Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE TARIFF IN SUMMER DRESS FOR HOTWEATHER READING.

17 CENTS OR 25? 15 1-5 CENTS OR 20?

A fancy wash fabric manufactured in New England for 9 2-3 cents a yard is sold by the manufacturer at 14% cents—a manufacturing profit of 47% per cent., less selling expenses of 5 or, at most, 6 per cent. The jobber (wholesale distributer) adds 3% cents—a profit of 22% per cent., less selling expenses. The retailer adds another 42 8 per cent., and the American housewife gets the cloth at 25 cents —cloth that in England can be bought retail for 17 cents, identical in weave and oualitv' WHY? Cotton curtain scrim, found In millions of homes, is made in America at a cost that givers the manufacturer ample profit, selling it to the print works at 6 cents a yard. The print 1 works sells to the jobber at 10 1-3 cents, although it finishes the goods at a cost of 1.37 cents. The jobber adds 20 per cent., laying down the curtain scrim to the department store at 12% cents. The retailer charges the American housewife 19 to 29 cents. More than likely he advertises it as “IMPORTED” and sells it for the top price, because the tariff is so high that the genuine imported goods cannot be sold for less. It costs just as much in England to make this curtain material, yet the English retailer sells It for 15.22 cents (7% pence) a yard, against 19 to 29 cents under the American tariff! WHY?—From N Y. World.