Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-01-19
INCREASE, OR FACE FAMINE.
Cost Of Living Grows--.Warning by
President of New YaSk Central.

we must increase production per
acre by more intelligent methods or
we must face the relentlesa ! certainI
day when we shall not prof uce foodi
enough to supply our own necessi
ties" said President VIM. c. Brown,
of the New York Central Railroad,
In an address last Wednesday night
befor the New England Railroad
Club, in Boston, Mass. The wages
of labor he declared, must con-
sinue to advance in fair ratio with
the steady increase in the cost of
living"
Many representatives cf New r.ng-
land railroad interests were gather
ed about the banquet tables. Cover
nor Eben S. Draper, also was prin-
cipal guest and speaker.
President Browns speech, coming
as 1t does at the height Of new
fiood-tide OF national prosperity, was
intended for a warning of the most
serious import. 1t gains added force
by its reiteration of the recent ad-
monitions of Jas. J. Hin, another
great railroad man, as well as those
Of visiting students of our internal
affairs, and it is especially timely in
view Of the fact that the employees
Of all the railroads east Of the Mis-
sissippi are formulating demands for
an increase in wages, based on the
increased cost of living. Mr.. Brown
said. in part:
''The most portentious cloud dis
cernible upon the political or eco
nomic horizon at this time is the
steady, relentless increase in price Of
everything that goes to make up the
cost Of living.
This unusual phenomenon Of
steadily rising values in the face of
long succession Of bountiful crops
is one Of the most important as we'll
as interesting problems that con-
fronts the political economist to-day.
The crop grown in 1908 has been
almost consumed. The coal mined
last year has been burned, but the
gold produced year after year piles
up and as 1T accumulates it takes
more gold to buy bushel OF wheat.
suit of clothes, pound of beef
stake. sack of -four or any of the
other necessities of life
"Another froce working for high
er cost of living, more insist emily,
more powerfully and with a sinister
significance compared with which all
others become negligible factors;
and this IS the alarming rapidity
with which consumption of the pro-
duets of the nations farms is over
taking production.
Statistics show that the failure to
increase the product of our farms in
anything like the ration of increase
in consumption, is eXerting more
than three times the effect upon cost
OF living than the increase of gold is
having.
eff the CONVEX ging lines OF produc-
ton and consumption lin the United
States continue to approach each day
as they have during the past ten
years, before the middle Of the dec
AIDE upon which we have just enter
ed has been reached, the last vessel
loaded with the agricultural products
Of this country will have left our
shores. the exporting grain elevators
in our seaboard cities will stand emp
ty and this great nation. like those
OF the old world, will be looking for
place to buy the necessaries Of life.
''There is no alternative-we must
increase production per acre by more
intelligent methods, or we must face
the relentless. certain day when we
shall not produce food enough to
supply our own necessities"
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