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Show Tito. MciLt.l.y i'rlv.s I I'UlladcliM.ia Pres. I One year ago the democratic news pipers were engaged in their atupuD. dous campaign of lying about the Mtv Kinley law. They were charging thai it would ruin tho farmers, compel tho great mass of the people to contribute to the overgrown wealth of a few monopolists mon-opolists and brin?; disaster generally on the country. The prediction these t.iV.fiers made was that there would be a great rise in prices on all manufactured manufac-tured goods and that the farmer would have to take lower prices for his j products, while he had to pay more fur everything ho had to buy. E '.tracts from gome of tho newspapers newspa-pers that aided in this campaign of misrepresentation mis-representation are instructive now. For instance: The Now York I'u.'t Baid: "McKini.ky ia driven into a corner by the prices of goods his bill has created, nnd there is no course loft for him but to teil tho people that it is for their interest in-terest to pay more for what they buy." Tho Buffalo Courier also said: "The .Mi K ini. kv dtit.es on woolen goods are si in .1 y ilamnabio. They are the most buY lei:-, me and indefensible taxes ever levied upon the people of this country. They are specially burdensome on the poor and on persons of but moderate meanf " The New York Il'orWand the St. Eouis ,'( I'ltiilu: also contained pages of ciitg and tables trying to prove the enormous rise in prices that must result from the passage of the Mi Ki.Ni.KY bill. It is useless to give illustrations from this neighborhood as to the falsity of these assertions, ns every one hereabouts here-abouts knows the situation himself. It is more pertinent to show how tho Mckinley Mc-kinley law has operated among the iarir"is, Ihe very class that the democratic demo-cratic newspapers claimed would be injured in-jured most by it. The Minneapolis 'J'rihiiin- reprints extracts from a letter written by a corresponded from Wat-ertown, Wat-ertown, S. IV, to one of its contemporaries, contempo-raries, in which he speaks as follows: The Waterti'wn Depart inent Store Is the lari.i .t uiiiri'iiiitn . liouie In Dakota and hau-dii'Miveiy hau-dii'Miveiy fuiit! thtt eiiturs into family supplies. sup-plies. I visited this institution, anil thu i;,au-I i;,au-I er at my reijitest made an exhaustive inves-liai inves-liai mil into ihe relative cost of goods today, as , iimiari.i with AuuiiHt ai, Isuo. He found dial they had purclius -d In the dry goods Ue-piu'tniuut Ue-piu'tniuut tli'-lr Panne's, underwear, and vel-vis vel-vis .it s pur eent i.i'low Inst year'i purcliusiUK prices; eluuks and clot him. 10 per cent below, ami ether dry iromis at tuft same rates. the if rn. ery liepn'tmeut, suuar. 4i; fruits, eann. J aliii i,r,.'d. iu; to'iin c... 1 p.-r cent hetow, an.l a mi'- iv.-raL'.' of in per cent redueiloii in tno j run nf tie- nr ry rr-ele. Shoes were bought I r. .r tteir f:ill and winter et.ek 3 percent t.e-io,v t.e-io,v last yea.', and m;inuf3, tur.-d tlnwaro 5 per 'e'lit tn'itiw; ero krry, u llliueiy, au,l shcif 1 h odware nn. liani'eil. "TiieMe reduciioiirt in , t .e lur.'iiaHe prici." aid Mr. stneer. the inan-i inan-i ai-.-r. "tuive enai'le'i us to make our i"ta:t i j,....s tliri.uKiiout the store m.T.) than 1C p.-r c":it loer thaa last year or evt-r Pcf ore ,u 1 D;.koia." I No more s;trniticant proof could be given thau this of the wanton lyiair ilone by the democratio newspapats last jear. It shows that, instead of increasing, in-creasing, the prices of groceries and manufactured goods have fallen even in one of the further western states, and in a wholly agricultural community commun-ity where the prices of such things yield the latest, lint this is not all the proof this correspondent gives. A firm in the hardware business furnished him with a list of the prices of articles ho dealt in as they stood ono year ap) and as they stand today. This is especially interesting as showing tho utter recklessness reck-lessness of the tin-plate lies of the democratic dem-ocratic newspapers. It is as follows: lsi-0. 11. M'tr.i nails M..V) t.i.73 Spade J .(HI .01 'I .m kettle so .Ni Fo trtorii-ijUfirt tiislomn no .nil ll.ih anled pail 7ft .10 Joint stovepipe :.'! .'0 '"iirti'eii-,iiiari tin pail Ml ,rt5 Tweive ipian tin pall Hi Ttirei' ou irt tin tail Hfi .15 Two-.piart tin pa'l 'ji .10 Milk pans, per dwn l.rj) l.m) 'i n, cup.. 05 .05 The storekeeper added: "Our customers' cus-tomers' money will go almost 25 per cent further than it ever did before." With such facts constantly comiti;; lo light, proviug the wantonness of tho laUehoods told a year ago by the democratic dem-ocratic newspapers, it is ensv to agree wita the Aliunuapolis l'riii)ir that "when a man is told that tho McKinley bill increases the cost of a given article, arti-cle, and then goes into a store and btivs it for It) per cent less than he did a year ago, that man bogins to suspect that tho democratic educator is either dishonest dis-honest or too ignorant to run an educational educa-tional bureau." This is the conclusion to w hich the intelligent people are coming, com-ing, as the democrats will discover to their confusion. |