The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-18
THE cosr or LIVING.


IT IS MUCH to be doubted if the ''full
1 dinner pal" argument viii be used
by the Republican party I'm the next
national campaign. The dinner pail
/ does not contain as much today as it
/ contained a few years ago. for the good
7 and sufficient reason that while men
nave been thrown out of work ina q
great many places throughout the
nation, the cost of everything they
must have IS increasing, rather than
/ decreasing. Between the first Of May.
1891, and the first Of 8Iay. 1884, the
prices Of necessaries have increased
more than 40 per cent
Dun's index numbers show an m
I crease from 52:455 i'm 1897 to $l02.20S in
1904 These index numbers cover
wide range and include practically
/ every commodity I'm common household
use. on the wage question nobody
denies that the average of wages IS
/ higher now than I'm 1897, but the aver
/ age is lower today than it was year
/ ago. though the cost Of necessaries con-
+ unues, as has been seen, to increase
/ The Republicans have failed i'm their
! professed determine ton to keep the
! dinner pail fun
II the country is TO be prosperous
4 men must be generally employed and
7 at wages i'm proportion to the price of
( things they must have. High prices
! do not indicate prosperity. If one man
/ should run a corner on wheat and force
/ the price up to 81 a bushel the country
/ would not be any better off. Indeed,
I It would be much worse off, because 81
/ wheat would mean very dear bread.
: And no country can be prosperous
/ when the necessities are all but beyond
/ the reach OF the people
The Republicans claim they produced
/ the prosperity the country enjoyed last
year and the year before Then by
: the same token. they should have con-
/ uuued that prosperity i'm fun force and
/ effect. The fact that this is "a presideu-
tial year does not entirely account for
Z the depression which prevails i'm most
of the important business and financial
ceuters. IT IS said that money was
never So hard 10 get for legitimate en-
/ terprises, while factories and mills are
being closed on every hand.
Now Secretary CortelyOu is being
! talked of for chairman of the BepubH-
can national committee. Mr.. CorteIyou
is said To have stood very close to
. President Mckinley and Senator
Hanna. III is difficult TO see. however,
. how his close acquaintance with those
dead Statesmen viii help him m the
management of a Roosevelt campaign.
/ Neither Mckinley nor Hanna liked
I Roosevelt even a little bit.
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That Illinois Republican convention
meht to produce Democratic gov
/ eru0r. The adhereuts OF the men who
are sure to be beaten should be able 60
! give the victorious candidate for the
/ nomination q mighty Interesting time
+ between noI and November That is,
provided a nomination is made before
/ election day
An aged English countess has
startled society across the water By
marrying her coachman, Every body
seems to think the coachman has the
/ better Of the bargain. but We desire 10
+ express a doubt You see the countess
may live FOR year or two yet
Now that the Ham Show" is over
the uspaper men VINO have been
I busy with it win have time 20 attend
+ 60 the business TOT which they draw
salaries.
The common stock OF the Steel trust
is now quoted at s. This viii surprise
some people who thought that stock
was being used for wall paper By those
who could and nothing better
The governments New York assaE
( office has ran out OF gold bars. The
. supply Of gold bricks IS, however, as
plentiful as usual i'm Wall street and
elsewhere about the metropolis.
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Chicago must raise s6500090 rght
. assay se settle some legai judgments
= Tbe big loHu q n such dire STRAITS
faaI he els haii ae turned .nie
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