Bisbee daily review., 1902-09-19
PROSPERITY
 PUNCTURED
CHAIRMAN GRIGGs SHEDS SOME
 LIGHT FOR WORKING MAN
Wage Farmers Can Buy Less With Their Earnings Than They Could in 18o7-Some Statistics

'' ioSf-S SOHlC StdtiStfCS
 Chairman Griggs of the democ atic congressional committee. who is en- gagged in ba ting the beef and coal trusts as bandonier does bull in the ring before dispatching ii. i-5 is sued statement as to the advance in the prices of the necessaries of life to the workingman which will be hard for the republicans, who have been claiming that the purchasing power of the dollar has increased, to answer. Said Mir. C. iggs:
 The man with a fixed income from wages or salary has been having his income chopped ever since 1897 by the increase in prices. Every man knows whether his iucoue has been increased during the past three or four years. If it has not been increas- ed from 10 to 100 per cent, then he is losing money compared to his condi- tion in 1897 and 1898 and that in 1902.
 Take, for instance, the thirty-sec- ond annual report of the Mas sachusetts bureau of statistics of labor. That is document com piled by good republicans. It shows the purchase power of a dollar for the years 1897 and 1902 on Q number of articles of daily necessity in the do- mestic economy of the average mans home In 1902, a dollar will buy less than in 1897 by the following percent ages:
 Common soap, 1914 per cent less
 Starch, 10h per cent less.
 Roasting beef, 16 2-3 per cent less.
 Soap beef, F 2-3 per cent less.
 Rump steak beef, 8 per cent less.
 Corn beef, per cent less.
 ForeQuarter veal. 23 1-3 per cent.
 Hindquarters, veal 17 per cent less.
 Veal outlets, 111s per cent less.
 ForeQuarter mutton 23 1-3 per cent less.
 Leg mutton, 27 4-5 per cent less
 Fresh pork, 2S 1-5 per cent less
 Salted pork, 25 2-5 per cent less
 Hams, per cent less.
 Shoulders, II per cent less.
 Sausages, 13h per cent less.
 Lard 40b per cent less.
 Butter 201s per cent less.
 Cheese, 12z per cent less.
 Milk 111s per cent less.
 Potatoes 12h per cent less.
 Coal, 10 per cent less.
 Brown sheeting, 351s per cent less.
 Bleached sheeting, 39A per cent less.
 Ticking, 1S1z per cent less.
 House rent, 40 per cent less.
 This report also contains a table of the earnings of the head of a fam fly and their relation to the family ex- penditures. It comprehends the earn ings and expenditures of 152 heads of families. The average weekly wage of IA family heads is shown to be $13.75. In the other thirty-eights cases the average weekly wage amounts to $11.33, the total yearly earnings of the head average for the 152 families $594 In twenty-one in- stances the earnings of the head ex- ceeded the amount expended. In four-fifths of the entire number the earnings of the head were insufficient to meet the family expenditures"
 Workman Presents the Case Mir Griggs also made public . let ter he had received from William Carmack, a well known coal miner at Fayette, Fayette county, w: Va, who Is vouched for by c. W. Orenton of w. Va. a member of he democratic committee. In this letter MT. Carmack says that, while his wages are 20 per cent higher, the cost of everything he has had to pur- chase has gone far beyond that pro . portion. He furnishes Q table as to he prices prevailing in 1898 and in . L903: . Articles In 1893 In 19Ol . Bacon, 8 Is cents per ID .....$ .16 2-3 Bank oil. 5.8 cents per gal. -. .08 Powder, $1.20 per keg ....... 2.z6 Flour $3.50 per bbl ... ..... 700 Beef, 1-3 per ID ........... .1S 3ranulated sugar, 6kc per ID 10 .