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Show i II I Hidil Effect Upon i TTTk T Nation Hard fj JrriCeS Describe 5j Ry WIYTIIROP L. MARVIN 'ill I'liM'KS iii tli.-ir flTtt ion the tuition eiuinnt I 1-TUf 1-TUf mtiIkiI Willi cxii. tni. n, citluT j."k.,1 or Imil in tlieinwlvi. ItulluT hit tlir-y, iia a nil.-, the in.l.-x of hitfh wajri-s, liili stun-JkA stun-JkA tlards of living mid a Inrjfe ami buoyant prfpTitv. It wmiM Ik- I unniil tiling, .l(ul.llos, if o tonlj havo, niilf by Hide Willi jTh K ''" M'"' "f America, tlio low prior of lWr t'liiiin, India or Siatti, but lliu i.li-nlist must m kliowliilr W lluil thin in utli-rly imprint ii-ulile, fur aflcr all it ia usually IwJ and r nlinliy lliu wn'c lliat iniikcs tlic price. Wli.n wn'o in rcjic price nlinnt notrsmtrily rise also, though not always in the nunc proportion. It smnt'li tries hapix'ti indeed. it linn tifen happened in the development of nim of the greatest iti.ltistries of America that iii.'ivnsiiij; wage have pone hand in hand with tl.vreiis-ing tl.vreiis-ing price, through the skillful use of lulxir-mivino; machinery, strenuously strenu-ously driven at the utmost spev.1. The happict economic condition actually actu-ally attainalilc ia that in which higher price and higher standard of living liv-ing are outstripped by a steady, nul.-lnn tinl increase in the earning of the work people themselves. That fortunate condition deem to bo exemplified in our own country more signally than in any oilier nation in the world. There is one elan, however, though a small one, on which the higher cost of living undoubtedly presses without any alleviation. Tbi ia the ierons dependent on a fixed income from such sources as the stated intercut on bonds, or the recipient of allowance or annuities. To such persons a thec in this time of universal soaring of price, not even those ancient refuges, the provincial towns of continental Kurnpe, hold out much hoe of ecaM, nor are their lamentations heard and heeded in leg-"- islative halls. For the pervere statesmanship of modern Christendom, swayed more and more by a sordid need of the support of popular majorities, majori-ties, everywhere insist on deferring to what it regard as the grcutc.it good hAjJL tV-. of the greatest nnnilcr. TWWvwj |