The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-02-22

iNt fltt man 20 be ntarU nom al
4uFln hearings Ia this country Is lhl
4nan who buys the goods When some
=ipdy does try to represent him nc
Generally ls laughed az. Nor his pains
8 What's the usey7 IS M Dllzeh'e pro
esl, when the aavocale Of The con.
*nmer appears Ol let him run
Hown his sneer # the advocate ini
lists that II IS his right 10 say what
D. thinks about dulles which make
Iis nocessarles dearer A recurring
|oln IN the hearings Recently held ID
Washington was cpntemp; Tor the
*uggestlon that lhis 81 that duly made
s q article cost a cent or two more
retail What was = cent to con.
#umorl
81 What W cent 10 q consumer? Are
#htrc considerable number Of peu.
|ls ~ hts country litins on incom 5
III seal thar a rise OF "a cent or two
8 the price Of food ana clothing can
iakc material difference to them
4 Some two years ago Joseph Jacobs
zu5llshed III this magazine study
&llo the condition OF what he called
8lle Middle American IN this arti.
r. be estimated chat there are ful.
n 100000 families Of wage parners
} this country on medium wnge OF
y 1876 a year, sni 50O00O0 farmers
& hose average income Is about S35e
n Year II a certain that there are
H. over @ 1900 families Of The i5s
s. .090 which make ,upiouf wiglfe pp,l
laiion with over $4,000 N year %
We on That IS. The Yast majority
a American families live OF $500 ot
ss year. IN the NEST prosperous
all our industries chat Of iron and
#eel tho Industry which has yielde
w. largest crop OF millionaires and
& hlch has the grentest number o.
#npUyes on salaries oi from sl0,u0t
81 S.J,1O0 q year, the average Sag
1899 was about 500. Ii 1905 i
70 risen 70 about $3.50
|thaf $500 Neas Mean3
a II one would know With something
#ke scientific prttlalon wnai II means
pr a family 20 live on 5000 on less
year in a city Ike New Iefk. f0f
slance, II Ne would realize Che rgla
Don Of a rise OF even a cent IN the
Isl OF 4 necessity TO the comfort
the mulutnds Of WORKING glrm d
Is country on $6 and IS a week, he
#aOuld study Two Investigations re-.
8ntly made iHic the budgets Of thesi
20 classes she grst which has bear
lhhshed Is Louise li4lai More
Study Standards an9 Cost Of i-iY
x IN Sew York city, the second
#hlrh Is giiii Nv manuscripts is ad NJ
silgallnn Of Che standard u Living
selfsupplrllng Women Ava
rom d0mc carried en- bs ihl Nation
8 Consumers League
While d resident IL i New York 30
#al settlement Greenwich House
rs. M0ro undertook 20 satisfy hoe
5 BIT as TO the amount The sources ans
e expenditure OK the incomes af hei
ighhors She Interested 200 fam
: ns sufficiently Ia her scheme 10 pen
lade them 10 keen for her over vary
. ID periods exacl accounts Of eyeat
Nnny earned and apent These bud
to Mrs More nuAiene with sui.
#enl Ato sb9nt the habits ana gei
al caneilluna og the ismily u enabit
reader to interpret them faiflY
j The only portion Of Tie second in
silgailon which Ine writer has cs
mined & that made BY Miss Susl
! nslee III New York City Here tht
tual yearly earnings with III sore
facts about the conditions nudas
hlrh the money IS armed md iht
ys ii which sheller food ana eloti
x are secured from Il hive bee
lulned from The girls themselves
8om etcfy n0ini II View hose giuf
are lilumlnating realing Thei
h particularly recommended To those
emhefs of lho Wiys and Mean
mmillee who afa Inclined 90 snea
ne ldea that there n anything
fioes N addlne q cent Of two 10 ihs
81 0l necessary article The.
mon9trate II lheY demonstrate ans
ing that It one is 10 take caro- @
family ri 9ve persons tt NeW Yof
= ~ on $500 year, or Of h'mae
s. wage # So or s. a week. be mus
nk before he baya a penny news
per I'd he must save and plan f0i
6ntks 10 get a yearly holiday for o.
mlly al cuHey Island. that there h
acileally No possibility e. nest egi
Of sehoolifg Tor the children heyont
urteen years ol age lhai sickness
beams achl ef charity AMI that itf
cnmulstlon Of those Thugs whle
#akc far comfort ani beauty 81 6
sme Is out Of tho question 20 iaesl
#mlles an iiiersase cf a cent II tbs
tee 0f a quart of milk. az hapneneg
S year ago IN New York. Is something
&C catastrophe t. these slrli
cry penny added to the cost 81 food,
COIL. Of eemman articles of cloth.
~ means slmplg less food asa
zarnth. loss covering, When ~ the
81 they can never have enough Of
II one Of those nacaasarlas lheza
idgeis are i powerful demonstration
at the faDld rise 10 the cost q liy
. & III lac lasl decade hHs heea e q
si number Of peapic Of thls country
# thing less thsn a Tragedy ior what
1 TRUE III Npw Yofk CITY Is equally
#uc IN Chicago. IN plttsbugg aud n
3 any faclura towns.
fe ialee n the Cast Of Living.
& That living has saareA fapl ily up