Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-07-24
Total..................$221.5O $4O4.50


farmer produces and sells, but how
is it with what he has to buy? Ac-
cording to the Democratic assertions
and prophecies made last October,
when the Mckinley bill became a
law, the farmers should be paying
double prices for many things they
consume, higher prices for many 9TH
ers, 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 a tax" and
raises prices to the consumer. That
is their theory, but here is the Nc
Kinley condition OF things:
No articles of ready-made clothing
are sold in South Bend now at any
higher price than they were last June,
and many can be bought cheaper.
In dry goods, all lines are almost
the same price as last year and many
things are lower. In one store we
find q yard of unbleached muslin
selling at cents a yard. Last June
the price was cents. An indigo
blue calico that was 6 cents last June
is cents now. A bed-ticking that
sold for lS cents a yard last June is
Is cents now. A cotton flannel that
wus 10 cents last Juneis now 9 cents.
A fine or all wool Louisville flannel
that cost the merchant 2lh cents last
June is bought these June for 20
cents. In both instances the retail
price is 25 cents. A wool fleeced that
cost him q cents last year is cents
cheaper this year. On dress goods
that retailed last year at IS to 50
cents yard he has to pay from l to
2 cents more but, the retail price is
the same. A table linen he got for
40 cents last season cost him 42H
cents this year. He sold it last year
at so cents and sells it the same to-
day. Pearl buttons cost him a trifle
more, but the retail price is the same.
Stock A grain bags are 20 cents this
harvest; last harvest they were q
cents.
In shoes there are no higher prices,
and many lines are cheaper. One
merchant said he paid IS cents g. pair
less this year for mems kangaroo
shoes than he did last year. Last
year the retail price was $3.50 to s.
and this year it is 50 to $3.50. A
Reynolds shoe for ladies that sold al
$3.50 to 81 last year is now sold al
So.
In glassware, crockery and tinware
there fs no advance in prices, and
some articles are cheaper. Tin cupi
last season were 80 cents a dozen
wash basins 8 cents each, 6-quart
milk pans 8 cents each, dish pans q
cents each, and are the same thit
year. The 10-quart tin pals which
sold at Is cents each last year can be
bought at IL cents this year. a droI
i Of 3 cents. So it will be seen thai
1.-THE tin-plate liar" of last October de
served his title. One article of glass
ware was found higher at wholesal,
than last season, but is retailing
now at the same price it did then
fruit jars. There was little or NJ
fruit crop last season and fruit jars
were dull sale at 81 a dozen fo1
quarts. This year there is thu
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 prev
ious 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 q
dozen. Retail dealers will be OBJ
lidged to advance slightly beyond 81
a dozen and house-keepers should
lay in their supply now. just re-
member though, that a 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, ex-
elusive OF sugar, 81 will buy Us much
groceries as $1.1O would last season,
and 81 will buy as much sugar as
$3.50 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 S on every 100 pounds oi
binding twine and he doesn't have
to pay a 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. =,
AsHEvILLE, N. c., July 3.-A large.
ly attended state convention O!
friends Of protection opened here to.
day for the perpose Of organizing q
protective tariff league in connection
with the central organisat tionin New
|Y0rk.