Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Prices of Carpets. [ARTICLE]

Prices of Carpets.

Of course, the purpose of McKinley and his associates, when they increased the duties on carpets and carpet wools, was to reduce the price of carpets in this country. At least that is what these gentlemen and our other hightariff friends say, and in support of their doctrines they have repeatedly and almost continuously asserted that “the price of carpets is lower than ever before.” Now come Senator Aldrich and Senator Allison with their report on prices, which shows that the wholesale price of carpets began to advance immediately after the passage of the McKinley bill, and that an advance ranging from 6J to 9A per cent, was steadily maintained throughout the nine months of the year 1891 covered by the inquiry. Our high-tariff friends should explain this.