Show I I AWfUL PRICES ARE CHARGED fOR EDIBLES MRS ms E. E MORRISON GROUT Tha Thanksgiving in comes tomorrow Arc Are you rOil going to have turkey for dinner Its It's 30 cents a a. pound now v and tho wholesale dealer says when asked what will wm turkeys R be a pound Thanksgiving Thanks Thanksgiving shin giving day Probably 35 c cents cents Last car i-car car at Thanksgiving in time you paid 28 cents and fina finally 30 cents i Your our butter has mounted to 50 cents I for tho the best grade Jrade and tho poorest quality sells for 30 and 35 cents E Eggs ar are arc about tho same price Eggs inthe in m inthe the most plentiful season drop to 25 23 cents the retail merchant Sas Sa's says and shows his bill bilI of ot consignment in proof I that he pays 34 cents a n dozen for eggs now from the wholesale dealer Even Een potatoes sell sen for 2 25 and 30 cents a peck peek and the wholesale man mn gets Jets 1 per pounds for them Why I should like to write this little wordin word in in such large e capitals the world mutt must perforce stop and read Have wo we no rio farmer population left lett who raise poultry poultry poul poul- try milk cows and ve vegetables Is the demand greater than the supply all over the United States and docs does this condition condition condition condi condi- tion re regulate tho the BeJin selling price in in this thus city The edibles I have bavo mentioned are those most necessary with the exception exception tion of the turkey but other meats are aro almost proportionately high Wh Why I Il l must repeat Merchants sa say they ar are arc makin making only a 1 20 per cent profit on their sales and ln l from that must bo be deducted deduct cd rent taxes salaries the keeping of ot horses the repair of Wa wagons ons and even en telephone telephone tele tele- phone bills For instance nce A A. A Houston grocer and president of the Retail Merchants association sa says s I have been asked to move unless I will pay a month You see my store is not riot large c. c My occupation tax taxIs is 35 a year the state tax is 55 One telephone costs costA 55 a year the other 50 yearly M My horses cost 25 a 3 month for care Then there are salaries to pay lights and sundry minor expenses ex cx- mount up un also Since Sinco has bas been ben preached here my business has not riot gained gamed 5 per cent of patronage over o that which I had 1 live ve years ago All AJI the tho retail merchants of Salt Lake Lako echo much tho the same samo cry What About Rent You householder who nho rent what do you pay a month for your house 1 Can Cnn you see a just and equitable reason for the difference in Jivin living expenses and that which prevailed a few years ago ngo Have Ha you ever thou thought ht the tho matter out You got get et hi higher her salaries than you could obtain when living expenses wore were less I have been investigating and I find that bookkeepers stenographers and people of many other occupations coming corning com corn ln ing under the tho head bead of skilled labor command an average e of 65 GJ a n month I On the other hand a plumber gets ets 8 1 I an au hour Carpenters get et for eight hours' hours work For the these E the wage is held heM uniform b by tho the a agitation of tabor labor unions unIon The of the United States aro as aI yet t in our transitory stage o rated hi higher hr than the tho arts and an artist artist painter a poet a n singer may mav even with extraordinary talent walk valk along the lower levels for years ears held beld down b bv by inadequate salaries by those who hold hotd the tho purse strings g for mone money spells power and aud I r would write this in hugo huge capitals again But wh why Mans Inn inhumanity toman toman to man mant I do not riot mean by saying ayin this to get t into a bypath of sentiment This subject shrieks and tells itself Wheres Where's the Solution No Xo embroidery embroider of eloquence i is sar- sar sary Where is the animator animated center of this car of Juggernaut which threatens tho comfort romfort and arid industrial life of the thc people Ts Is tho the solution o of our industrial problem in getting back to the land Which fax Talisman TaBs Talis man preaches with such Mich lo logic ie or in jn legislating against the in receiving of the tho great reat horde horda of i re land on our shores g yearly j and Dd- Dd Ddn congest n t our cities citi's 1 For they the herd her in droves c in Pr e every lar large c seaport and inland cit city of our countr country and become the workers in the tho sweatshops th the great stockyards stock yards ards and slaughter houses of or our m municipalities pall tics Is this thiR first of or all nil the thc reason rason of dc dc- mand increased beyond be tho the supply so that it affects even an inland city like this indirectly We all know kno the cities of the United States arc are so con con- grated in population and the question of oC foreign n immigration is so grave aone a aone one tho the government is turning its at at- to the thc reclamation of the tho vast areas of desert ban within its borders I which are arid ni-id only because of the laCK Jack of water Everywhere are aro publications whoso hoso constant theme to humanity is ba back k to the tho land The population tion of tho the Un United feil States s is increasing ing swiftly It has doubled at the tho rate of about once in thirty years cars Wo We are nrc now re receiving reo re- through b our various ports in round numbers a n million of immigrants rants every cry tt twelve ho mouths mouth and this vast ast army must mURt bo be added d to tho the natural in in- crease creise Tho government o has refused and probably always will refuse to ex- ex i those thos who are aro physically and aurl morally mor mor- ally aUy unobjectionable ble and who are not t paupers or likely to tn become a public charge t Do you JOll r realize what a burden the man at the b helm of our country and aDd his contemporary offic officers of oC govern govern- O runt ment carry Your only onh power to help your our condition individually and a as a int interdependent bo body of citizens is to study economic questions broad broadly Why do o you rou not nn tn In inu t. t tion tinn of cause canso nail and effect t. t in your civic and find out O I where discrepancies are arc and wh why th they exist t and the influence up the i industrial lifo of tho the city cit I J dont don't say sav tb the compari om pari 5 son n between ln salaries paul and living Jiving expense here i is ii worse than thant that of other cities but bitt I J shall Investigate n t tho the ron conditions and if get possible mi- mi c data from San Francisco Los An Angeles Seattle and nurl other western rn cities and anti seine gome of those these nearer home borne h where rn much th the Mm freight rates and a agricultural conditions prevail as here and I r. publish them as 15 they Ire are received r. Justice equity quit is all I n we wc t i f for I for a all concerned Of course I J nm am an nn onlooker r hut jf ita a problem worth grappling with anil later for abstract justice to deal with Justice thill this moans means an equilibrium between the tho o of prices an and living H expenses and those scale calo for labor Jabor and ln must or would result in time in the tho p perfect operation co-operation of I capital and labor and benefit 11 all eon con cern rd Did you ever read of the thc teacher who was hearing the history class r repeat the tho stor story of the landing of ot the Pilgrim rim fathers at nt Plymouth Rock and afterward required the class s to go JO to the blackboard anI and draw Plymouth I Rock One little fellow stood shuffling his feet and looking lookin puzzled when bm his teacher the tho matter I Jimmie aud aul he answered What shall I draw a hen hon or a rooster roosted It scorns to me rae that tho city whole wholesale ae men inca have havo learned their history lesson about as ineffectually and are aro short si sighted |