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Show H The High Cost of Living. H The persistant and undying agitation by the H' daily papers of the large cities respecting the B high cost of living can not but cause one to reflect I Hi on the causes therefor; and in doing so we find that unless the people who are doing the most of the complaining cease some of their methods j which have contributed to the rising prices of Bi food stuffs, prices will continue to advance until B many articles of food will be beyond the finan-, H cial reach of thousands of persons who are now H able, by dint of extreme economy, to have them Hi as a part of their bill of fare. B? '"' One of the chief contributors to the increased B P cost of foods is the rigid- -and oftimes -arbitrary Bj l inspection of foods under the power 'given Bj . . public inspectors by the states and federal gov- Bi ' f ernment. Thousands of bushels of foods "tha'tour B . forefathers would have ccnsfclered ins dosorvingm B place on their tables, are cow -denied .achance.of Bv Bj J -"- i - - - - - - - - - ' TT , i I,, sale or consumption for the alleged reason that they are "unwholesome, ifIn ftftah alone, thefact that apples indicating the presence of a few worms, or with a few small spots of "rot" on an occasional acple, will prevent pre-vent their sale and subject, the owner to liability ior a violation of the law jf he sells or attempts to sell them, and if the owner be found by a food inspector attempting to dispose of them, the entire lot is confiscated and distroved, are doing more than any other-thing to increase the cost of fruits. And such arbitrary laws are not confined to Utah alone, they exist in a number of states, all the re3ult of the agitation of recent years. The men of "learning," (to whom may be given the credit for the agitation which has resulted re-sulted in such laws as above referred to) are unanimously agreed that the farmer is the healthiest class of all our citizens, and for a confirmation con-firmation of this conclusion it is only necessary to consult the government census, ,which is available avail-able in any of the leading public libraries. Every man reared on a farm will recall how, as a boy, he used to eat apples, worms, rot ar.d all and he never felt better in his life than while he was doing it. If he has ever had an attack of the gout, suffered from dyspepsia, or "ptomaine" poison, it was after he left the farmland no longer ate the fruit that was canned "as mother used to can it." The diseases and distress that the "food experts" of the large cities charge to "wormy and bad fruit" is in fact due to other causes. The eating of four or five meals a day, at irregular hours, from 6 a. m. to 3 a. in., partaking of highly seasoned dishes sweets, candies, and the constant loss of sleep and lack of recreation are the real causes for the ills which these "learned" men try to charge to the fruit and the produce. If city people would eat the fruit as it comes from the farm instead of waiting until it has been treated to "colorings," "preservatives," "flavorings," "flavor-ings," and a number of bthejr distinguished processes pro-cesses that might be mentioned, they would find less use for "pink pelletts" and pepsin compounds. As a matter of fact there are ten children in the larger cities suffering bodily ills because of the lack of fruit acids, which fftfit sup'plies, to where there is one who feels any'nll effects whatever from the eating1 of bad fruit Then there are the raetfdsQf putting up foods that have been adopted in riteent years and which the public demands "for theisake of convenience," that is adding to the cost of tfood. Several years ago the merchant supplied oatmeal, hominy, crackers, cakes, and scores of other articles of food in bulk, but today these must be put up in individual individ-ual cartons, nicely labeled and carefully packed. It takes time to do the additional labor necessary to place the articles in the latter condition ready for sale, all of whMch costs the manufacturer money and all of which the consumer must pay for when he purchases one of these articela for his table. |