Show I ITHE THE TIlE COST OF LIVING i A correspondent writes to the New York World a pitiful story of the cost of living He declares that he cannot see how I families are to maintain the American standard of living iv with wit l pr prices ces as they are areat areat areat at present T. T They ey stand off the beef trust by c ceasing ceasing ceas ceas- as asing ing to buy meat they cannot dress as Americans ought to dress but they have to dress as as the poor of the old world do Prices have advanced probably 30 per cent in the last seven years years The advance has been inevitable because prices always alway advance with the increasing volume of money The trouble is that wages have not advanced as fast as other things The only help for the poor is isto isto isto to get more wages Either Eithe that or to elect a Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic cratie President an and Congress Th That t would cause cause a great portion of pE the money money of the country to to be locked up nd prices would fall back to what they were ten years ago The only trouble then would be beto beto beto to get the mone money to pay fo for things thing's because it i is true that that- thata a person with 5 in h his pocket can pay a dollar for a beefsteak easier that the person with no money in m his Pocket can pay 20 cents f for r a shank bone to tomake tomake tomake make s soup up of |