The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-07
AGAIN THE ADvERT,sER

An announcement is made in the adj
vertisement of a Chicago crockery
store with which the good people of
these United States will be more fami1-
lar before July than they have been
since the fall of 1890. After setting
forth the articles for sale, the lamps,
tableware and other articles of house,
hold utility, the advertisement proceeds
to say. in large type, that the new
tariff will make this line Of goods cost
much more. and now is the time to
buy" Such statements were common in
the advertisements in 1890, end buyers
found, soon after October came with
the new tariff in effect, that the sellers
had not been giving them idle talk AS
it is intended to fifty celebrate the next
anniversary of the declaration that all
men are born free by the complexion of
an act that excludes them from the
. freedom to buy where they will buyers
may look for a sharp rise in prices of
most of the articles of household use
after that suspicious date.
Pottery and glassware, as we noted
at the time Mr.. Dingley's committee
was receiving from the potters their
mandates, will be relieved from the
comparative cheapness which has de-
| based them for two years, and take
on prices that will be commensurate
with American dignity Should the
economical housewife, obliged to make
good the ravages of the slippery-fin-
gered maiden who is so valuable. if
unpaid, an assistant of the makers of
tableware, feel rebellious at an adj
vance whose use she cannot see or
benefit feel we trust she will reflect
that her sisters on the farms will find
the depression that had rested on their
homes lifted by the revival of manu-
facture Of chinaware and other things.
of which we have assurance from the
lips of no less an oracle than orr
brand-new president.
There are indications that dealers in
all kinds of clothing and of the ma
terials from which it is made will soon
be 1nt1mating in their advertisements in
the pubic prints that the accepted
time to buy clothing and cloths is now
oefore the arbitrated differences be-
tween the manufacturers Of wooIens
and the growers of wool shall have re-
suited in a stiff duty on wool and wool
ems and the inevitable aftermath Of ris
ing prices occurs. We have scanned
the Washington news for some indica-
ton of the terms of settlement between
these two contending factions. who
nave, 1t is said, given the Dingley com
mlttee more trouble than have the
benefctaries of all the remaining sched-
ules. 1t has been intimated that. fail
ing an agreement the committee will
settle the difficulty by re-enacting the
rates OF the act of 1890. If this is done.
no prudent buyer, with a memory that
furnishes the data for a comparison
between the prices that ruled for wool
ems in 1891 and those for the same arti-
cies during the past two years, wi
hesitate to lay in supply before the
advance, as liberal as income will per
nit. Boston wool market reports indf-
cate that the manufacturers are get
ting ready to reap whatever gain is to
be made by anticipating the rev rates
with as large purchases Of foreign
woods as they can make 1t need not
be said that the consumers will get no
share of those profits