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Show You Cannot Fool a Woman. In a recent number of the Chicago Inter-Ocean Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, of Bloomington, who speaks for herself and to the point, gives her impressions of the McKinlcy bill in tho following terse language: I am a Democrat's wife, but I am sick of seeing such lies as this in newspapers whose editors claim not to be fools. I cut this paragraph out of the Chicago Herald: b "When a woman pays fifty cents more a yard for stuff to make a dress than she would have paid if the McKinley bill hail not becomo a law sho should keep it to herself. So doing she will confer a great favor on President Harrison, who thinks that ho may get another term in the White House if people will quit making 'malevolent' remarks about th tariff. New York Times." 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 tf: it did before the McKinley McKin-ley bill passed? Calico is four and a half cents per yard; a good summer silk costs from twenty-five to thirty-five conts a yard. It used to cost one dollar. Black Bilk can be Iwught for from sixty cenU to one dollar that used to cost from t ko dollars to three dollars and a half. Sugar costs five conts that used to cost eight cents. Ribbons aro half the old price, stockings the same, and jerseys, since they are making them in this country, cost half as much as the imported.' Ladies' things are down. We ladies know that Democratic husbands can lie to each other, but they can't lie to us. We women are not fools. Let Tho Herald Her-ald liar stick to men's things when he lies and not try to lie abont women's things. We won't stand it. I'm a Democratic Dem-ocratic women, but I don't want any lying to keep the party np. Wo women we not fools. Elizabhth Hiw. i |