Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-12
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Buying Better Goods.

Buying Better Goods.
Merchants all over the country are
reporting through the medium OF
newspaper correspondents that not
only are their customers buying more
goods, but also that they are buying
better goods. A st. Paul (Minn) mer-
chant said, for instance: women
who last year were buying 25-cent
stuffs for shirt waists and dresses, are
now getting dollar materials" 1t is
the buying of higher-priced goods
which in part swells the volume of
trade for 1899 beyond that Of 1898. It
is the better quality Of goods which is
represented by these higher prices
which in large measure marks the adj
vantage which the people of the coun-
try will have in 1899 beyond that
which they had in 1893.
Last year the prosperity which came
In with Protection was Of sufficiently
great proportion to give all the people
of the country who were willing to
work all the necessities Of life, and in
| many cases to settle up the debts con-
tracted in Tariff reform times and to
make them square with the world.
The additional year Of prosperity, Of
increasing prosperity, since then, has
meant such an increase Of money that
the luxuries of life, in quality as well
as in quantity and variety, have been
brought within reach.
The "Robber Barons.O
In the days of Grover Cleveland the
puddler in an iron mill found his wages
shrinking until they got down to $2.4O
per ton, says the Outburst When
William Mckinley came into power
and the Republican prosperity dawned
over the land, like a welcome sunrise
after long DIRK night Of anxiety and
commercial distress, the aforesaid pud-
dler found his stipend rapidly increas-
ed until 1t reached 1878; and two
weeks ago the ''robber barons''-as
Bryan calls the owners Of the iron
mills-gave him further raise to 81.
Another setsof ''robber barons' who
manage the great Pennsylvania Rail-
road has recently established perma-
nent pension system for faithful en-
ployes who have grown too old for the
active service Of the road, and so the
terrible work of the 'trobber barons''
goes on, while the labor agttator, who
sucks his fat living from the sweat
earned wages Of the honest workman,
rends the air with cries Of tyranny
because dynamite and lawless destruc-
ton are not encouraged by the govern
ment under which we live.-Colfax
(Wash.) Gazette.
Will Not See.
Senator Vest of Missouri will not see
Or believe that any prosperity has come
to the farmer in the past two wears
He said in an interview at Toronto
Canada, on Monday: Republicans
claim prosperity as due to the tariff
policy, but farmers have received no
particular benefit from the prosperity,
and are as dissatisfied as ever" Facts
from all sections Of the country. esne-
c1ally the great farming West. dis
prove the sentence above uttered nv
MT Vest. Millions of mortgages IN
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri. Iowa and
the Dakotas were in 1898 paid off hr
Tue increased sale Of their products
ana millions more will be paid and
Cancelled before Christmas chimes arc
rung from the gold the 1899 crops will
bring them.-Fremont (Ohio) journal
Inc Value of Confidence.
IL IS possible, of course. that bus;-
ness may be somewhat unfayorablv
anected by the political battle of newt
year THIS being a not uncommon ex-
perlence in the year of presidential
contest. but the danger Of this will 10
reduced to minimum if events shan
oe such as to create general confidence
IN republican success. Let tho fnan
ciai ana commercial interests of the |
country feel well assured Of another
hepuDncan triumph and the national
campaign will have little effect mon
business. Omaha Bee.
trusts in England.
English manufacturers annoron.,
90 not need Protection to father thaiy
trusts. Although England is 4 Frea
trade country, the large number -
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