Show IF ALt nOSE There Thero would be no just complaInt against hIgh prices if IC nil all commodities imd and all services had risen and In n a somewhat uniform ratio The real trouble Is that thal man many values ly b those of oC service have not ad advanced meed at nil all Wealth consists neither In high prices nor In low prices but in plenty H all prIces are 1110 high or if IC all prices are arc low the result Is uniformity anti and ma may signify either r plenty or scarcity either good times or had bad The general level of oC prices has no relation In particular to the prosperity of oC any people or to the rate of oC financial pro gross In an any country countr Toda Today the high prices are arc not as some loosely assort universal and 1 it iti Is i just because the they are arc not universal that their burden Is felt The real sufferers under tinder present conditions are who have been unable to advance the prices of oC their goods or personal services to correspond with the tho general level Tho They constitute the classes whose stipends are arc fixed bY others and re regUlated regulated large largely I b by past standards and outgrown conditions This class the tho Cincinnati Inquirer points out compresses clergymen teachers clerks and every everybody everybody body the tho country over who work for fora a sa salary lat which Is fixed b by their em employers As a rule they have havo had no Increase The he Government clerks at Washington all but R a few ow of whoso whose average pay Is i from 1000 to 1200 a year are all il ii illustration I of oC prevailing conditions 1814 and amI has haI Their pay was fixed JIL In never been changed though the cost of oC living has at doubled Con I press rC In that time more than doubled Its own on compensation and all the higher officers lIa imy has hIlS been beon put I up Such a condition of things can cannot cannot not continue says the Inquirer We do not know about thaL hat It has continued up to the time I only by a more or less con constant slant stant stream of oC from the ye vo vocations just mentioned Younger less able less experienced I persons take the places of oC the dis disgusted disgusted gusted professIonals or journeymen In these occupations ns and the mechanism of oC industry goes on much as usual I the difference being merely a lower lowerIng lowering Ing of oC the tho general scale of oC efficiency In the branches enumerated above On the tho other hand people who can fix the tho price of the tho commodities tho they sell Boll or the tho services they render like all carriers and professional mon men as the cost of oC living goes goe up are able ablo to advance their charges charge correspondinglY and do nol hesitate to do so This Is true truo also to lo II a largo large degree of wage earners who by combining have been beon able from time to time to add to their Incomes It Is true of oC builders plumbers II team steam gas cas and electric fitters and others engaged In any branch of building construction wherever the country Is growIng most rapidly and still the tho question Is what are aro the chief sufferers In this unequal contest going to do about It |