Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-23 | Page 4 | Prices Go Up

riuoss GO UP A firm in this city that handles largo numbers of sewing machines organs and stringed instruments placed an order with with an eastern firm for 5303 worth of stringed instruments just before the passage pass-age of the McKNiEV bill A day or two ago they received the goods accompanied by a congratulatory letter from the eastern firm stating that their ordering just when they did had saved 5175 to themselves and customers custom-ers The McKiXLEi tariff had increased the price of 300 worth of stringed instruments t instru-ments to 5475 and the latter is the price anyone must no7 pay for the same lot of goods that formerly cost but 300 Who pays this tariff tax Ask anyone that has to buy stringed instruments or tho equipments for them I you ask a Republican H Repub-lican he will tell you the foreigners pay the tariff tax i indeed he doesnt deny altogether alto-gether that the tariff is a fax