Show High Prices Mean I II I More Prosperity I I Syracuse S N Y V March 19 The I economic problem that lint now faces lacos the th country countr together with questions that confront tho the municipality of the tho city I of which he lie is major were ere consider considered ed cel in a trenchant tr speech by Mayor Gaynor of or New York before the tho Syra Srn Syracuse cuse chamber of or commerce tonight Mayor Gaynor expressed the opinion opinion ion that only city cit cIty Issues should be hue considered In city cH elections saying Tho rho mayor maor next entered upon a die dis discussion of high prices and their causes I The general geneal run lun of or people he lIe said Bald w re never bottom bettor fed clothed and anul houses than today The subject of high prices price seems to 0 be engross engrossing ing In the mind oi of tho very able man who is IR now president of or the United States Slates and he Is entitled to the tile good goodw goodwill w will ill and assistance of us UR all In reach reaching reachIng ing log the conclusion If the cause tf of f present high prices be he natural and normal nothing Is to bo ho feared there from flora High prices are hy by h no means manila always an evil eIl while low prices often orten a ic High prices produced by b artificial I means by b monopolies dont mean menn good limes they are arc injurious to lo the community Now ow lot let l l us not riot run run away with that thai word woid old monopoly cither elthel I IliRe use liRe it Jt In Its strict and sense A monopoly can bo be created and maintained only by hy favoritism o of if government or law Ill This Is 18 the dell deli definition of a monopoly The only mo monopolies we have in this country seoul seem to bo ho those which have been built up and are aro maintained by h unlawful fa favoritism a 1 in wholesale s le freight rates I Iby by neglect or 01 toleration of govern government ment Such Sueh favoritism in freight rates Is the great crime of our day 1 anti and generation But Bul while present high bight prices are aI higher than they thoy would be bc except for there is Ii another great groat cause causo for lor them Ih m namely the production production tion of gold l 1 ct l us tue do all we can to do away aWn with high prices to tho the extent that they ther are nrc caused by monopolies hut lot hot use bo be assured that we wo cannot do away with them to the extent that they are aro caused by b an Increasing gold production Nor or are arc they an anevil anevil evil to the tho they the aro are produced th |