Show I REPUBLICANISM IS BEST nET In Iii the matter matel wage I In increases in- in creases and the relation of earnings earnis earnist t ft o 0 cost of living tho the bureau of oC lail has ha just completed a report which utterly refutes the tho claims made by Democratic writers and orators orators' or that thai the Iho co cost t of living l Is Increasing moro more rapidly than the ot or workmen workmen That there thero has been an Increase of or co cost t of or commodities mainly food rood products during theten the ton ten years Is universally rial admitted Tire Thc Tte Democratic party made mado Its Is campaign 1 ti I In iii 1896 upon tho Issue isue that prices of I food products products products-In in fact all al staples of the farm farm were too low The he Democrate Democrats Demo Demo- crate crts offered as a solution of or the time problem the free freo coinage of or silver lver Time The Republican party offered as a so solution so- so lution luton of or the difficulty the maintenance ance o of the tho gold standard and a re return ro- ro lUn turn to the tho protective tariff policy which had been abandoned In Mr 11 Cleveland's administration The rite prices of or food have ha e Increased The Thc farmers of or the time country countr time the producers of oC the staple products wheat corn cotton coton etc have have reaped a splendid harvest from the thc advancing prices which thc they have havo obtained d during this hits era of general gen gemi- eral erl prosperity Now the time f question eston arises s whether the thc In Increase In cost of living which Is the time natural accompaniment ac nc- ac- ac of or this advance ad In price in of staple fool foods has been met and overcome by hy such an Increase In the earning power of engaged In gainful occupations that the time advances In cost of or food have been no 10 burden hurden upon the limo mn masses cs o of the thc people people The Time mo most t Important table how however ver put forth as a a n result of or this Investigation gation of or wages and the time purchasing I power powe of or a days day's work worl when applied to food Is that covering the entire I period from fromn rom 1899 to 1 1906 1106 06 as compared com coin pared with wih the tIme general generl average of oC wages and prices during all nU tho the period front from 1890 to 1899 Tho rho e essence enco of or orthis this showing 1 Is that hint per pel cent more mOlo persons were employed ell in l 1905 OG that tho the hours of labor per week had been reduced 11 41 11 per cent that lint the time weekly earnings earnings' per Jer Individual had Increased 14 1 per cent while the tho retail price of or food had Increased only onh 1 per pel cent In other oilier words in Iii 1 1905 05 the he wages of oC one hO hour would purchase 58 per cent more food than timan during the period from Crom 1890 to 1899 These are arc the tho stubborn facts furnished fur Cur upon Ulion official authority that lint I serve to confute the he theories us as wellis well is as 8 the time mere merc assertions of time the opponents opponents op op- op- op of the protective system |