Show q C CAUSE tJ OF ADVANCED PRICES The Democratic congressional committee al ai appointed ap- ap pointed to investigate is iste te and andreport report on high prices 4 l lia made its report It it finds fi ds that th t the increased volume of gold goll has had its effect the trusts have c ha IDd more moc to do with it h t he chief enemy is the protective o i tariff We Yc expected that w would uld be bc th tb thi the i outcome The rhe tariff is the the- chronic disease of the theD D Democracy moc ac and has has b been eu for Jor more mOle than three score years ca and ten teti It is evidently incurable w with them It is their sleeping sickness And it is for them to believe believe- beli that with the lion of the tariff prices wo would fall They alwa always 8 h ve for the simple rc reason son that lust a few months of f free trade have lR e always alwa H the lie country of money that hat it has boon r reduced nearer and near nearer r the thc tl e Chinese level leel That Thit 1 is the only secret of it UI hJ It I r C t 11 I and ahiL unskilled lle labor laborers t who wIlo can find nothing to do who have u vc often been to eating the free ft sOup sOupo o o 0 charity charit have so increased that four years calS of the 4 have always been sufficient to retire th the e party pally until i l a new generation of of have ha grown up We V believe the thc increased volume o of I gold god ha has has' had a little to do with the advance in prices but hut not er very much for there thero has not been much increase It has be been n sent away about as fast as it t has accumulated The trusts great and an small have lavo been the most pronounced cause We Ve have in iii this valley among tho the farmers sonic some of the most expert clumsy grafters to be found any any- any any- where We Ve V have hav had many exhibitions of their deftness For instance some years ago the city council of this city wanted the waters of or Parle Parleys Parley's s 's creek ercek for use in the lh city and agreed to give these farmers the amount Hn due them thoin in Utah lake water This was agreed to but a day in June was fixed upon upon up up- on to measure measure the cre creek k It was when the tho creek was vas at its highest If we remember aright the thu farmers farmers' were entitled to third one of the creek after the irrigating seaon season season sea sea- water But in in September September after son on was practically over OV r the farmers demanded their Weir full quota though it was more than all the water in the creek at the time amounted to and when it could not be supplied sued the thc city eity obtained ob oh a heavy heay judgment and a d collected it The only e the city enjoyed was that some of them had aad so flooded their lands that the alkali came to the he surface and they have not been able to raise half a crop since In the same way they worked the smelting the valley companies until many of them quit This year ear the thc same experts are working this city on n their vegetables It is admitted that the potato but the price prices Clo is and of fine quality i s 30 cents a peck which is a bushel which is s 40 per ton lon or on average land an acre on In Inland and land is not forth half of per pur acre cre in inthe he the market That is they are are simply holdups anti the lie grocery men say that they can supply families with Idaho potatoes cheaper than they can ean pota- pota potatoes toes oes grown in this valley aIlcy The rhe chief rise in food prices ices is due principally to the t e. e thieving combines t men in the cities In Utah the thc combine has extended to the farmers and they take to the game gameS as is S to mothers mother's milk |