The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-10-10

$3.50 1m1zsszazszzzazs
lof what DAYS work will buy 10 ths
market, there Is grave doubt that w
may correctly asctibe 10 the present
the tern. universal prosperity, not,
withstaDdins labor Is scarce appar.
ents IN every department of indus.
trial activity.
/. IL Is not the wall OF the pesSimisr
To complain thus, IL Is the nniver-
sal wall. heard on every hand, and,
too, from people who heretofore never
have been compelled to worry over
"msking The ends meet. .
| Some results must he shown ia con
crete form. There must te a lessen-
ins OF the disparity between wages
and expenses of living. The people
soan will become FESTIVE under the
imposition OF unjust burdens by
plet horie separations which enaifoI
largely the things which men ano
women aud children eat ana wear.
The DAY must not he Too TAR distant
when people may hny meats al lower
prices. They will not continue much
longer to endure the excessive cost
which is..caused 10 large part by
the exactioas III trusts Relief must
bc afforded aiong this line relief
must not lr too long deferred.
The uiher day In Chicago, the meat
trus, advanced the wholesale price Of
alt classes oi cuts 10 cents
pound. on course, every retail deal
er had 10 advance prices ium to q
cents, because increase In the whole.
sale price must be met with larger
increase by the transaction. The
advance In Chicago was only the sig.
nal rof like advances throughout the
entire east,
There must sometimes be limit
se. TO these increases. Perhaps, tho
masses soon will refuse to Withstand
this pressure on their pocketbooks.
| To the extent, therefore, that de.
mand for revision OF the tarin shall
become a leading issue tn the eoming
campaign viii The influence OF rresl.
dent Roosevelt be lesscned, nfr IL has
been noticed that for some reason
the president has never spoken on The
tafitf. since he started on tbs cam.
paign journey as sice-presidential
candidate and abandoned his tarlff
utterances ~ indianapolis In lsuo.
Mr., Roosevelt has become the expon.
ent Of railroad reform. lie has not
become the apostle OF relief from too
high tariir duties. II tim tariti be.
come the campaign cry next year, II
may he that some other republican
may wrest the baton OF authority
| from Mr.. Roosevelt; such result II
not unthinkable To close observers OF
current events.
Secretary TAFT lust now Is slightly
eiouded as a tariIf revision advocate.
since his recent address counsalling
post poning il To sonic failure date.
However, he lis u taiiff resisionlst at
heart and probably the people kno.
IL.
On the issue OF the tariff, there.
lore, II would he easily possible Tor
Governor Hughes ~ step forth IN a
day as the controller Of the New
York delegation, and II IL ditilcult "a
see how anyone or any faction Of 70.
publican politicians In that state
could west the vantage ground from
him.
Indeed. IL was freely admitted bs
the strongest TAFT people In New
York state that Governor Hughes
could have that delegation were he
to tell the people he wanted IL. Nc
that Hughes becomes the unknown
Quantity In tie republican pfesiden'
rial situation lie In the one obstacle
In the way OF Secretary Taft, Win
otherwise would be the winner DO,
yond shadow OF doubt. even natwith
standing the opposition Of the orRan'
ixea labor forces OF the country.