Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — Full Tariff Prices. [ARTICLE]

Full Tariff Prices.

For some months the prices of imported dry goods in the New York market have been gradually moving upward toward the new tariff standard. The large importations last smnme" and fall, made at that time in order to escape the new McKinley duties, overstocked the market, and for some months it was not possible for the importers to realize the full prices which the McKinley law would eventually make necessary. It seems, however, that, the time has come when full new tariff prices are demanded and, with much hesitancy and objection, are paid. The New York Commercial Bulletin has just said, in reviewing the foreign dry goods market, that prices “are firm, and as strong in promise of continued stability as in actual condition. Importers feel perfectly sure of their position, and express no lack of confidence in their ability to maintain full new tariff prices throughout the season. Buyers have about abandoned'hope of breaking the market by a holding off of the Remand. Nevertheless, current prices do not suit them. ” It must not be ’supposed that these foreign goods are entirely such as only the rich can buy. Many of them are the goods of the poor man. Nearly every yard of linen goods worn in this country comes from Europe. Most of the cheaper stockings have been imported, and the same is true of coiduroys, cotton plushes, etc. The imports of all kinds of cheap foreign dry goods would be vastly greater if it were not for the McKinley tariff wall. The tariff is a thing to prevent the people from getting what they want.