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Show DRY C00DS RATES RAISED. There Seems to be So (.nod ltpasmi for It Kut It ha Hern Ilfclili'd. New Yokk, Oct. 3. Special. Reports Re-ports received hero from diy goods dealers all over the country are to tho effect that current rates today were raised today 20 per cent. This increase in prices was not quite unexpected as it had been determined upon at a recent meeting held in this city at which representatives rep-resentatives of the leading drp goods establishments of the country were prccsut. At this conference it was claimed that one of the causes for scarcity of money in business circles was due to the fact that all available money on hand had been sent abroad to pay for inere:t.ed importations which American merchants were bringing over to escape tiie provisions of the Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley bill. The customs figures show that these claims are well founded, but as dry goods men were not taxed any more for imports now than they were last year, there does not appear to be any reason why prices should be rim up on the consumer. The present condition of business is the most prosperous in the history of dry gomls trade, and a remarkable feature, which goes far to refute the statement of tight money in legitimate business circles, is that most of the orders from the west are accompanied accom-panied by cash or short time 'The shipments in the last three weeksto the west are said to surpass any previous month since September, when the movement to tho west was larger than ever before. |