Show High Cost of Living A Bar To Progress II favor or those communities where L I they feel t that they can do clo the best for them them- selves Were ere conditions in their home states ideal for them they ther would not seek cek a change from the location that finds them surrounded with friends and Ci e mal and in touch with a local feeling and sentiment which they understand and of whose sym sym- the they may always feel confident without any expression If their material prospects were what the they 7 desired if their avocation a brought them in such profit as sufficed there would be no occasion for for them to change Consequently the virgin land laud landof landof of the United States would woul remain undeveloped because because because be be- cause settlers would not forsake tho the beaten paths where they were well satisfied and where the future held nothing to astonish or injure them Therefore the community that hopes for home home- seekers seeker'S and investors that depends upon the in infusion infusion in- in infusion fusion of new hew blood to raise the standard of its business prosperity and its commercial a advantages must have something attractive to offer something better than can be found in the surroundings with which the has become familiar by reason of long association Material l inducements are the chief magnets for settlers et tIers the sort of citizen that a 3 community desires however er will take into consideration consideration consider consider- the means of education of winch which his children can avail a themselves es and will also cast a vv ather eath r reve eve towards the flit climate But li hp first the o opportunity to make a ai living i g- g gf f for l l himself i and l hi his family and something more to place in a savings Sa bank or a good outside investment against the time when the cold enters his bones and 1 the days arrive when he shall say I find no pleasure in them Concerning climate and educational advantages refining influences pleasant environment Salt Lake need not Dot suffuse its face with the blush of shame shamo nor need it prepare any my apology To ro all these advantages advantages ad however it must be able to offer the home- home seeker material I prosperity We Ye believe that this city can tan do so at tho present time but hilt it can do it much more surely when the tile cost of living has been reduced where it ought to be and ana as it will have hare to lIe be The TIle installation of a public market by the lie new administration a market which opens at an hour bour convenient for the tile producer and the consumer under under under un un- un- un der rigid official inspection open six days each week eek will aid greatly to solve the high cost of living by the of the middleman the leech that fastens himself upon producer and consumer alike and gorges himself with the profits that accrue thereby The national administration is giving a groat deal of thought to tho the middleman President Taft lays much of the cause for the high cost of living lhing at thedoor thedoor the thedoor door of the middleman Secretary Wilson of the department department department de de- de- de of agriculture feels feels' equally certain that the producer would get a wider margin of profit and the consumer pay a great deal less if the middleman middleman middle middle- man were were eliminated and Dr Wiley chief chemist of the department and sponsor of th the poison squad grows eloquent in describing the woes which the man who grows the produce and the man who consumes it can unite in laying at the door of the individual who buys from one and sells sens to the other It is possible that the federal government can cando cando do nothing President Taft is said to be convinced of his lack of power to act But local authorities can do so and the most effective blow which could be struck in Salt Lake would woul 1 be he to establish a cily city market where the farmer and the housewife can interchange interchange in interchange in- in commodities the commodities the producer disposing of his wares and tand the housewife of her money moncy both finding profit in the transaction a remarkable improvement im im- irn- irn provement pro over o the present order of things t JI-t t- t f. f |