OCR Text |
Show I ( UTAH DAILY OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK i: JOURNAL STATE UTAH J. CANNON, EDITOR. NATIONAL PICKET DEMOCRATIC For Praidtat ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-Preadc- nt HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginis. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Prooidontial Elsctors: FRED J. KIESEL SAMUEL NEWHOUSE EDWARD H. SNOW. For Roprosontativo in Congroio: ORLANDO W. POWERS. For Govomori JAMES H. MOYLE. For 8 oo rotary of 8tato: LEVI N. HARMON. For Attornoy-Genora- l: GRANT C. BAGLEY. For Auditor: J. W. GEIGER. NATHAN T. PORTER. For Justice of Supreme Court: CHARLES S. VARIAN. prosperity will continue. TICKET. Second District. For District Attorney: ALBERT a HORN. analysis of the conditions which govern the lives of the American people today, falls utterly to show that an era of great prosIs existent perity, such as administration stump speakers picture, more to live now It costs the citizen of the United States considerably than It did a few years ago. To be exact, the advance In the post five years In the cost of the commodities necessary to sustain life is 17 per cent, while, If there has been any advance during that period In the average wages paid to the man who labors, It le not appreciable. The Increase In price is attributable to the combinations which have s, clothing, coal, household goods, been formed for the control of etc., which combinations are fostered and protected by national legislaThe Increase in the cost of living has increased steadily in the five years to. In 1902 the price of food was 16 per cent higher than in 1896, the year when food was cheapest, and nearly 11 per cent higher than and now. In 1004, things cost more than they did the average for 1890-9In 1902. As a result of this Increase a family spending fl.OOO In 1898 referred i ! il tf H t ; .2 ?! ! 1:1 would have spent $1,170 for the same quantity of things If purchased this year, and if their Incomes be only $1,000 per annum, they must necessarily curtail their manner of living to escape debt. The latest combination to boost prices for one of the necessities of life is that composed of the anthracite coal companies of Pennsylvania. Beginning with last week egg, stove and chestnut coal will sell for from $4.50 to 85.75 a ton. This Is the advance for the fall. When winter comes the trust may decide upon a $6 rate for the best coal. No scarcity of output or strike are responsible. Coal only takes Its place with other necessities, for which the public pays more and more every day. Wagee have not changed materially one way or the other. Workers In the sweatshops draw the same pay they did, but the rents for their tenement have gone up, and the loaves of bread are smaller. With the trusts the statisticians place the burden of responsibllty for advances made on necessities. They point out these as some of the reasons PENCILS, LUNCH BOXES. SCHOOL BOOKS TABLETS, COMPOSITION NOTE BOOKS. ANn f We desire to call public attention to the State Journal as an advertising medium a newspaper from which advertisers' get results. The circulation of the State Journal Is steadily Increasing and it Is growing in popularity as the days go by. If you want the news, or want business, or a chance to Invest money; if you want to secure help, or employment; If you have anything to sell; whatever you want you can get by advertising in the State Journal. buys today what $1,000 did a few years ago. combination of packers has formed a Beef Trust, which has practically put the Western farmers at Its mercy and dictates the price of meat. Tbe packere also control the price of eggs The formation of the National Balt company under the trust laws of New Jersey, controlling 90 per cent of the salt plants of the United States, was Immediately followed by an cents to $1.50. Increase In fine salt from eighty-fiv- e 81.170 O f invitation N. L. Spurgeon extends a cordial Invitation to the ladles to call Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 24, to Inspect a full line of A COMPLETE $10. LINE OF SUPPLIES. The Ross Book & OFFICE Stationery Your Old Front Door tto a Co. Is Open change, so you should call and see the Splendid Line ofFront Doors Just received, as well as a large line of Porch Columns, by the 143 Utah TWENTY-FOURT- (EL H Lumber Oregon 8T. Co. 