Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — YOU CANNOT FOOL A WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

YOU CANNOT FOOL A WOMAN.

. In a recent number of the Chicago Inter jQceon M+A Llizabel lt Hunt, of Bloomington Illinois, who speaks for. hersel f and..to the poiiif, gives her impression of the ..McKinley bill in tlte ■ tblknvrng terse langauge: ■ U I aera Democrat’s wife but lam sick of seeing such lies as this in newpapers whose editors claim not to be fools. I cut this paragraph out out of the Chicago Herald.” f “When a women pays fifty cents more for a yard for stuff to make a dress of than she would have paid if the McKinley bill had not become a law, she should keep it to herself. So doing she will confers great favor on President Harrison, who thinks that he may get another term in the White House if the people quit making ‘malevolent’ remarks about the tariff.” “Now, don’t this fool Democrat who edits the Herald know, or can’t his wife tell him, that everything a woman wears costs less than it did before the McKinley bill was passed? Calico is four and one-half cents per yard; a good summer silk costs from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a yard. It used to cost SI. Black silk can be bought for from sixty cents to $1 that use to cost $2 to $3.50. Sugar costs five cents that used to cost eight cents. Ribbons are half the old price, stockings the same, and jerseys—kince they are making them in this country —cost half as much as the imported. Ladies’things are down. We ladies know that Democatic husbands can lie to each other, but they can’t lie to us. We women are not fools. Let the Herald liar stick to men’s things when he lies l and not try to lie about women’s things. We won’t stand it lam a Democratic woman but I do’nt want any lying done to keep the party up. We are not fools.”

“ELIZABETH HUNT.”