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Show I UNSETTLING INFLUENCES. Have we reached the peak of high prices, or is there to be a lull and then another boosting of the cost of everything? Railroad rates advance sharply on August 25, which is next Wednesday, and with the higher freight charges will come the ex-mse, ex-mse, if not the necessity, for the marking up of goods. Already notice is being given 1 bat coal will go higher. There would be a very restless public, if once more prices began to climb to dizzy heights With the higher costs would have to come a readjustment of wages, and strife would break out wherever the laborer felt he was not being equitably dealt with. Yesterday the express company made application for a further increase of 15 per cent in express rates, after having been granted an increase of 12'j last week. The country, evidently, is again to be treated to more than one disturbing influence before there is the stability in business and industry which has been hoped for and long expected. |