The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-14

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World. Nov. IA, 1891
This is sample Of
promises Of 1892. Every
cry politician that favdl5d
was. at that time, spreading
| the widest statements as to Il
derful cheapness of goods that
| follow their success in the national
tions. We have shown. from facts COZ
piled by Dun's review. that prices in
cotton goods, woolens. silk, iron manu-
features, boots and shoes we're all high
| or at the end of 1896 than at the open
ing of that year. But Bradstreet's has
examinedn this subject Of cheaper
prices< on more extensively, and, in
its issue of Jan. Ill, 1896, gave such in
teresting facts that we quoted them more
fully because they give the lie direct to
every free traders promise of Cheap
ness
Among food products which are
higher than on April l. 1895, are wheat,
eggs, butter, milk. molasses, mackerel,
sugar, peas, apples, peanuts and raisins;
as compared with six months ago the
list is found to be smaller, consisting of
eggs, butter, cheese, mackerel, milk,
molasses. sugar, peas, raisins and cur
| NH xryifh
tions for Oct. 1, 1896, higher prices for
food products include those for wheat,
flour. beeves. sheep, mutton, eggs, but
ter, cheese, molasses, mackerel. sugar,
rice, peas, apples. cranberries, peanuts,
raisins and currants, indicating o much
more extensive advance in quotations
for staple food commodities during the
past three months than had been pre-
sumed from some market reports.
This list comprises pretty nearly ev-
cry commodity that the average family
needs for its daily existence A much
more extensive advance in quotations
for staple food commodities" is not
quite the same as the promise of "cheap-
1 er prices. But let us look at the cloth
ing list:
Quotations for textiles, raw and
manufactured. which are higher than
they were on April last, include cot
ton, wool, hemp. silk, fax, print cloths,
eastern sheetings, ginghams and south
ern sheetings. and the list is practical
ly the same for those higher today than
on July last, the exception being
southern sheetings. |"
Besides the advance in the prices Of
articles Of food there has also been q
much more extensive advance in quo
tations" of wearing apparel and house
hold articles. Now for the products Of
the mines:
\ Quotations today as contrasted with
i July /. 1895. show advances for iron
ore, No. 2 southern pig iron and lead
and as compared with prices on April
j, 1895, present quotations show adj
vances for iron ore. eastern anthracite,
No. southern pig. bessemer pig. steel
billets. rails and beams, copper, lead
and quicksilver. /"
More money has to be paid, too, for
articles made Of iron, lead, steel and
copper. Fire and light. as well, are
more expensive, as the following shows
Circular prices for bituminous coal,
southern and Connellsville coke are
higher today than on Oct. last and as
compared with July last. when an adj
vance for anthracite coal must be added
The like is true when prices are COM
pared with quotations on April 1, 1895.
Crude and refined petroleum. castor oil
and turpentine are all higher today
than they were on Oct. 1 but as COM
pared with July 1 the list for those
which are higher today includes refined
petroleum, cottonseed oil, castor oil and
turpentine, and as contrasted with prices
on April /, 1896. higher prices today
are those for crude and refined petro-
leum. naphtha, castor oil and rosin.
Even the sick man has to pay more
money for his castor oil. Other drugs
and chemicals are dearer too.
Not much inducement isoffered either
for the WAGE GARNER who pnnte tn hnild
home for his family. With free lum-
Der he was promised cheap" house.
Lower duties ON nails and glass were to
help every man to own his own castle
Those were the promises. 0,ese are the
i facts:
i Among Building materials brick.
nails, glass, pine. spruce and hemlock
are higher than they were three months
ago, and the like is true as compared
with six months ago. with the excep-
ton Of hemlock, and similar state
ment may be made In reference to nine
months ago. with the exception Of the