The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-20
FOR THE WOMEN ONLY.

Except in some of the mountain
states women have either no suffrage
or one restricted to school matters,
which are being gradually transferred
to their custody, but, voters or not,
they occasionally, on provocation, take
a hand in politics, and when they do
they make their work count. A very
notable instance was the campaign of
1890, with its emphatic rejection Of the
sweet and tender humanitarianism Of
protector Mckinley for his pulling in
fants. While Anticipated doctors were
post-morteming the corpse and gravely
delivering judgments on the cause Of
its speedy taking off, and DR.. Harri-
son was soberly shaking his head and
regretting that the little one could not
have lived long enough to make people
discover it's virtues and learn to love.
cherish and obey it, Tom Reed went
right to the center Of the case and said,
"the women did it"
Mr.. Reed showed unusual perspicac-
ity in his diagnosis, but seems to
have learned nothing by it, for he help
ed jam through restoration, a res
direction rather, of McKinleyism in the
measure christened Dingleyism which
will invite the women of the land to
take hand in the congressional cam
paigns of 1898 and again play havoc
with Republican candidates. In 1890
every woman who went shopping for
groceries, tableware, woolers or cot
tons, was confronted with a rise in
price that offended deeply their in
grained, ineradicable passion for bar
gains. To their sharp query for the
cause the bland dealer informed them
that it was the Mckinley bill. Where
duly advised that McKinleyism and
housekeeping and providing would not
work together unless income get a rise
proportionate to rise in household
outgo. This was an argument that, in
come shrinking where it moved at all.
was very convincing to the minds Of the
vote casters. The result is a matter
of political history whose page no Ioyal
Republican reads to this day without
a shudder.
We say that the lesson Of 1890 is
unheeded and the women of the land
are again to be stirred into activity
whose reactions will reach the booths
next year. Mr.. William Eleroy Cur
tis to whom we have frequently allud-
ed, and who has been, in times past,
as stalwart a McKinley-Dingleyite as
any in the land, gives to the Chicago
Record a bit of concrete information
which we think will be interesting to
the women who honor the G. o b with
perusal Of its contents, especially it's
editorial page. He says:
The average weight of one yard of allwool
dress goods for children and womens USE
forty inches wide, Is four ounces, and that IL
the key or unit in computing the duties upon
such fabrics. The average wholesale price of
this class Of goods in Europe is 1 franc or
20 cents per yard. In New York the whole
sale price, with the regular discount of
per cent for cash or ten days, under the va
rious tariff bills, duty paid. is or was or will
be as follows: Walker tariff, 1888 to 1890
1873 cents; Mckinley tariff, 1890 to 1894, 43.9
cents; present tar1n, August, 1894, to date,
29.5 cents; Dingley tariff, proposed, 45.5 cents;
senate tariff, proposed, 40.2 cents.
In a general way, with less precise
ness, the Clio b e has told about the
same story, and urged upon its readers
the precaution Of buying their supply
of dress goods, where they can afford
it, before the advance, that is certain to
come, sets the merchants again to
marking up prices. Any woman can
take the above figures and add to them
the intermediate profits that increase
the prices Of dress goods before they
are measured off to her, and make
close caluculation as to how much more