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Show K ' After getting into power on a promise to re- B ,, duco tho high cost of living, tho democratic ad- B ' i ministration finds itself forced to publish stntis- B ' v tics it has collected proving that retail prices in Bl 191'j wcru on nn nvcrngo, 2 per cent higher than B , in 1013. Everybody knew that prices were H u' ' higher and many people will bo ready to believe H , , v , that 2 per cent increase is a low estimate. Even H V j a 2 per cent increnso means much to those Amcr- H t . '' 1 ' fcin workmen who lost their jobs becnuso a dem- K,, i.' ocratlc tariff threw our markots open to the B J q j products of workmen in Europo nnd Asia. |