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Show IP AM) OUT. Insistent demands for an increase in wagc-3 conl inue to be., made from time to lime, but we fear the people who make them do not stop to count the ultimate cast of their de-v.iands. de-v.iands. Wares and iaUr'e-3 of this country are hit'h now- -'ry high. This h-i-l, coupled with th.! ex-rcs'e ex-rcs'e cost of rsw materials, makes the production of a finished articl; a very expensive proposition. have a iargo foreign trade, because other countries just now must have our goods. But some day not far hence Europe will bo recovering from her war paraiysis, her internal affairs will become adjusted, and she will be producing those same ar'.icles herself. The cost of labor there will be l'Hi'.li le -s than here, and raw materials will probably cost no more. V.'h i that, time conies Europe i will produce these ai'.icles at a cost; far belo.v vats, and the rest of the! world will buy where they can get the goods at tlie lowest prices. 1 Then what will become of extensive exten-sive foreign trade? j Melon- try in i; to boost labor and I ether costs still higher it might be well to think of the after effects. j ii is quite possible to go up in price and out of a job. |