St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-07

Total. ......... ...............-.. $50
Balance. .......-........- ........ 80
Deduct from this cash balance the IS
q month increase in the price of food
and his cash balance which is used to
guard against doctors bills. pay INSTALL
mentS on land purchased and the extra
expenses of life is reduced to SOD, total
loss for the seven winter months of S5G
"a considerable sum to a man working
Oh a salary. Then consider the effect
On the man working for $3.50 per day,
or $40 month. He must do without or
be dishonest and purchase where he
cannot afford.
so that after all furry in wheat is a
mixed blessing, and a European war
might cost US more than we make. The
ways of peace afford the surest road to
prosperity, and wheat gambling rObs
more poor people than it benefits. The
farmer gets more for his wheat: the
labOreT, the mechanic of humble means,
the middle classes pay more for food
and save less.
Flour, bread, pork, eggs, butter, pOul-
try, all products of the cereals, are to-
uay higher than they were a year ago.
The slightest hint from Europe will i'm
mediately advance the price of the
other necesSaries, and proud America
''ohe granary''-
BE FORCED
to charge her own citizens an advanced
price for the products of her own cline.
Some Of the st. Paul merchants talked
freely to the GLOBE last week of the
situation. AT Michaud Brothers it was
said:
The general line of retail groceries
with the exception OF the cereals is
Of Loo
The canned fruits are better and cheap
er; so with peaches and apples; and
other vegetables also. Crops in these
lines have been above the average. Still
a European war, such as is expected,
would force prices up at once. The
country would be feeding two mouths
then, and it would take more money to
do it. The principle of an advance
would be Just the same as with a man
supporting one person being suddenly
called on TO support two. 1t would cost
more. But at present retail groceries
are at low rates"
Canned goods with the poor are in
great demand. Any improvement in
their quality as noted above and reduc-
ton in price is to them an advantage.
Louis Eisenmenger, the veteran butcher,
said.
IL
been. From fair to good steaks range
from 10@1Sc; the supply is good and
a raise not to be expected until after
New Years. Mutton is scarce and
quoted at 1215c; veal, 7011Ic; pork
high, quoted at z 1Ic; chickens, dressed,
I5c per ID. The pOOr-Oh. they take
the inferior meats at much lower prices.
These are the figures of a standard
market. Suburban shops, where trade
is less, quote still higher: Round steaks,
12c;a mutton, 15c; chickens, IG(0l7c.
Although the Chicago bakers. owing to
the advance in flour, have ordered bread
up2 cents, the Bakers union of st.
Paul have made no such advance. In
dividual bakers mot members of the
uniOn) have made the 2 cent advance,
and loaves sold formerly at 8, and s
cents, now cost 5. Z and 10 cent. Tramm
d Engle say:
1.-The union has ordered no raise vet.
but there ought to be. Flour has gone
up aud it costs considerable more to
make bread"
In the fuel way, Lorig brothers ex-
plain the situation as follows:
The cuTrant quotations are:
Int fcfn n NM Qn nr