'PHONE 561 THE JOURNAL Carrier, One Month, 60c. By Mail, One Month, 50c. J. Warners Mrs. Millinery September 23 and 24 All the ladles are invited to call and see the beautiful line of Street Hats; also the latest designs In . PATTERN HATS Itreet, Tailored and 2410 Washington Pattern "pats Avenue. AND BONNETS NO 2374 WASHINGTON AYE. OPPOSITE Z. C. M. I. C. J. A. Lindquist UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER AU Open Wight Telephone U0-2620 Washington Ava. Ogden, Utah. THE JOURNAL FOR RESULTS THE JOURNAL FOR RESULTS ed The dispatch adds that five of these bankers blew out their brains and two committed suicide by drowning. In every case the men had been esteemed among the most reliable and honorable citizens In their community and the unfortunate bank officer hud been driven to take his own lire after a long and hopeless tsruggle to save hi Institution and restore his credit. The loss to the stockholders and depositors of these banks must ha been enormous, for we are told that all the banks "havt been found, upon examination, to be hopelessly insolvent. Yet, Secretary Shaw prates of prosperity and points to the present high prices as a sure indication of It. Now Shaw, before he became secretary of the treasury was a small FROM 25c to Opening FOLLOWED SHAWS ADVICE. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is coining west again: he is billed to make speeches in Utah and to tell the iieople that Republican "prosperity and accompanying high prices which he thinks are so prevalent are the result of Republican policies. It is doutful whether he will dwell upon the disastrous effect which the policies of the g. o. p. have had In his home state, the rock-ribbRepublican state of Iowa, where, as elsewhere, when business Is good and the people prosperous, it would naturally be expected that the banks would participate In the prosperity, but where It seems to be the reverse. Seven bankers have taken their lives in that state during the past seven months and all of tlielr banks have liven found, upon examination. to be hoiMdessly Insolvent. A pres report from Sioux City, published in the Washington Times, enumerates the gruesome list Webster Dictionaries well-kno- around the packing case to strengthen It coat a trifle more than they formerly did. In addition to these the operations of the Wool or Cotton Mill Trust have contributed their share toward raising the price. Stoves and kitchen materials have Increased about 50 per cent The Coal Trust has made a stiff Increase on one end of the most necessary things In life the production of heat In all each of the $00 or more trusts have had their share In reducing the purchasing power of a dollar. v u By dye-stuf- ? MUCILAM 0UNC ed The Argus, a new paper recently launched at Farmington, Davis county, comes to us as an exchange and we gladly welcome Jt. The and popular newspaper man, Dave Felt, la the editor, and he Is assisted by his son, and the result of their united labors Is a most estimable production and one which Is deserving of liberal support The State Journal salutes the Argus and extends to It the hand of fellowship. The formation of the National Carpet Trust resulted In a gradual Increase In prices until soon the public was paying 20 per cent more for carpets than formerly. Eighty per cent of the carpet mills in the eastern and middle states are controlled by the combination. It operates In harmony with the Wool Trust The dry goods or department store, at which the laborer's wife buys a few yards of cloth. Is forced to charge her a trifle more because of the operations of these trusta In the first place, the Chemical Trust has Infs used In coloring the clothes. creased the prices of the The Lumber Trust has added Its mite to the prices of the pine boards out of which the packing case in which the cloth Is shipped is constructed. The Wire Nall Trust has added something to the cost of the nails with which the boards are fastened together. The Nail Trust makes this Increase partly for Its own profit and partly to cover tbe Increase charged by tbe Steel Trust for the raw material. The iron bands, which are nailed . AND FRM FUR ed A ut WE SELL INK f. tariff-shelter- 9, why ARE NOT USED NOW BUT we SELL ALL MODERN KINDS SATISFACTION IS GUARantD ON OUR FOUNTAIN PENS protective