Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-01-05

for what he has to sell, in order that
he may pay it. Therefore 1t ncees.
sarily affects the price Of what he
produces. He must either take less
profit or else raise his price.
"You will hear 1t said constantly
with reference to something on which
he price has been advanced, %, that
Isn't in. the tariff at all. That, in.
-rease has nothing to do with the
tariff But the fact is that the tar
III Increases OF prices reach al a.ons
the line. You can't raise the cost q
living to man who produces some,
ching to sci. without forcing that man
70 raise correspondingly the price OF
what he has to sell. That is the re.
iation Of the tariff to it al along ths
iae..
,,es Combinations Reach All.
Then there Is the relation of com.
nations to 1t all. They reach now
. almost everything. When we ha,
zeal competition, it was W. ong to s y
We had a high tariff; the tariff wa
aerely protective, and VIII lie 1t ke. 1
put foreign goods. competition anon
iome producers kept the prices f.on
becoming excessive. But that is h
onger the case. because CT the work.
ng Of the combinations to kill com
.etition at home.
1t used to be said that there wa
10 consumer. What that meant, o.
Course. was that everybody got b s
share Of the benefits Of the pro
Lon to the American prod Ger, every.
body was better off for that condi.
ton, no one class got all the .bene.
tits, and no other class paid the bill,
for all OF them. But when we come
to the era Of combinations, behind
our tariff wall, to prevent comreti.
tion at home while the tariff prs-
vents competition from abro d., then
we find ourselves facing this condi.
ton. Of constantly increasing cost
living. Eliminate competition an
producer and consumer at once te3
some two different classes.
People Living Better.
3 Then there is the tendeney OF OIL
] seople to- more extravagant living
They have more necessities, or tn nj
they do. than formerly. Look at tn
automobile business. We have mad
hundreds OF thousands of automobiles
md people have bought them;
go many people who couldn't az
! 'tor1 them. Now see how th.t effects
Z sbR price OF leather. Every autol
bile requires b lot Of leather.
iswssand sudden demand for all this
coming from the autmoobile man /,
'lrers Of the whole world, added
he former demands for leather, M;
es the supply short, and the prlc
goes up. The automobiles : max
shoes cost more, in that way.
And the ILLUSTRATION is merely typ
tcal Of many other cases that could
be cited.
9'a The tRsmedy's the Question.
Tho remedy? That's a greet que .
ton. To answer 1t reminds one of
the case of the young preacher VIII
took forlhis subject "God and the un
verse. He said he would concede tn
universe and devote himself to tn
argument to prove that there is a,
God. That was rather larye them
so Is this one. We may concede tn
Increase Of the cost Of living, b.
Tow to cope with it is another ques
lion: For one thing, we must have
no legislation that will reen'orce II !,
combinations. I mean. that tariffs
so adjusted as to protect combinr
tons at home against compet!tiol
abroad. must be lowered. The corf
nations are eliminating competit.oI
'ust az Sherman and B'a'ne twenty
yeare ESQ saw that they would. It isA'