Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1890 — HOW ABOUT PRICES. [ARTICLE]

HOW ABOUT PRICES.

The Democrats and free-traders having been claiming that the new tariff bill has increased the cost of clothing. A day or two ago the largest clothing firm in the State advertised that suits which sold five years ago at from $8 to sl6 have been selling this yearat^fram-ss—t-b"stO. and" that there will be no increase in price. The reason they give is as follows: There is a powerful agency con • stantly at work that regulates commerce. It touches every interest, be it great or be it small; it reaches every industry throughout the length and breadth of the land. It enters the cotton and the woolen mill, and its influence is felt at the forge and the furnace. It visits the palatial stores of the metropolis and leaves its impress upon the trading post upon the outskirts of civilization. So powerful is. it that jt takes gigantic monopoTyhy the throat and forces it to the common level of its class. It is called competion. and may be relied upon to always stand protector to the consumer as against extortion and a greed for gain. There is no advance in prices with us.