Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-10-12
TRUSTS STRIKE THE PURSE.
A Few Figures For The Frugal House.
keeper to Study.

us-keepers should make study
of the following table, which has been
compiled from data and given out with
a view of demonstrating the ''benefi-
cent" results of the domination of
trade by trusts:
American Steel and Wire. $50 600 600
capitaI-Barbed wire increased from
81 .85 to 81 per hundred weight.
Stove, $75, COO. 600 capltaI-Cast iron
stoves Increased 20 per cent.
Galvanized Iron, 100000 capital
Water pals increased - per cent.
Iron Pipe, $74 OoO, 900 capital--2 inch
pipe increased so per cent.
Brick, $1O.OO0,O 900 capital-Plain
brick increased from $475 to SO per
Thousand.
Glass. ST.. 0O0. 600 capital-Window
glass increased 100 per cent.
Tinplate, $4,000 600 capital Tin
ware Increased so per cent.
Copper, $4OO. 900, 900 capital
utensils increased 30 per cent.
Rope and Condage, $12. 900, 900 CAPT
tal-Rope and cord increased from 8
cents per pound to II cents.
Lumber, $500 600 capital-Pine
lumber increased from $l2 per thousand
feet to $lS
Broom. $4,000 600 capital-Brooms
increased from 81. rs to 81 IS.
Sardine. 81, OOO.O 900 capital-Sardines
increased from g. so to 81.
Canning. $40, 600, 900 capital-Canned
vegetables increased 20 per cent.
Tack, $4,000, 900 capital-Tacks in
creased from 81. IS per gross to $3.50.
Match, SIS. 0OO. 900 capital-Matches
increased from 81 SO per gross to $3.50
Salt, $l2, 600. 900 capital-Salt increas
ed from 70 cents per barrel to $1.1O.
Soap, 800, OOO, 700 capital-Laundry
soap increased from 1926 per box te
$3.50.
| Starch, Sc, 0OO, 900 capital-Starchi in
creased from 2 cents per pound to
cents.
Tobacco, $75, 900, 600 capital-TObac
go increased from 32 cents per pound
to AZ cents.
Sugar, $75, OOO. 900 capital-Sugar in
creased 8 cents per pound.
II Envelope. $4,000, 900 capital-In
creased 40 per cent.
Enameled Ware, $25. 900 capita
Increased SO per cent.
Chair, $40 0OO, 900 apital-Increase
80 per cent.
Furniture. 100000 capital
School furniture increased 80 per cent
Flour, SAC, OOO. 900 crpital-Increase
20 per cent.
Beef, 800, 0OO. 600 capital-Increase
S per pound.
In connection with the above il
creases Of prices exacted by these trust
two things should be specifically noted
The prices of the producers OF th
raw material which goes into the maj
ufacture of these articles have not bee
y increased SO tar as these producers al
!, concerned. as they get no more for the
products than they did before thet
trusts increased the prices to the Col
, sumers.
-, Every manufactured article not co,
trOlled by the trusts is today selling fl
the same or at less price than befo
these trusts were organized, thus sho1
ing that the labOring men who mani
facture these goods are receiving I
more wages than formerly. TT
statistics show that The workingm,
receive no higher wages in factOri
- where trust good are mannfactur,
!. than they do where those not made
= the trusts are manufactured. Add,
to all this the cost of living has be,
increased, as shown by the foregoil
table.
All house wives whose husbands vo
for Mckinley and the trusts Can e
pect to continue paying the above i
r creased prices for the next four years