Show THE CANADIAN FRESS PRESS FRESS Ottawa Journal Judging by tj th number Interesting themselves In this thirty-day thirty abstinence from meat as a protest against Its Us price there will be bea bea a a. more general and stricter observance of ot Lent this year than for tor many seasons seasons seasons sea sea- sons past Quebec Chronicle However severely an Increase in the cost of ot living presses presses' on the th Individual during the tho transition period the advance In rentals and other collate ala of domestic comfort is an I exponent of communal prosperity There are exceptions of ot course to this way of looking hooking at an advance In prices as in times of ot war wal and scarcity of supplies Montreal southwestern Gazette Some farmers angered at the charges made I t their class In connection with the 1 high f h cost g of ocla necessaries b a I etc threaten te to boycott the labor unions' unions work and to advocate free tree trade The latter Is perhaps per per- haps the tho most roost significant feature of ot the situation It suggests that what some have had In view in fomenting th the agitation agitation agi agi- tation is coming to pass s The e public tI rg rt or is looking upon itself as a bO body of consumers con con- Burners sumers not as producers Toronto Globe We must accept without without without with with- out further question or protest the permanent permanent per per- manent effect of ot Improvements In the transportation of ot perishable goods The markets of ot the world have been brought brough within reach of or our food producers and and the result must be a permanently higher range of ot prices This must Increase the cost of living here to a proportionate ex extent extent extent ex- ex I tent but the producers gain far more than the tho consumers lose hose Ultimately the result must be beneficial to the Dominion Dominion Domin Domin- I ion as s a a whole so the stringency of ot the period of ot adjustment can be borne with patience Winnipeg Free Press The meat boycott boycott boycott boy boy- cott in the United States will hurt the employee of ot the trust the retail butchers and other Intermediaries between the trust and the consumer as well weli as the trust itself The readiest and least Injurious injurious In- In jurious way of ot bringing meat s s in inthe Inthe inthe the United States down to the natural level would be the thc removal of ot the high protective duties which makes maltes possible the operations of the meat meal trust n |