Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — COSTS LESS TO LIVE. [ARTICLE]

COSTS LESS TO LIVE.

Under tho Now Democratic Tariff ? Legislation. All the Necessaries of Life Reduced In Price. f The Genial Advertiser Knocks Ont tho Arguments of the Able Republican Editor—Advertising Columns of Republican Papers Prove the Falsity of the Claims Made In the Editorial Columns. John W'anamaker Knocks tho Bottom Out of All Republican Theories—Merehants Elsewhere Show the Benefits to the People of Reduced Tariff Hates. Tiie able Republican editor is having a hard time of it these days trying to make his editorial oolumns “consist" with his advertising columns. Tho aforesaid able editor is engaged in a frantio and futile effort to prove that tiie repeal of the McKinley law and tho enactment of a Democratic tariff law is going to lead tho country to tho domuition bowwows and that the laboring man is about to bo driven to übsoluto starvation. But the gonial advertiser is discounting the efforts of the worried editor by announcing prices away below what they worn under the McKinley tariff. Everything almost that tho laborer is forced to buy is cheaper. The advertiser tolls him so, torsoly and in display type. And these are arguments which the able Republican editor cannot overcome.

John Wunaniakor, who was poßtmastor general under Harrison—having bought the position by giving $600,000 to the Dudley blocks-of-flve fund in 1888—sot the ball a-rolling in Philadelphia, and tho columns of tho daily papers in all the large cities of tho country are now filled with similar advertisements. The Effect In Ind),uni. Tho Indianapolis Journal lias been one of the foremost papers in the country to preuch the doctrine of "protection for protection's sake,” but its advertising oolumns are daily refuting its “protection” assertions. The Sunday Journal’s “display pages” are a splendid testimonial to the service which the new tariff is doing for the people who buy thingH. Hero are a few extracts from Sunday’s Journal: Nicoll. the tailor, advertises:

"REJOICE—BE ULADI” THE HOUR OF YOUII SALVATION FROM EXORBITANT PRICKS 18 AT HAND, THE WILSON BILL DID IT. Did it ever occur to you that with the advent of FREE WOOL you get the best imported fabrics for the same price you have formerly paid for domestic fabrics!' Do you realize that you can have a suit made to your measure for as little as sls and $lB from materials wliioh heretofore were offered at S2O and s2sl' And tho Kuhn Tailoring company also bears testimony to tho odvantugo secured by clothing buyers from tho now tariff law us follows: Tho continued tariff agitation lias made it possible for us to buy woolens at such prices that we are now aide to make suits at S2O and $25, which, previous to this season, we could not sell at less than SBO or SBS. Merchants in other linos also bear willing testimony to the lessened cost of living under the now tariff, but the following by the Pettis Dry Goods company will bo sufficient for illustration: NEW TARIFF TRADING Means trailing on tiie basis of the new tariff schedule. That’s tho kind of trailing we did lost week. Our customers liked it, too. Nothing sensational, mind you, but good substantial reductions on goods already affected and on goods that will lie affected sooner or latter by the new tariff. Our customers get the benefit NOW. No matter whether the change takes place Sept. 1 or June 1, all the goods in our store are marked down to the new tariff basis now. SEE HOW BENEFICIAL NEW TARIFF THADINO IS.

JOHN WANAMAKEB'S STORY. Take* Whole l‘ago* to Tell of Reduction. In Price*. But if the Indianapolis Journal is worried by its advertisers, what must be the agony of the Republican editors in Philadelphia, whero John Wanamaker is taking whole pages to tell tho people what a benefit the new tariff bill is to them. Here are a few statements from Wanamaker’s advertisements: In new wool dress goods, cheviots imported to sell.at $1.50 and $2 per yard are reduced to 50 cents; cashmere and cheviot plaids imported to sell at $1.50 and $2.90 down to 75 cents. All-wool sacking goes from 50 cents to 87>£ per yard; sail cloth from 75 to 60 cents; French and worsted serges from $1.25 to $1; Bengalines from $1.50 to $1; silkflgured tamlses and batistes from $1.50 to 75 cents. Broad cloth, in all colors, is cut from $3 to $1.50. Women’s wash dresses, in duck, pique and the like, that have ranged from $3 to $lO, are put down to a uniform price of $2, and a vest goes witli each suit. All silk satins drop according to price as follows: $1 per yard cut to 75 cents; $1.25 cut to 90 cents; $1.50 cut to $1.20; $2 cut to $1.40; $3 cut to $2.25; $3,50 cut to $2.05. On silks the cuts average higher, ranging from 33 to 50 per cent off all along the line. Wanamaker sells everything. In shoes the reductions are as heavy as in fabrics. Women’s calf Oxford ties go from $2 to $1.30. Infants’ shoes go from $1 to 50 cents. High cut Borneo slippers, in all sizes and colors, are reduced from $3 to $1.50. On linens of all kinds the average drop is 20 per cent. On ribbons it is 40 per cent On carpets it is 30 per cent. On silk curtains it is over 50 per cent. On children’s clothing it is 40 per cent. Wall papers go all to pieces, being from 80 per, cent in higher grades to 60 in the lower ones. Men’s clothing goes down 25 to 80 per oent, and youths’ clothing still lower. In Chicago. The Chicago papersj are also filled with, announcements of reductions in prices

due to the new tariff aot. The Tribune, the Republican organ, contains in the Sunday issue almost vertisements of this ohavaoter: Bchlesinger & Mayer start with a page devoted to showing the redaction in dry goods, using this display line as a heading to the list of prioes: FREER, TARIFF PRICES, BY WHICH MANY REDUCTIONS ARE MADE. In Chicago, too, the grooers are telling of cut prioes due to the lower tariff rates. For instanoe, C. Jevne & Co. announce sharp cuts in prioes with thte preliminary statement: IMPORTING DIRECT, WE ARB FIRST I* THE FIELD TO GIVE OCR TRADE THE IIENEFIT OF THE REDUCTIONS IN THE TARIFF. And adds among other things i The change in the tariff enables us to make a REDUCTION In every kind of Imported cheese. All the Chicago papers fairly bristle with similar statements. And the story of Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Chicago is the story of every other oity in the country. In each one prioes on the MKOKSBARIKB of life—the things whioh everybody must have—are reduced sharply os the result of the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. It Is the Proof of the Pudding. Tariff roform is “a condition and not a theory” that oonfronts the people of the United States. During the long strugglo against the trust-breeding mo-nopoly-sustaining system of protection, Democrats have been tolling their neighbors that lower tariffs meant oheaper necessaries of life. The merchants of the land are now demonstrating the truth of Democratic theories by marking lower prioes on their goods. Tiie tariff is a tax and a Democratic congress has reduced the tax. Tho people are getting the benefit. Democracy is vindicated.