Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1890 — “M’KINLEY PRICES.” [ARTICLE]

“M’KINLEY PRICES.”

They Will Be Very High for Evoi-ytlrnrg but Labor. The “McKinley prices’* will be higher, because in this Republican tariff bill the duties on cotton aud woolen materials are raised heavi y along the whole line, but those on goofs used by the laboring masses are made to pay higher duties than are put on the more costly goods used by the rich. The duly on wool, unreasonably high at present, is heavily increased: the duty ou woolen yarns is doubled, and tbe duty on blanketsand woolen stuffs is doubled, and on some of the cheaper qualities, those most used by the poor, is nearly trebled. On some of these goods in universal use the duty is run up to 150 per cent. So, too/the cheaper kinds of carpets have their duty heavily raised. All that means, of course, th t the “McKinley prices” will be very much higher. The “McKinley prices” on houses will be increased by the increased duty on lime and cement—double the present rates--nnd by increased duties on brick and tiles, and by higher duties on glass. The “McKinley prices” on the poor man’s kitchen will be higher bv the increased duty on pottery and on glassware, that on common glassware being increased in some cases more than 100 per cent,; the “McKinley prices” on the poor man’s clothing aud bedding will be made higher by heavily increased duties on blankets, coatings—in fact, on all that he and his wife and family wear or need to keep them warm in the winter or cool in summer. All this in face of a surplus taxation of nearly $100,01)0,000.— New York Herald.