Show TRACE conditions owing to the conditions prevailing in the world to day the markets of f our own country have been very uno un settled d the question 1 is asked daily what is 13 t the he cause of the advance in price pines in our local stores of so se mini of the necessities of life ija you he have V a weli watched ched the effect of throwing a rock into a placid pool we of have the agitation is 18 great et eat and first at the point where the rock first strikes the v ater but slowly and with absolute certainty certainly the waves spread until the entire body of water 13 disturbed this example illustrates in a simply in pa Y way how any industrial disturbance b c no a matter art r anere commenced 1 iiii I frailly 9 some mine aggree be a mat ter of concern to peo pan pie remote from the plate place where the agitation started we have tested rested secure in the belief that our business blaine later ests eita here cap could ld not be disturbed because we were not actively engaged in th the war this line of reasoning only held good for a compa short time like the casting of a rock into the water the outer edge of the pool remained undisturbed for a time but bat the waves finally came and we a are renow now feeling the effects of the war in our every day dav business the effect was first felt in the sudden advance in the pries price of if taw raw materials the things upon which our manufacturing industries feed keep in mind now that the war is not wholly to blame there would have be been n big advance in many raw kinds of raw materials anyway for several years past business co conditions have been unsettled due liely ll gely to the tariff agitation and government givern mant reg regulation lation of manufacturing and oi of the operations nf 1 0 roada road sete etc during this period of time manufacturers rs have curtailed opera operations ions owing to the unsettled andin cn conditions din and the lack of orders A chang chance hail had to corn com an active demand loi had comm commenced need and prices price of all 11 raw materials were advancing then on top of this came the war and ee coe v line of oe dome domestic tic industry faced new situation N no institution deal in ing it with home trade can by any pa p s ib b lity ty a escape cape b materials Itte nals of all kinli have aivano ed in prie and a are still a alv ansin 4 we might mention a few bar steel has already advanced 67 per cent and the end is not yet bar iron per cent scrap iron iran 45 per cent bill bolts is and no nuts to a of f al all I 1 ki kind nd 85 pe per r cent cant and some lines of hardware cannot be purchased at any price pipe nulls require specifications of sizes lines and quantity before they will eyen quote a price once in beart many Y articles have bv a advanced such as currents raisins and sugar drugs and chemicals chemical have advanced in some cases twenty times their ong original liance price oat baas that lot were are 8 12 1 2 cents are no now costing casting this la is d due as to the fact that most moat of the material ahat these are manufactured from comes train from india and the market foj fair this material is swamped with orders from the war zone le leather a ther and shoes have advanced and future faints orders only accepted at prices then prevailing without fg gone further into detail these are probably sufficient t to ills illis the uncertain aind conditions tums th that at are prevailing at the present time if present conditions are much long er contin continued aed jed it will become more and more difficult to obtain goods and prices will most assuredly go higher now let us took look at the other side of the picture and you will note noretha that every loud cloud has a silver lining the general trend of the market has ha been upward on ever thing the farm er and grow the income la a greater to day than ever before of course courie we are all interested in having the price as high as and ad pacing as little as possible poa siDle for what we buy natural but there has been and the there to nev lr er will be too wide a spread be tween the price of what man has to bev and what he has to sell go back to dour aur boy hood days remember your wages ages of 15 a manto and ad how vou von thought that thai when your earnings reached 30 a month you could save twice as much money later n life you found thet no matter how great your earning capacity our expense a al wava advanced adva nied to a certain proportion of it this is the law of compensation pensa tion and works relentlessly t throughout all the commercial operations of mankind the expense of the producer will increase it will cost him more than for formerly in erly to operate his hia business he be will have to pay more mare for his equipment there is no use u se trying to 10 fool ourselves or hide bids the facts b but u t on an the other hand all that he pro produces duces has advanced in some cases from forty to one hundred per cent and if w we a sill mil farm a few more acres or crowd up our products a little bit all advances in prices can be absorbed and increased profits can be made besides there was never a time lime in the history of our country when the op Dort unities ties were so great for mon man ey ay making on the farm or by the producer as there is right here to day and by cooperation and up to date methods and the adjusting of the wage scale so that all alike may by the abundant markets the increased cost will be absorbed from any war wave that will al be asbed this thia way |