Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18

/ creased Unfortunately don't Dlame tne
| grocer, but investigate the tariff tax
and YOU will find that it is the chief
reason for the increase. If your cloth
| ing is costing more and most of what
you buy does not wear well don't
blame the dry goods and clothing mer-
chants, for the tariff tax is the cause
of the high prices and shoddy goods.
| If your hardware bill is higher and
the kitchen and other utensils do not
wear as we'll as they used to, don't
| blame the hardware merchant ne has
to buy what the trusts sell him and
the tariff protects those corporations
! and allows them to increase the prices
| for their products If your rent has
been raised don't blame the landlord,
for the tariff has raised the price of
! building materials, so that 1t costs
nearly so per cent more to build a
house now than it did before the pres
| furniture costs more than 1t did, and
the cheaper kind is made of green lum-
| Der and soon goes to pieces the tGriH
on lumber and nails and varnish and
all the material that is used in its CON
| struction is the cause of the advance
and the attempt to make cheap furni-
ture with dear materials is the cause
| of its poor quality.
| The average increased cost, of all the
articles that it takes TO keep house, is
Al per cent since 1897, the year this
| prosperity breeding Dingley law was
| placed upon the statute books by the
| Republican leaders.
Housewives who do the marketing
| for the family now require nearly half
as much again to provide the food cad
the clothing for themselves and the
| children as was needed befor this trust
| fostering tariff law went into effect
| That is, If your income was SO a week
| in 1897, it must Vow be $50 10 to buy
the same necessities on the average
Some few things like tea and coffee
have not increased in price, in fact
those articles are cheaper, but there
Is no tariff tax on them. and they are
about the only things you can eat, drink
or wear that Is not taxed and that
some trust, or combine does not CON
troll and has not raised the price of
The important question is, has your
income increased as fast as your out
go? That must be answered by each
individual.
If you do not like to keep asking
your husband for more money to run
the house, you had better talk over the
trust and tariff question with him, and
If he investigates he will see at once
that prices have advanced and that you
need nearly half as much again as you
did in 1897.
Duns Mercantile Agency, that sup
plies information about business af-
fairs to all the wideawake business
men, keeps careful account each
month Of the rise and fall of prices of
all articles that go into general con-
sumption The figures of that great
agency show that on the average prices
have increased Al per cent from July,
1897, to July, 1906. You can INQUIRE
of Dun's agents in any city and they
will tell you so, or you can go to the
library in your town and call for Dun's
Review, which is published monthly
ard see for yourself. If Dunfs Review
is not on file, ask for the Statistical
Abstract of the United States for 1905
and on page 541 you will find the ia
BILE of "Duns Index Number" for the
government has adopted it as entirely
reliable, and not to be questioned au-
thority on that subject In the last
column on the page mentioned you will
see the total for each year, the figures
given being the average per capita to-
tai cost of all necessary articles of
daily consumption for the year.
July, 1897, shows S72.455 and Janu-
airy, 1906, shows $104.464 Taking no
account of the odd decimal this shows
an increase of 1891, or over 46 per
cent increase on the ST2.45, which was
the cost in 1897. Since January of this
year prices have still further advanced.
so that on July l the increase was Al
per cent.
If space permitted, the details of this
plundering of the American people
through the protection granted the
trusts in the tariff law could be given
But if you are interested to know more
about it ask or write to the Democratic
candidate for Congress in your district
to send you the three great tariff
speeches of Hon. John Sharpe Will
Jams, made in the House of Represent
atives during the last session of Con
gress and You will be surprised TO find
what a fund of evidence and informa
ton they contain on this important sub
ject TO the American people. And after
you have investigated the tariff and
trust issue. make up your mind. if it is
to your advantage. TO continue this
system of protectionism by taking the
advice OF the Republicans to stand
pat" and voting TO re-elect Republican
candidates for Congress who have re-
fused TO revise the tariff, although
many of them promised their constiu-
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