Show rJ r- r r GET RIOH J r r. r fj The wholesale paper aper houses louses from which the merchants buy w t. t their h ir wrapping paper and from which the theP printers buy their printing print- print i r ing lug paper have long been suspected of being able to arrive at a working work l g agreement whenever the wind happens to be blowing C m in the right dIr direction On the fifteenth of last month by what fis I's Is ms S to be an Il iron-clad iron agreement these paper paper houses announced y an arbitrary increase increase of 10 per per cent cent in in the price of every grade and andi i iv kind kind ind of paper A wholesale paper house like the Graham Paper for example is said said to to have cle cleaned ned up a net profit of more than by this this' simple trick Of course other S r. r r 1 a N t wholesale dealers have netted as much in proportion to the extent ff of stock which they carry In announcing this increase this increase in the price of paper the whole whole- i Q Balers salers rs a and Jobbers have stated that th the mills are a about out to raise their prices but we cannot see how this raise should af af- i I feet the price of the paper which the wholesalers have had had in Cv stock We Ve are not surprised however at anything that happens I in our modern commercial dealings It is an age of rich quick 4 schemes and the men who clamp down the thumb screws most s t mercilessly are the ones who can take the most joy rides even it r. r though their action brings the sweat to the brow of the ultimate y 0 consumer t And while the general advance is fixed at about 10 percent percent percent per- per cent cent cent in all the notices from the paper houses we expect to find 1 it t at least 15 per-cent per when we contemplate o our r monthly supply V bills A 10 per-cent per increase in the cost of the most costly article y Y handled in this office means a difference of many dollars in twelve months months' time but we will have bave to follow directions and take it t f In this connection we are reminded of the fact that a few Jt 7 1 T s tea y yB weeks ago we found it necessary to send to Omaha for some supplies supplies sup sup- r plies in order to keep our paper as nearly up-to-date up as possible r 4 The cost of the supplies was and the express express' charges were 1 60 while the telegram cost GO 60 cents cents- cents in in n the West Vest all things come ome high Experiences such as these hese convince us that we should B Bv 1 v develop our local resources If like our highly developed sugar fa industry these local products did not bring down the price of the 1 m manufactured articles in this state we might at least hope that 1 the they would save express charges and in ill that way alienate our af aj- aft affections t for the parcels post v |