Show I T THE E HIGH P PRICES ICES Ill 1903 business was at the lowest loest stage in in this j Half hail the tho money had been destroyed XO t. t K t of f the r rest st had been locked up half the rali ralin ral ral- i l were in in the thc hands bands of receivers farmers could cul i. i ship i their produce to market because it wo would J enough to pay the fright charged and ancl I sitS sith sit- sit shameful It was Avas a most vc yc the them 1 anything h tion n because al altogether together unnecessary necessary S rU After fter fter 94 9 things began gan to improve a little but nt famine famme it much until after 96 06 Then there was Avas Xi f southern herr Europe ll p in in Argentina ill in Australia in inand inand J dl and the he whole l le had to come t to us for forThe In instant awakening result fiod 1 The was an fL Jt m months the money t e of the country had been l ed by O O OO i. i Between 1897 and 1904 l i en y years the prices of oc commodities according io London o dDn Ec Economist had ad advanced 13 lC per cent 1 t t m inthe next throe thre between 1904 and 1907 e was Avas a further rise rise of nearly 22 p per r een cent and it itan t re was Avas no corresponding rise rIse in m wages ages Man an to be very hard for men working on small I i s to provide for their families 1 r T The HJ panic nic of of 1907 lQ again reduced th the price of f little but not much that is IS a very sharp fall but there was Avas a sudden reF re- re 71 l r. r was a I reduced rates lasted ten i F ion and rise The rhe v H then they the began to shoot khoot up again a ain In the i Y t few ew weeks s or rather in the last a t four months f advance has nas been so great reat that it has I got ot to be bell beto ll Jl to weal wealthy hy people p ople and those directly HI d in ill the w welfare of the country Thou Thoa- 1 ids what causes the ance and andi U. U i ai giving are giving ging answers that it is the abnormal 5 5 k Jt ld output t others that t it the is-the trusts others the habitual of 1 ff others the extravagance f f others that it comes conies from the exhaustion or V of the country's natural resources Inhere here can b be 10 but two tAvo causes The he inere increased sed I of S gold ld is S one ne i that is IS the increased volt vol- vol t of r gold in circulation and the other is the tW I 1 by hy hi men l n. n club club together to ether and amI control output of ol the SOl soil and without paying any t ai ad advance ance to the producers they are charging prices to the consumer j r yo of no rem remedy except in in- each in-each each place aby a r medY by establishing stores and giving to to toj J j their food at a normal profit over its f Another is is isto to broaden br aden the commerce of the he theand theand Y and the industries of the country and give n re men n employment that more men may he be able i ft gh their employment to pay for foi the increased d f CP p- p t. t SS I is a bad situation an and to the cautious man mau maUj fis is is f full n of omens omen of disaster because when floe poor tip n not rt t get enough to eat then crimes Climes increase and dlf lt sp ct for law increases and the men grow cal cal- jf ugh much sufferings to the demands of them and and the self- self lu r upon grow more more that they ther were originally when the Z f jl 1 was Avas simply a great struggle for existence f. f 1 the law of might ruled everything |