Show I Cost of Living I SOME of our Democratic friends are disposed to quarrel with Mr lr Taft over his admission that he is able to formulate a national policy that will reduce the tho present high nigh cost of living It may appeal appeal ap ap- peal to the Democracy as a n campaign dodge as an amplification of which they could point out to the country that the Republican administration has done nothing to ameliorate conditions from that standpoint The sober good sense of the American people however will render any such argument in in- in- in effective So many conspicuous examples have been shown of articles on the free list on which h the retail price is steadily advancing and of commodities commodities com coin highly protected the prices of which have been lowered that any argument that the tariff pla plays PIny s 's s its part in grinding down the tho wage earner carner is regarded as fallacious The President and tho the administration charge the constantly increasing cost of living up to the thc middleman they declare a desire to punish him I but protest their inability to find any power lodged in the federal government to interfere with him Indeed it would be queer reasoning that would hold either the tariff or the trusts responsible fo for forthe forthe r the present price of meat butter and eggs Situated Situated Situ Situ- Situated as is Salt Lake in the center of a territory y that is producing great quantities of each of these products and dependent in no sense upon any par part t of the United States Europe Asia or Africa the cause for tho the high prices of these commodities must be found elsewhere than in a trust or the tariff The butter trust may affect the price of that I necessity J J. Ogden Armour and his fellow tors may be responsible for the thc high price price of of meat and the blame for the tilt in eg eggs s may be laid atthe at atthe the door of any other than the tho American hen yet the conclusion is inevitable that the middleman must eventually assume the blame blam It may not be within the power of tho federal government government to corral corral corral cor cor- ral the goat of the middleman but tho the local authorities au au authorities ought to be able to do so And when that is done the problem of the constantly increasing high cost of living will be he solved 0 |