The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-04-24
WHAT DEPEW
I Kinks Of
HIS | IF {
So FAR
Senator Chauncey Depew Makes
an Interesting Estimate of
What World AMOUNTS to
DISCUSSES PRESENT
HIGH LIVING COST
Says Most sencfleent Changes Are
Those Granting New Rights
10 Femininity
DISCUSSES PRESENT
HIGH LIVING COST
Says Most sercfcent Changes Are
Those Granting New Rights
10 Femlninity

NEW YORK, April 2S.-"For long
life aboundinS in good things in a
capacity for enjoying everything In
reciprocal attachments and contribu.
tions with multtudes Of mon and wo.
men is more than my SHIRE of health
and happiness. reverently thank Coo
both that | am alive and that ] have
lived" was Senator Chauncey NJ. De
Dew's estimate OF what the world has
amounted TO in his life.
The senator was speaking at the
nineteenth annual dinner given him
by the Montauk club OF Brooklyn In
celebration OF his 10th birthday. Sen.
ator Depew, apparently as hale and
healthy as ever, said:
I read the other day of Ivan Kus-
man. who was admitted to the hospi.
tai in St Petersburg ut the ago OF
13S, He remembered Napoleon's
burning of Moscow and the few Incl
dents that occur in the career OF
Russian peasant. He was an agricul-
tural la6orer for a mere pittance dur
Ing this whole period. ard could neith-
er read nor write. This is not an ex-
perlence to be enyled. 1t enforces
Tennyeon's lines: Better fifty years
of Europe than a cyclic Of Cathay'
But on the contrary, when you
think Of Auber. composing his best op-
eraS at so. and Manuel Garcin still an
instructor in vocal culture at 100. AID
Whittier singing ii.l;uortal songs at
So. you arc In contact with men who
lived and who know what it all
amounts to-"
In regard to high prices and eco
nomical problems be said:
More ald more the United States.
because of cheaper cost, is bringing
into every department OF human In
dustry greater capital and larger EN-.
ployment. II has produced. on the one !
hand, the gigantic corporation. and on
the other In self-defcnse the labor |
unions, The problems growing out of !
this development are the ones which |
this generation faces, and of which |
the preceding ones were ignorant !
There can be no reasonable doubt |
that the proper method OF dealing |
With these great questions Is not by |
ownership, but by govern
ment control
Just now there is both suffering
and alarm because OF high prices. /
have not much sympathy with those
Who say that this condition is due to
national eXtraVagance. There was
complaint of high prices
n 1885. There is on file in the treas
far,1 RI nnnx.hnnIr nf IN
)enseS oC a clerk who wanted an In.
crease in salary because Of the unu-
1ual cost of living. His fcmlly con-
sisted of five persons and his food for
he year cost him $32S10. The bu-
eau Of labor of the government est
mated last year that the food for sim
lar families would be S3l292. This
Jerk says that his boots cost him
1915, his cotton sheeting ten cents q
ard tboth now are about the samo
,rice) his lamp oil one dollar gal
on now ten cents). blackinS OF
hoes 25 cents n shine (now five
.ents): -four eight dollars a barrel
now seven); transportation for him
elf and wife from Washington TO
Va, and return. $3203
now 5000. MarUnsburg being II
niles from Washington. an ordinary
cooking stove $40 (now about S16.5O)
nd iirldn of butter S1025 (now
bout S2150). Extravaganza is a rel
tive. not a positive, condition. No
,ody would live now as the whole
ountry did In 1893 and 1885.
"The most beneilcent changes which
ave occurred during my time have
'een the laws granting rights to wo-
men," said the senator.