, you know. Leather
mers came along and said to retailers,
You'd better buy heavily now; these /
goods will 40 up after the passage OF the /
Mckinley bill Nearly all the retailers
bought heavily. The market became |
overst0cked, manufacturers figures came |
downx Retailers are anxious TO get rid of |
their stock. Results:--A howl about an |
enormous reduction (mainly from the fig
ures put upon goods in anticipation of
the passage of the Mckinley bill; no ont
put in foreign markets, Rlutted home
markets, factories shut down and the ar
ray of men out of employment. And I
there you have the whole tnlng in nut
shell"
SHOE DEALER SANDS VIEWS.
Shoe Dealer Sands expressed precisely /
the same opinion, only lie ciaimei that he
was not effected by the drummers' cry.
II can't explain exactly how 1t ISL he +
said, "but it Is curious fact that the two
last years Of Cleveiand's administration
my books, containing every separate ar
ticie sold in nineteen years, record re-
ceipts of So 900 year above any year
u ave been in business
DOES 1T BENEFIT WORKERS?
II don't think the bill has been in effect
long enough TO allow people in our bust
ness to judge Of its merits or dement's, =
said Clothier George w. Clerihew. THE
in the clothing market have
been due to causes other than tariff be-
Iieve. however, the advocates of the bill 4
claim that its operation will give more |
to American toilors. don't
think ever heard OF SO many strikes, +
and lock-outs as have been re-
ported within the past few months I
Joy 10 RICH WoMES
Mr. Perimutter, one Of the largest
dealers in millinery, feathers. dowers and
was positive In his assertion
that tho bill operated il favor OF rich