Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1890 — Buying Handkerchiefs. [ARTICLE]

Buying Handkerchiefs.

The McKinley duty on cotton handkerchiefs is 50 per cent, ad valorem, and in linen handkerchiefs is 60 per cent. In other words, when a woman buys a dollar’s worth of cotton handkerchiefs, the price of the handkerchiefs is only 66% cents and the duty is 33%. If she buys a dollar’s worth of linen handkerchiefs, 62% cents will represent tho price of the goods and the duty will be 37% cents. Those duties were imposed for the purpose of helping domestic manufacturers to change higher prices for handkerchiefs. That is what our protectionist law-makers mean by “protection.” They have found out that women do not believe in pro-

teetton, and they are rhying t&d blame of their great defeat upon theak Somehow It is extremely difficult to fA women to see that it is a good thing to make them pay extra high prices in order to line other people’s pockets. Women are queor creatures —to the protectionists.