Show SUPPLY IS SHORT The Tho New Now York Commercial has been be n a lively Interest in the inquiry Into the tho high cost of or living and some sometime sometime sometime time ago arrived at the conclusion that the supply is not equal to the demand Taking the census estimates of population population population tion and the department of ot agri airl agricultures agricultures cultures estimates of food toad animals in lit 1901 and 1910 It has discovered that the the number of food animals anim ls in the country has decreased dt about five fhe million since s ce 1901 While the population has mean meantime meantime meantime time time Increased at least twelve million mn ri The Tho number of ot cattle decreased from in 1901 to while the number of ot sheep decreased from to and swine decreased from to making an aggregate decrease of about five million mil million lion Hon The population Increased according accord according accordIng ing to the estimate for June 1 of 1901 and d s from O Jo This food animals to each hundred persons persons UK in 1901 and only In 19 Oi a decrease ase of 16 per cent These res bear b af out the assertion of Utah senior nl r Senator S that the tariff has nothing whatever to do with the high cost coat pf meats Unless the supply more nearly n arl equals the demand it will wn willbe willbe be a long Iong time before beef pork and mutton are sold to the consumer at less than present prices The excitement e over high prices pr ces has been waning for tor some time past People are ore beg beginning nning to realize that they are the result of ot the natural natu l law of supply and demand demanda a law late Immutable as those th se of the Medea Medes and Persians |