Show PRESS PRES PARAGRAPHS Again the tho increased cost o of living causes the newspapers to speculate St St. Paul Dispatch Dispatch tIThe The politician the statistician and tho economist alike have nave failed to toll tell us in precise and intelligible in terms why prices aro are so high Baltimore Sun Sun HIt It is not th tho well to do who pay the hi highest hest profits Mr l Wilson Vilson states but the poor who buy tho the lower grades rades of beef It is tho history of nearly industry that when a trust or combination secures secures se sc cures control or commands enough power to dictate prices are arc increased without reference to supply and de mand A trust generally char charges es all the traffic will bear Denver Republican Republican- Republican liTho The The fact that thai this rise in prices is seen in freo reo trade Britain ns as well as in all other countries of Europe a and d in the United States demonstrates de do that some bomo extremely widespread wido wide spread prend an and prevalent cause has lies produced pro the change In the enormous increase in in- crease in tho the production of gold told this cause may in jn a n largo large measure be found Utica Press Reform Press Reform by the extravagant extra consumer is as necessary in in meeting meet in ing and ch checking the advancing ancin cost of living as is the thc need of more farmers and farm woJ ors or more efficient methods of a agriculture ri rc or moro more and Letter means mean s Sf f distribution or healthier healthier health health- ier trado trade co it j s. s or or wise rc regulation lation of mon monopoly p ho correction of f any other ca e cau e. e which mj might ht bo be enumerated as 1 t to scarcity and dear- dear neu Philadelphia hia Record Record- Record The The thin things s th that t contribute in greatest degree e to Swell tho the cost of living r in tho the United States may bo DO very briefly set forth A tariff levied ostensibly for revenue but actually to advance c tho the price of commodities in the homo home I market costly casU naval and military inflated pen pension pension pen peri- sion payments extravagance in all departments de do- of the Uie public service and vast municipal expenditure Atlanta Constitution Shall wo we feed o ourselves or shall we pay others thors to to feed us Shall we make tip up th the deficit of our tables from abroad at an in n enormous cost or 01 shall wo we fill fin our p pantries tries fr from m our ow VP o acres and ancl sell tho the surplus at a That is is tho the meaning of agricultural education i education presenting presenting pre pre pre- a problem not so glittering as but incomparably more moro important than any ally other ono one now facing the American Ameri Amen can people people- Boston Herald Tho The The problem deserves de cle IC- IC serves t to be handled by a n special commission com corn mission of experts experts' who shall be given sufficient authority to probo probe to tho the bottom bottom bot bot- tom tom of causes to which they may trace the the- facts of increased living cost There is no need of statistics to demonstrate tho fact fad of off this increased cost What is wanted anted is f the causes behind these facts V Whether tariff or trusts whether government or individual extravagance let the tho facts be established that the proper remedies dies ma may be applied Omaha World Herald World Herald Bread is not tho the only American product sold cheaper in London c than in iu Chicago f 1 Most st of the thc products of our factories and mills milIs when whon shipped across the ocean aro are sold to foreign n consumers considerably cheaper than those same samo products arc are sold at nt home Is the American consumer con can sumer gettin getting a square deal deaU If not whoso whose fault is iR it 7 Why are arc wo wo we producing producing ing out ont of the sweat and groans and tears of tho the poor more multimillionaires multi million aires in the United States than in all the monarchies and despotisms of the rest jest of the thc world combined 7 Times Gazette Times Gazette Thero I arc aro tam tain n natural tural caus causes s which unquestionably ably have much to do with tho the advancement advance advance- ment meat in prices that ia is evoking woking such general complaint These are recognized as unavoidable and do not necessarily occasion r resentment but the they do not account for nil all tho the difference in household house hold bold and living expenses that han haM arisen it is if of f profound importance import import- ance that ha the public b be enli enlightened If f combinations of producers rs have made mado it possible to lay a heavier burden upon the tho consumer consumer than the law of supply and demand imposes thon then the tho sooner this thiR is ascertained and some measure of relief is devised the better |