Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-06-02
NO WAR PRICES IN VIEW.
Recent Advances on Some
Things Due to Other Causes.
OPINIONS OF LEADING DEALERS.

1aG ana CUBAN rlass
nes Are the Dearest Things In the Market
Q a
id. Among the important questions which
es- people are asking just now is whether
he the war with Spain is going to help
'se business or hurt it and whether the
cost OF living will be materially In
p. creased through the same causes. 1t is
a fact that a great many Of the things
used in the household have become
in dearer in the last few days, and this
IN has led retail dealers to suppose that
to the war was going to advance prices
still more. Many housekeepers are al.
n ready frightened at the prospect of a
10 return of such prices as existed during
10 the civil war and for years following
n it.
l. Inquiries among representative deal.
ers IL the wants Of the household, made
r IN New York recently, would seem to
q indicate that any alarm of this sort was
o without foundation, although there can
be little doubt that the prices of some
things have advanced, to stay at least
for a time, and that these prices and
some others may be still further ad-
vanced a few points. All of these men,
, however, agree that the advances with
few exceptions have little or no connec-
tlon with the war or apprehensions as
to Its result, but are the result Of natu-
raj causes and would have taken place
whether we had gone to war or not.
Some OF the advances in price are, in
TACT, an indication of an improvement
IN the general condition of trade. and
nave come with increases in the value
OF the productions of our own country. {
which should be a matter of congratu.
lation rather than alarm. This il true t
OF the higher price for -four, and with c
mat an increase in the market price of {
al! OF the cereal products. +
Inc conditions which produced the II
war prices of 1868 are not likely soon to d
De repeated in the United States, and it a
Is not probable that anything like them e.
would be repeated even if the war Is
with Spain were to last for an indefi. g'
nlee time. In those days when -four m
Went to $14 a barrel the north was &c
maintaining in the field an army of gf
l,oO0, 900 ablebodied men, who had ce
been withdrawn from their ordinary CO
occupations, producing food stuffs and G.
a. inc other articles of common use, ST.
we were waging a war in our own al
country in which the ordinary opera. cal
lions IN the field often involved enor.
NOUS losses and the destruction of food
ano equipments even beyond the ordi. ~.
nary needs of the army. Besides this W.
the credit Of our nation was So imna;r. ye'
that our bonds and hence our curren. M ,n
~ were deprecated until the dollar in van
Wnlch we reckoned prices was worth in a. A.
markets IF the world only abont az
'ne-third of its face value. This fact ~ par
tself would have made prices advance uay
10 three times their normal level and pop
. Is significant fact that during even W. WY
darkest period Of the war most Of 80.
ne staple articles of use did not ad. peol
ance at all in price when their valna o1ei
vas reckoned by the gold value Of the Urea
orrency. The Spanish are already suf. Poi'
from such causes both in Cnha ~ III
I'd at home, and they are likely soon .en zen,
see prices go almost out of sight. nv tle,l
inc southern Confederacy; but the l.al :
nlteo States is in no such danger on II
Inc taking away of 100, 600 or aoo . lew
" men to war is not likely to inter. -. al
re IN any serious degree with the nro. p!Ite
'o' I'VE capacity OF our country of TO-. u nn'
o'ooo people, nor is their mainte. "u"
nce' even IN these expensive DAYS of
'i1are' likely to impair the credit Of Til
. government a particle. Still we emily
an probably have "war prices'' To- a torn
tam extent, just as the prices Of cer. crow,
Il imported goods have advanced with after
imposition of higher tariff dnties a vic
. government has got to have a lar. aroun
49, ~ ~ meet the direct cost Of value
: ana TO pay interest upon the bonds At
IGN may he issued, and in whatevor on an
- us ~ raised it will add some. die of
- w 'ne cost OF the things which mildn
LIZ ~ the household. When throw
70 now pelhg considered by con- young
pecones a law, we shall know Az. but he
y wnaC articles will be increased in made
o through this war measure. nearly
nen' a month ago, it became near dow.
.l1aln mat there would be war a grew '
y many retail dealers t%hrougbout the fro
country, and especially in the south in the
1ea INA prices would go M, and ened te
mh;1 loni advanced their prices at the tn
VINE at the same time buyinp ne1v ~"sassef
duonsa W reap the advantage of passene
ad""" ~ our own markets prices do it as
has on d great many things. waited,
nas gone up about a cent a pound when Ii
no!esale, and retailers have nd But +
~ 11s price considerably more than car sta.
rotatoes are selling for 50. so to never c
oarfeI as against about 81 less a that one
= Apples are dear, and thera up to m
10 s.1sn' ADVANCE in the price any but
,n,a. uu.ncer or groceries. Among That
, ,rhe eu1atlVes OF the great meat New 70
> VINO We're seen recently 1t was
eu 'nae the advance in the price
~ oeeI was not due in any wav ~ From
~ in Yum;
el' said one of these men. cal. to us. I'll
goes up about the same amormt strong 8,
" 'ne year, and there has exclaime
- advance in the price of other "they ha
Canned and corned meats ground f,
-, nave been affected in nrice bad, but
likeiy to be higher. This nav undergror
put the price of fresh meats ~ We gave
oy sympathy. 1t is not onr wan walton: :.
that has affected tho nr;,o lent in
Gu ana corned meat. Ever sinco haven't b
70 80 ~ ohlna began the gov. do and bl
70, u Europe have been BUYING can."-N
~ large Quantities of these prod.
It Was Only III. m, He-W
usn' awkward handed Lanca. Do vnr -
"aa broken III by a beneyolent back ~ % .
~ trled to do q good tnrn ~ O. " W