Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-20
THE COST, OF LIVING.
Increase over Last Year-A Family Man
objects.

The increased demanded Ivy the Amaga.
mated Association for the ensuing year has
brought into greater prominence one of the
reasons urged by the men, viz: The in
creased cost OF living. 1t is not only the
toiler OF the mill who has felt this, though
upon him and upon all labOrerS it falls
with greatest force. The greatest advance
in the cost Of neCesSaricS OF life has made
itself known to every one. 1t is matter
of universal comment and the facts in
relation TO il will he read with interest.
We are now in the middle Of April,
when, as & general thing, food cheapenS;
but this year it has not done 50. Butter is
keeping stittly up to IS cents. when it
should have come down to % Milk brings
) cents per quart, and should be Is. Coffee.
tea and sugar are each 10 per cent. higher
than last year. while potatoes are up out OF
all pro portion. Meats have jumped % per
cent Tough steak now costs Is cents per
pound, instead OF l2l5 last year. Roasts
are Is cents and boiling meats l. cents in
stead of II and 10 respectively. And yes
terday fresh pork took Jump up to Is
cents.
Everything is extremely high and this
makes a vast difference in the cost OF liv
ing. To crown il all, rents have advanced
from 10 to Is per cent All of these things
taken together, makes living cost about 10
per cent more this year than il did last so
that a workmen making $500, this year, can
only live as well as he did on $3.50 last year
This is the strongest point made By the
Amalgamation for the increase in the scale
and in PittSburg where the scale originated
prices are even higher.
An irate householder yesterday gave a
REGISTER commissioner pointer on the
meat market. Said he
why don you pitch into the ordinance
about selling meat?'
What is the matter with it," asked the
man of news
why that ordinance is the cause of the
high price OF meat. The way it is now. 2
country nan bringing meat to market can.
not sell ii in small quantities and the con-
sequence i that the butchers fix up the
price-bull it up, by Jingo,-and get what
they want. If YOU can afford to buy n
quarter of beef or mutton. or a half of 4
quarter, you can buy il from the farmers
outside, and get it cheaper, but the devil OF
it is you can't afford TO do that. Here they
talk about encouraging farmers TO come to
market and then enact such laws a. that
You can't condemn that ordinance too
severely, and every poor man will thank
you"
The law referred to is section % OF the
market ordinance and reads as follows:
NO person attending said market with
meat, and who shall not have rented an in
side stall, shall sell the same by any guam
tity less than quarter cut in two pieces
and every person offending against the
provisions of this section shall forfeit and
pay for every such offense not less than
One or more than ten dollars and the cost
of prosecution. Proriled al,Eays, that the
prohibition in this section contained shall
apply only to those persons who follow the
occupation of butchers and not to those
who attend the market with meats occa.
sionally."
Ii would seem, from this proviso. that
our housekeeping friend is a little off his
bearings.