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Show GROWING COST OF LIVING. The statistics of production gathered gath-ered by the agricultural department of the government show that the per capita production of all the staple farm products of the country, except sheep, I:, increasing. This being true, how can the growing cost of living be accounted account-ed for? In spite of the greater proportionate pro-portionate supply of wheat and corn and cattle, we are confronted with constantly con-stantly rising prices for bread and meat, says Philadelphia Record. We have more cotton and djarr cotton cloths. The simple explanation of short suppply put forth by the pampered pam-pered monopolies which control the buying and selling of our staples is contradicted by the fact. The alleged scarcity is only an excuse for rapine. How long can we keep on at our pres-, pres-, ent gait of advancing the cost of food and clothing 50 per cent., and rents 28 per cent., while there is only a contemporaneous contem-poraneous offset of 20 per cent. In the form of increased wages? How long before, In our policy of building up monopolies, we shall reach the point when the further development of. the national resources along lines contributing con-tributing to the general prosperity will bi made impossible. |