Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — THE M’KINLEY PRICES [ARTICLE]

THE M’KINLEY PRICES

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CONTINUE ON THE RISE. THE SWINDLERS PERSIST. The Indianapolis News (Republican Those “swindling merchants” who “ou ht to be boycotted,” according to the chai icterization of the McKinley newspapers for their “lying" about an advai.ce in prices for election purposes, still keep right on after the election. They insist that prices have risen, are rising and will rise on account of the McKinley bill. For instance a circular from Van Horne, Griffen 4 Co., a New York house; one of the best known in the trade, dated November 19, says: We are compelled to withdraw all former figures on enamelled, ground and colored glass, and hand you herewith our new price-list, on which the discount is 40 per cent. We regret to advance prices on these articles, but are compelled to by the enormous increase in duty imposed by the new tariff bill, known as the “McKinley bill.” As an example, the duty on enamelled and ground glass is advanced from 45 percent, to 140 per cent., besides obliging us to pay full duty on broken glass. Another of later date, from another firm, notifies the dental profession: The McKinley bill having raised the dut on plaid pin teeth of our manufacture from $17.50 to $52.50 perjl.ooo, we are unable (for the present) to import any further shipments of these teeth. We cannot, therefore, execute wholesale orders, but will continue to supply the profession at existing retail rates until our present stock is exnaxsted. Our pinless teeth we shall have to advance to the following rates, etc. In a Milwaukee, Wis., paper appears this advertisement: By act of Congress, October 1.1890, the tariff on cigars was increased $2 per pound, advancingthe cost from S2O to S3O per mills. We still bavesome goods which arrived prior to the operation of this act, and offer these at old prices for a limited time. And so the “swindling” business men keep up their conspiracy. They persist in telling the 65,000,000 people of the country that goods cost more because of the McKinley bill, and the consumer will have to pay it before he consumes, or else universally adapt Jay Gould’S advice to his supplies of everything, that “where he has heretofore had two suits he will have to get along with on<-."