Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-02
COST OF LIVING THEN AND NOW, FULL DINNER PAIL ONLY A MYTH,
 LOOK UP YOUR STORE BOOKS.
Compare What it Cost You Live Several Years Ago With What it Costs Now-Are You Going to Continue to Put Fur Overcoats the Trust Magnates While You Must be Content With Reefer ?-Atend the Dem ocratc Rally To-Morrow Night and be Enlightened.

A AS uSAoSldCS VIII uOlu q EOuSltiS rally in the Auditorium tomorrow
 night. The committee in charge ex- poets to see crowded house. The political situation is getting quite in-
 teresting in Waterbury, so much so that the republicans, who some time ago pretended that they were out of the woods, have become very uneasy and are now willing to admit that there is likelihood of Waterbury going democratic. This is a tremendous ad- mission from people who want every thing in sight whether the folks care to give it to them or not, and ought to inspire doubting Thomases in the democratic camp with hope. A good hardshell republican who has listened to all the speakers that have come here during the present campaign ana also reads the papers, says that the strongest argument made in favor of change appeared in the editorial de- partment a couple of weks ago when attention was called to the cost of liv. ing at the present time compared with that of eight years ago. 1t prompted him to investigate and using his store books as a guide he spent one evening figuring, with the result that he is now much wiser for the little effort. Blight years ago, about two weeks before election, he bought barrel of fouf for $3.S5. Yesterday he noticed that the barrel of flour delivered at his house is down on the book at $7.5O, and the clerk informed his wife that his employer would expect an empty barrel in exchange for the one he was leaving, if not 15 cents more would be added to the price, bringing the price up to $7.65, just $3.SO in excess of what it cost him eight years ago. But he didn't stop at that. He figured up the cost of things bought at the store for the months of August, September and October at that time and com pared these with the past three months Of the current year and found that they cost him $29.86 more than when Mckinley was running for office in 1896, the difference in October of the present year being $11 over the cor responding month of eight years ago. He has the same number of persons in his family and he figured on exactly the same. kind and quantity of articles for the two months in the different years. His wage scale has not been changed, but his taxes are SIS higher, one of his girls is working for less, and boy who made $10 a week gets $9 week now at the same job. He wants somebody to inform him why he should be expected to throw his hat in the air and shout for con- tinuance in power of the party that has .'helped'' him in that way. He said he didn't make any comparisons in the price of wearing apparel, but took his wife's word for it that she cannot do as well with $5 bill now as she could few years ago. The gentleman who furnished these figures is a good republican, and his father before him was member of the same party. He didn't say that he had made LID his mind to vote for change, but it is safe to state that if every other elector votes his way Roosevelt won't be in it in Waterbury. Why not? His case is similar to that of every other working man in town and it would be unreasonable to conclude that majority of the voters in an in telligent community like this could be so blind to their own interests as to force themselves to the wall for the sole purpose of giving a handful of politicians an opportunity to continue to live on the fat of the land. With these facts, and they are facts that can be slbstantiated by reference to the relative cost of, living now and eight years ago in every home, is it any wonder that the republicans are very much alarmed and suspect that 1t will be an uphill job to fool majority or the electors of Waterbury?