Show ANYTHING FOR AN EXCUSE One of Ceorge Ades fables tolls of two men who were together at a social end happened to their Ivo talking man discovered by his conversation that she fairly worshipped him though lie thought she was indifferent the other husband that his wiM thought hint some somethIng thIng of a frost though lie had sup supposed posed she was completely Infatuated with bun When the party broke up both men got drunk the one because Iu so happy the other to droWn his sorrow The moral was Any AnythIng thIng for an excuse The same sort of logic seems to have of restaurant keepers men and everybody else who is looking lot a chance to increase his The plea is that everythIng Is dearer and we have to raise prices w Orleans the hotel men an flounced a raise of 26 per because said the pure food law compelled to canned goods Only and these had up Of course the title was untrue the law does not bar any pure food American European Mongolian or African Nor does the of canned goods in any good hotel cut ouch a figure itt the cost of food as to even suggest a rise of this kind even It the price of the food had risen The simply meant to gouge the public and wanted to Un the for their act on the handiest subject they could find it has been so with a good ninny oth Cl copper hia ad the of clock have boosted their wares a jump in cab cabbage bage of a cent a head would be ample for some restaurant men to dou double ble the price of or cold slaw A In the Columbia would mean an in the price of salmon or some of tile avaricious and a blizzard on the sheep range would an ox for lifting the price of mutton ChOlS In this the little fellows are only taking a note from the book of the trusts its far as they dare and lug the diro necessity of others to acid to their own profits Fortunately the law of demand and works yet with more or less The public is slow to wrath and slower to recognize discrimination but It eventually locates any wrong and when it does takes its own way of righting things Now Orleans men discovered that the crop of is limited the restaurant man who boosts prices unduly ers that competitors are not always as as he and the landlord vho on rentals finds In Inthe the long run that the good tenants who dont have to stand imposition pay bet Let in the long run the man who gree to pay an price The cost of living has doubtless in increased creased t deal within the past five years but with wheat way below tile dollar mark fancy cattle at to top p hogs at to or thereabouts and sheep belOw 0 in Chicago the commodIty prices are a way from f quotations yet The man who t have nothing but porterhouse chice cuts of everything is penal for his tastes but one who really wants to live within his means and save money need not suffer at the current earning capacity of a good inait In any line of activity |