Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-11-05
SHE BUYS CURTAINS.
DORo Thy SELECTS WINDOW DRAP-
ERiES FOR HER BACK PARLoR.

Drives a large Sized Spike Through "A
Mckinley High Price--Any other Wa
man May BE as Enterprising.
Dorothy had determined to have only
"real' things in her home, you know;
but when it came to lace curtains for
her prospective back parlor she had to
draw the line. They cost several hun
bred dollars pair, and Dorothy's ship
has not come iu While we Were CON
sidering the matter / saw a private let
ter from Marshall Field. The great Chi
cago dry goods merchant, in when a
clerk said that such curtains as Dorothy
wanted cost "thirty-fve cents more q
yard than they did before the Mckinley
bill.
"Aud don't believe it, said l.
"Neither do /, said Dorothy.
Lets look it up, we both said. Upon
which we made mp our minds that we
wouldn't buy stitch from anybody
who lied to us about Mckinley high
prices
My official tariff book tvou can get one
yourself by writing to Washington for
iDtelIs me chat the dutyon lace curtains
has been raised from 40 to 90 per cent
by the Mckinley law.
"Why was it raised? What was the
result Of it:' Dorothy and / wanted to
know. five liked the answers we woald
buy the curtains. lit was to make "the
rich richer" and the poor poorer, as the
Democrat papers claimed q have been
reading tariff literature lately, we should
certainly not be q party to that sort Of
thing If, as the Republican papers
said, this advance IN duty was really a
benefit to the men ana women who WORK
atcurCaiu making and to the people who
buy them | should do everything ia my
power 10 let the women Of the country
know what unpuncipled, selfish people
Democratic Mckinley tale fabricators
are
We went TO O'Neills ON Sixth avenue
first. They had such curtains as we
wanted, but theprice was eighteen cents
q yard higher than before the Mckinley
bin We didn't deal with them,
Nest wc went to Simpson d. Craw-
fords A policeman said that the price
of curtains had not been raised in that
store anyway by the Mckinley bill.
lie laughed in funny little way when
we asked the question, and seemed to
have something i'm mind which was p
good joke on somebody Then he said,
"No indeed, we can't raise the prices on
Sixth avenue; the people would get after
u If we did
"Then it isn't necessary to charge
morps' persisted Dorothy.
~ wouldn't like to answer that, miss.
The wholesale people can tell you all
about prices" Then he gave us the adj
drea. of Mills 81 Gibbs, of Broadway and
Cnud street.
"Ies, the duty has been raised, and
there was good reason for it, said the
salesman at that store. There are
large number Of factories trying to es-
tablish themselves here, and they could
not compete successfully with imported
curtains made by laborers who work for
oue-third Of what our curtain people are
paid BY raising the tariff the curtain
manufacturer can and does pay his
workmeu cnogTh to live comfortably,
even ,uyuriously, ass American citizens
,ou,nofs with tbe imported curtains.
even though the labor On tbsm costs the
FOREIGN maker but oue-thira as much"
"Why that is MS clear gs daylight
said Dorothy .But when come to
fink Of il we who buy lace curtains
have Il, rly chat extra duty. don't wc.o
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