Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-09-21
HIGH COST OF LIVING.

YOU will find TINT il Is the chief reason
or the increase. IL yonr clothing is
more md most OF what you buy
Ioes not wear well don't blame the dry
goods and clothing merchants, for the
tariff tax is the cause OF the high prices
shoddy goods. II your hardware
bill Is higher and the kitchen and other
utensils do not wear as well ms they
used to don't blame the hardware
lie has to buy what the
sell HIM, and the tariff protects
those corporations and allows them to
the prices for their producle.
Ii your rent has been raised don't blame
the landlord. for the tariff has raised the
price OF building materials, so that il
costs nearly 30 per cent more Ia build a
house now than it dii before the pres-
ent tariff law was passed in 1857. II
costs more than it did, aud the
cheaper kind is made OF green lumber
and soon goes to piece, the tariff on
the material that is used i'll its coa-
structioD is the cause Of the advance,
and the attempt to make cheap turn.
iture with dear materials is the cause OF
its poor quality.
The average increased cost OF all the
articles that it takes to keep house is Il
per cent since 1892, the year this
prosperity breeding Dingley law was
nInoa1 1nnns fhn cfoknkn hnnLe ~, kbn
republican leaders.
Housewives who do the marketing for
the family now require nearly half as
much again to provide the food and the
clothing for themselves md the children
az was needed before this trust fostering
tariff law went TITO effect. That is, il
your income wac S2j a week in 1897 it
must now be 1878 t" buy the same
necessities oil the average. Some few
things like tea and coffee have not in.
creased IN price-in fact, those articles
are cheaper, but there is no tariff tax on
them, aud they are about the only things
You can eat, drink or wear TINT are not
taxed and that some trust or combine
does not control and has not raised the
price Of. Tho important question is,
Has your income increased us fast as
your oulgo? That must be answered by
each individual.
Ii you do not like to keep asking your
husband for more money to run the
house you had better talk over the trust
end tariff question with him, and il he
investigates no will SEQ at once tina,
prices have advanced and that you need
nearly half rs much again as you did
in 1897.
Dun's Mercantile agency. that sup.
plies Information abont business sfTaire
to all tho wide awake business men,
keeps n careful account each month OF
the rise and fall Of prices OF all articles
that go into general consumption. The
figures OF that great agency show that
on the average prices have increased
AZ per cent from July, 1897, to July,
1905. You can inquire OF Dun's agents
in any city, and they will tell you so,
or o can go To the library in your
town md Gull for Dun's review. which
Ii published monthly, and see for your.
self. IL Dun's review is not on file ask
for the Statistical Abst ract OF tho Unit.
ed States for 1905, and OIL page $40 you
will find the table OF Dun's index nun.
Der, for the government has adopted il
as an entirely reliable and not TO he
questioned authority on TINT subject.
In tie last column Oh the page mention.
ed you will SEQ the total for each year
the figures given being the average per
capita total cost ui all necessary articles
OF daily consumption for the year,
July, 1897, shows s72, iCG. and 1906
shows sl0l,4G4. Fixing no account OF
odd decimal, THE shove M Increase Of
s33.0li or over 40 per cent, on the s72.i5
which vas the cost In 1891. Since Jan.
uary Of THE year prices have still further
advanced, 50 tia, ON July l the iucrease
was AZ per cent.
II space permitted the details ri this
plundering Of tho American people
through tho protection grated the
trusts in the tariff law could DO given.
But II you arc interested to know more
about il nsk or write to the democratic
candidate for congress- Ia your disir iot
to send yon the three great tariff
speeches Of Hon. John Sharp williams
made IN the house OF representatives
during the Inst session Oi congress, and
you will be surpri 'ed TO lind what n
fund OF evidence aud iDtor nation they
contain ON this important eubjcct 10
the American people. And after Jon
have inU stigatcd the tariff and trust
issue make up Jour mind II IL lie to your
to continue this sysiem Of
protection by taking the advice OF the
republicans to stand pat aud voting 10
r~e.elect republican candidates for con.
yreas, xho have refused to revisa the
.sri6. although mnpy Of them promised
heir constituents 10 do so.-Ex.