The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-08-01
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the pTeSelt MthiIlleS JuIlt, diiu ld,hS
but 1850 of being double what was
received in June of last year.
This is all very we'll for what the
farmer pl oduces and sells, but how is
it with what he has to buy: Accord
ing 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 others, and should not
be able to get any article OF consump-
ton ut 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 consum-
er. That is their theory, but here is
the Mckinley condition of things.
No articles of reajy-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 ward of unbleached muslin sell
ing at five cents yard. Last June
the price was cents. An indigo blue
calico that was cents last June is )
cents now \ bed-tlcking that sold
for Is cents last June sells for - cents
now 4 Gotten flannel that was worth
10 cents last June is now 9 cents \
fine or all wool Louisville flannel that
cost the merchant 2ll cents las June he
bought this June for 20 cents. In both
instances the retail price IS - cents.
A wool feec1d that cost him y cents
last year is two cents cheaper this
wear. On dress goods that retalled
last year ut from 50 to 30 cents a yard
he has had to pay from to cents but,
the retail price is the same. y label
linen he got for 10 cents last season
cost him 42i cents this year. He sold
it last year at 30 cents and sells it the
same to-day Pearl buttons cost him
Il trifie more, bat the retail price is the
same Stock \ grain bags are % cents
this harvest last harvest they were p
cents.
In shoes there are no higher prices,
and many lines are cheaper. One mer
chant said he paid So cents a pair less
this year for mems kangaroo ShoSeS
than he did last year. Last year the
retail price was 500 to 81, and this
Year ii is s. to $3.50. \ Reynolds sho"
tor ladies' that sold at $3.50 to 81 last
year is nos sold at g.
In glassware, crockery and tinware
there is no advance in prices, and some
articles are cheaper. Tin cups last
season were 80 cents Il dozen, wash
basins cents ea II, 6-quart milk pans
Scents each, dish pans 20 cents each,
and are the same thing this year. The
lo-gallon tin pals which sold at u
cents each last Year can be bought at
l. cents this year, 4 drop OF cents.
1t will he seen that the tin plate liar"
of last October deserved his title. One
article of glassware was found higher
ut wholesale than last season, but is
retailing now at the same price it did
then-fruit jars. There was little or
10 fruit crop last season and fruit jars
were dull sale ut 81 Il dozen for quarts.
this year there is the largest fruit crop
IN record and that with the Mckinley
cheap Sugar has gwen an impetus to
To the canning business. There viii
he more fruit canned this season than
III any previous year, and factories are
unable IL supply the demand for glass
Jars Quarts have already advanced
about ST on the gross or about -
cents on the dozen Retail dealers viii
he obliged To advance slightly beyond
81 4 dozen and house keepers should
1lv in then supply now. Just rememb-
er though that large fruit crop and
not the Mckinley bill is responsible
for this
In groceries 40 advance in prices is
noted over this time last year On
the contrary, one grocer said, exclusive
- suga:, 81 will buy rs much groceries
rs 81 10 would last SEASON. and 81 VIII
my as much sugar IS 81 50 would then
The farmer with FIVE in his family the
Year round is saved So on his sugar
hill by the Mckinley law; he is saved
from 81 to $ on every hundred pounds
Of binding talne and he dosen't have
70 pay 4 Gent more for anything.
This is tire condition Of things in St
Joseph Cuunty. where farmers buy and
sell in South Bend and what is true of
South Bend ought to be true Of every
large town and city i'll Indiana, The
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