Show The lime Km Era of High Prices France Is making the tIme complaint that the he cost cot of living has lias increased beyond reason cason It I was at first frt confined l to populous localities but has no now become be- be come ome general general Probably its Ite I effects are arc brought to general attention more prominently In France than in other othel nations because the time two wo classes that are ame re most mol radically pinched by it the it-the the I-the tho wage vage earners and amid the people of or small smal fixed Incomes incomes constitute Incomes constitute large and positive classes in French politics I Nevertheless the conditions of or which France complains are arc general The of ot Is world world- average crase a advance prices worl- worl wide In the United States the bulk of f the people find their wages or gains Increased In equal proportion to the enhancement of or prices But Dut those whoso whose Incomes are fixed and the producers producers pro- pro whoso shoso commodities have not advanced In proportion to the general appreciation find this result o of prosperity prosperity pros pros- a decided drawback It Is generally and probably correctly correct- correct ly y I adjudged that the tile chief cause cuse of or orthe the he advance Is really real a depreciation In Inho inthe ho tho price of oC gold sold due to Ha its great greatly enlarged production Trade e ions have taken advantage e of ot th the circumstances tons no doubt But If tho the trusts rusts were the single le great cause the enhancement should hould be confined V to the he trust staples which is by no means universally the case Activity In trade Is 3 not a cause of ot general enhancement though hough h it may b be attendant on It J. J tho I Vo Yo think It I fairly Indicated that the cause cuse of the time rise In prices is b s the Increase In production of oC gold which leaves leav s the dollar dolar with wih the p pur- pur r- r chasing hasing pow power r measured mN in ol other er corn con commodities materially less than it was 10 0 or 15 years as ago t. t I |