Arizona republican., 1897-09-21

democratic and republican legislation. The following from the St. Louis Republic is an illustration:
 For years Bradstreet's has kept a close record of the prices of about hundred of the principal tommodi- ties in the markets of the United States, making general average for each month.
 ''It Is interesting to note that ever since the election of Mckinley the trend of these prices has been upward. Since the passage of the Dingley bill the advance has been very sharp. The average rise from the 1st of July to the list of September was 6.7 per cent. From March 1 to September it was more than 15 per cent.
 ''In other words, these are incontro- vertible figures which prove that the cost of living to the American people has been increased more than 15 per cent since the republican party came back into power. It is also dncontro- vertfble that nothing has happened 1 to increase the wages of American laborers. This is condition which means suffering and want before the year is out.'
 The Republic displays in the pre- 1 ceding article, either a desire to | grossly misinterpret or a crass ignor- ance There has been an increase in the cost of living, and the people should rejoice that this is so. The 1 rise in the price of agricultural pro- ducts has exerted the greatest in1u- ence over this increase. The tariff duties on articles of immaterial ne- cessity have added but a minute gain. The increased cost has been 15 per cent. So large an increase must have it's rise in the articles or products most extensively used by the people Producing a rise in Ibreadstuffs or in agricultural products will strike the things necessary to the people, and 1 therefore in extensive and general use. The Republic inadvertently credlts the Dingley tariff law with the rise in the price of wheat. and thus the argument of republican news papers is admitted to be true.
 Then the. Republic transg4 gs-es the bounds of sincerity and controverts it's own te1egraphic dispatches by as serting that nothing has happened to increase the wages of American laborers.' The Republics idea of 'incontrovertible" is decidedly uni que. The actual fact is not proof. If it does not harmonize with an imag- ined theory then it is fallacious Any intelligent man who has read the Re public, or any other newspaper. knows that there has occurred the very thing which the Republic claims to mot have happened" When a I man has been out of work three or 1 four years and he once more obtains work at remunerative wages, he feels that there is a decided increase in his i income since even little money is an increase over absolutely nothing. 1 Again, when he is working half time on half wages and then works full l time at full wages, he has obtained a large increase. But that is not all. i Thousands of workmen have receiv- i ed an increase in wages over what ! they usually obtained. There are no l indications of suffering in this coun- try. Whether or not the cost of liy- ing has increased, there lis nothing
 evident but prosperity. Casting
 gloomy predictions is reserved for the calamity howlers who would Tath-
 CT have their pet theories out into
 practice and cause distress and suf
 fering than to have them destroyed
 by the permanent prosperity of the people.