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Show It Cost of Living Outsrlpo Incomes. Washington. "Tho cost of living is uitstrlpplng wages nnd incomes. That firings want and misery to largo Hum- I hers of families. It means that women ) and children are not getting proper I food and clothing, and that children i: cannot bo sent to school and get either an education or the foundation i of an education, and that means our civilization is being injured." These aro tho views of Senator Btophon B. Elkins of West Virginia, , ohairman of tho senate comnuueo on t Interstate Senator Elkins has Intro duced a resolution for an Investiga- Hon into tho question of Increased prices of tho necessities of life and Iho cost therefor slnco 1900. |