Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — CLOAKS. [ARTICLE]

CLOAKS.

The manufacturers of cloaks acknowledge frankly that they have tacked on advances of 20 per cent, or more and they say the consumer is footing the bill. A representative of Schwab & Co. said to a reporter of the New York Commercial Advertiser: “The prices of cloaks, excepting the seal skin article, which, by the McKinley arrangement, can be sold at the old price have gone away up. Several dollarshave to be added to the price of the imitation seal garihents which most women wear. The manufacturers have to pay the McKinley tax; they pass it on to the retailers and the latter hand it over to t e consumers. Cloaks have gon up from $2 to $lO and more a garment. It is impossi-j ble and useless to conceal the fact."