tralff, which the Republican party Insists should be "revised by Its friends," meaning the protected trusts, has made its friendly revisions tcu times since the close of the Civil war, and the average duty Is now higher than It was forty years ago, says the New York World. And "President Roosevelt protests against any attempt to disturb the trusts by reducing the duties, which deliver the American consumer bound Into their hands, on the ground that In the process of disarming the great monopolies we might hurt the little producers that crawl in their shadows This is equivalent to saying that the trusts must go on forever. A big trust can breed a little one every year to stand between It and the wrath of a swindled public. There Is no race suicide of trusts. And as long as there Is an Infant corporation to share the plunder scooped from the public pockets by the giants, Mr. Roosevelt will Insist that the looting must not be Interrupted. The tion. Vl Pens The Springfield (Maaa) Union .wanted to know, so it asked Colonel l, Watterson, the brainy and brilliant editor of the Louisville what there was beneficent about the panic of 1893, when, it says, "mills and factories were Idle and men walked the street! looking for work; when It was necessary to establish free soup houses and want and suffering were widespread. And Colonel Watterson told the Union what it wanted to know. It was all as the result of your own doing, your own tariff policy, your own' fiscal policy, and your own Mcklnley bill; for you had everything your own way. Not one single completed Democratic act was on the statute book. Never an idle mill, or factory, but bore the legend of high pro lection, never a soup house but carried the label Benjamin Harrison and the Republican party did this. What Is the matter with you? Are you blind, or deaf, or Just merely keerless like T food-stuff- 1 Goose Quill Courier-Journa- For District Judge: HENRY H. ROLAPP. A careful i 1904. The State Journal desires to congratulate the Logan Journal upon Its conenlargement and Its Improved appearance. Last Saturday our Logan paper In commemoration of the twenty-fift- h temporary Issued a sixteen-pag- e a Its of birth, giving complete history of the paper Itself and anniversary showing how the town and county have grown and prospered. It was an altogether creditable production and we hope that the Journal's evident Superintendent of Public Instruction: THE COST OF LIVING. ,!i 22, follow me and you will have high prices und prosperity. W. B. WILSON. JUDICIAL SEPTEMBER he must have known banker, and being acquainted all over ihe state of Iowa was known In Wall It the condition of the banks and their uiisnundneiis. street. It was known by Dun and Brad street, but Shaw evidently did not know what was going on, or If he did feared to hurt the parly by warning the poor, deluded victims, the farmers and business men of Iowa, of wbat Is supposed to be the might be expected. The secretary of the treasury watchman on the tower of finance to warn hi countrymen und warn them from danger. Watchman, what of the nlghtr asked the Iowa farmers. All's well, beneficent protective promptly came from Watchman Shaw. Thank to the tariff we are on the highest point of prosperity. Listen to Governor Cummings and the apostles of the Iowa Idea' and you will have trouble, but For Troasuror: DEMOCRATIC THURSDAY, JOURNAL STATE The longer eye are deprived of the aid they NEED, the worse become. This Is especially so Inthey deeye fects of young people. The eyes of children should receive special attention during their school days. Many I child might have become a power In the land If not handlcnpped by some bodily defect Of all the ailments to which children are liable, eye defects are becoming the most common. I exercise great care in examinations of this kind and GUARANTEE satlsfac- tlon. I C. P. UTTER Offic The Eye Man In Jasst J. Drivers Drug Stors. kiflMW HUNDREDS OF LADIE8 HAVE VISITED OUR CLOAK DEPARTMENT DURING THE OPENING OF "IROQUOIS SKIRT3 AND MANY HAVE AVAILED THEMSELVES OF THE OPPORTUNITY OF BUYING OR ONE MORE OF THEM. ALL HAVE EXPRESSED THEMSELVES A8 BEING DELIGHTED WITH THE 8TYLES, QUALITY AND PRICE. THERE ARE THREE DAY8 LEFT. WE PLEA8E CALL. KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY THE TIME SPENT WITH US. M I. L. (XARK & SONS COMPANY |