Show THE TIIE H TARIFF AND COST TO THE PEOPLE There are a goodman members of congre ho 1 five ve but crude ideas about some sonic very verr important af- af irs The free traders there have made their jents from flom the e first t on the sc score re that they thy want a 1 r tI reduction 10 in order to reduce reduce the price of the of ot life to the poor It has been shown in the last few da days s 's that a tariff tariffS S l does not affect those prices to any material ex ex- S. S tnt tent that the articles received from manufacturers re placed by the wholesale merchants at a profit which makes the tariff on the article insignificant fre- fre fluently advancing the cost and per But Thit outside of ot all that there is another feature which congressmen seem incapable of understanding They tell that under the Dingley bill the price of living liv liv- ing has advanced steadily for years until now it itis itIs is double what it was ten years te rs ago The They seem incapable in in- capable of understanding that when the money volume voLS vol vol- S uJ ume loof of a country the money in circulation among the people doubles then it is but an inevitable result that tho the price of ever everything thing in that countr country must double likewise rany a farmer for instance in the cast when he get gets gt through inveigling inveighing against the outrageous cost of living will tell a friend that he ho has done remarkably remark remark- i c. c ably bly well this last fifteen years that while his farm 1 Brought him Mm good profits the farm itself has i n doubled in value alue and while he scolds I p increased cost of living he sells his corn at S r. r tents cents ent a bushel that he be was glad to get 35 cents f for or fifteen years ago his oats at nt that he never thought of getting over o 10 cents for ten years ago his Ids wheat at whereas twelve years ago it was worth only 75 cents Wheat does not change so much mucha a a the other products of the farm because became the price f. f wheat really reany is established by what it is worth in 11 put Jut the general proposition is that a man mall cannot cannota c on a farm and in a few years rears have e that farm t. t rouble ia in l value alne except that the money of the country coun coun- try tri at large largo has doubled 5 H Hero ro in Utah the farmer is getting twice as much k a her did two years ago but the consumer in the cit city one ono that suffers The fhe middleman here takes 11 t product from from the farmer and he doubles it again tho result is 18 that tho man who works for a small 1 can barely barel- live for labor is the last thing to advance I Under the Commercial club clubs club's a patronage and the impetus which the club gave ga the cause a great work J 1 16 been a Dean been dono lono during tho the last week week has J for a n worthy cause Now if the Commer Commer- pi club wants to do a really splendid thing for the 6 it will take hold of this matter of the y S middlemen who are arc robbing the people here as no I people were over ever robbed before until within the last half dozen dOlen years We the great steal began in San Francisco S about six or seven years ago that holds its own in int t city in a most shameful way No one has been beene beenS S l e ihns hns far to brin bring the matter up where the courts S upon it and that at best isa tedious process I he thing to do is to go right at the root of the theand fir Iter and without trying to break up this thi nefarious 1 leas to establish a department store hero here and put J uthe hands of capable men with the purpose and nation to supply people with food at reason reason- t I prices Have one man who understands how to jI wheat heat another man who understands how v to vegetables and fruit another who is man a per- per judge of groceries and so on and give C the people chance to get something to eat and at the same time ot to be robbed |