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Show PRICES RISING ALL OVER THE WORLD. tit i speech he delivered in the House or Representatives on May 5, Timothy T. Ansborry of Ohio, Longworth's tal ented colleague, deduced the entire doctrine of prices from "tho selfish interests of employers," and cited Henry George in support of the doctrine. doc-trine. This may bo the way it works in Defiance county.but in the rest of the world, If dependence may bo pfaced upon the offlcal roports of our consuls' tho prices of intellect and labor la-bor and of tho things that thoy produce pro-duce appear to have some connection with taxes, tho cost or living and the supply of money In which prices are expressed. I Some incontesllbleevidence was adduced ad-duced in our issue of' March 9 which showed hat durjng LbeNlast ,decado Ihe costof. living had advanced from .3 per cent to 50 per cent in thp Unit-or Unit-or Statcs,vand more or' less irj other countries. The consular reports from England, Eranco. Denmark, Gorrriany, Italyy Turtfov and Australia exhibited tho "same phenomena, though in most cases less marKpd than In tho United States and Canada. We may now add some further roporL5 from simllnr official of-ficial sources, all testifying to a. rise in the cost of living, which seems world wide. For Great Britain, tSaurheck's index iuimbers, denoting the average aunual s I. ' ' ' i , sgpg iCZ , t ,-g |