Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-02
BUSINESS TEMPER
SHOWING CHANGES.
The Whole Year Has Been a
Period Of Read
justment.
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THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING
Complaint First Came From the Con-
s,in,cr and then Spread Through
All Circles.
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New York, Nov. discretionary ten
denotes are decidedly more evident
than six months ago. and the year
drawing to Il close shows n very dif-
ferent business temper, says Henry
Clews of New York In his weekly cir
cular letter. The whole year has, been
n period OF REIMBURSEMENT. some lines
OF business maintaining continued ac-
tiVity rs result of previous mprnen-
tum, while others showed decided
slackeninG II not actual retrogression
AS reaction touched first one depart
ment of industry and then another,
the conviction spread abroad that no
general recovery was possible until the
reimbursement process WAS complete and
n general evening up--Or. more proper
Is speaking, shaking down--had taken
place. The fact that we had reached,
for the present ut least. climax in
the upward movement was popularly
expressed In innumcrable complaints
about high costs of living. These COM
plants at first originated with the con-
sumer. They now come from the pro-
Queer and distributor, who find the en-
HANGED cost of doing business a serious
detriment. The consequence Is n whole
some change. Economy is at last ia
king the place of extravvagance with
the consumer. while efficiency has be-
come the watch-word among producers
and distributors. AT the same time,
owing to good crops the cost of living
promises to be further reduced by u
drop in the price of food products. Ac-
cording to the statistics of the depart
ment Of agriculture. the conIbined &C.
real crops of 1910 show an increase of
s per cent over last year, corn and oats
reporting record yields. AS
result of the big corn crop the price of
meat has already declined, and this
cereal being an important element in
the cost Of raising cattle, 1t would seem
rs II the price of meat should remain
on a lower basis.
With some relief in the high cost of
living in sight, and with the political
campaign out of the way, two impor-
tant elements of depression have been
ameliorated, If not removed. 1t Is true
the tariff question is stll with us. We
Must expect and endure a period Of
heated and prolonged discussion, but
new legislation seems hardly probable
before 1872 Our new congressman do
not 30 into office until year hence.
and all talk of an extra session OF
Congress after March I. 1911. when the
approaching season ends. should be
earnestly discouraged. The short ses-
sion beginning Il week hence Will be
fully occupied with appropriations and
other necessary routine affairs. and
these should not be delayed in order to
afford a pretext for forcing the pres-
dent into calling an extra session to
enable premature seating ofanew mem
bers. There Is danger Of political
trick of THIS sort. and It should be Sc
vcrcly discountenanced by the entire
business community. It IS universally
admitted that the tariff must be revised
tiow1rwards. but hasty actlonIis mad
visnble, and the country is entitled to
period of rest before another change
is enforced. Some interval between
medicinal doses is necessary, or even
our vigorous tar;ff-fed Infant Will not
survive the treatment