Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Clothing Is Dearer, Say the Tailors. [ARTICLE]

Clothing Is Dearer, Say the Tailors.

There seems to be a misunderstanding between the different sections of McKinley supporters. While the political section is telling us that the foreigner pays the tax, and that prices, already low here, were made still lower by the tariff act of 1890, the practical, everyday working section is taking great pains to inform US' that quite the reverse is true. The tailors, in petitioning Congress to limit the number of suits of clothes admitted free of duty to two for returning tourists, say: “Under this ruling it was possible to enter free of duty vast quantities of foreign-made garments which had never been actually in use, and which were so imported solely because there exists a relative difference of at least 60 per cent, in values between the cost of made-up garments in the United States and Europe, which difference has been fnrther enhanced by certain other provisions under the tariff on woolen cloths of the act of Oct. 1, 1890, as aforesaid, thus saving to the purchaser of garments abroad more than one-half of their actual value upon arrival within the United States duty free. ” What an awful expense the McKinley bill is to our 65,000,000 people, if, under it, garments cost more than 50 per cent, more than they otherwise would. All the imaginary benefits of the most deluded supporters of McKlnleyism will not offset this one item. The burglar may be said to be a thrifty man, because he opens the store long ' before daylight