The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-17

nowadays, from peQantlc professors
of political economy in our colleges,
politicians and subsidized newspa-
pers, as to the increased cost of liv-
ing. Vacuous sophistry and glib
tongued knavery have advanced
about every theory under the sun to
explain the wild saturnalia of hold
up prices facing the consumer. Our
urban centers are attracting and de-
populating the farming districts, lack
of intensive farming is creating un-
der-production, extravaganza and
Wastefulness on the part of the
housewife is emptying the pantry,
cold storage sharks are cornering the
market, wholesalers and retailers are
Matching iniquitous combination,
gold overproduction has cheapened
knows what not. Later on Halley's
comet will make it's appearance, and
most likely some superstitious fanat-
les will adduce another reason. And
just to think, the tariff was REVIS-
ED but a few short weeks ago! Did
ever effect follow cause with such
lightning-like rapidity and death
like certainty? And, yet, flabber-
gasted dupes that we are, we smile
at the children of the classic age,
who, in their efforts to connect cause
with effect, associated Aeolus with
the wind and Neptune with the wave.
Quite recently Mr.. Henry Cabot
Lodge said there was no such crea-
ture as the ultimate consumer" He
has once more disturbed the slumbers
of Socrates, and here is what the
oracular Henry Cabot chirps:
'There are only three countries
in the world that have edible ami
mails to export-this country, Aus
tralia and the Argentine. Now, that
being the case, the mere removal of
the duty will not affect the price of
the beef. We can not import beef
from countries that have no surplus
to export. We are the exporters of
beef"
0, the literary charlatan and mis-
cradle political fraud. IT there is no
beef imported into this country, then
why was tariff duty ever imposed
and why is it now retained? AS is
thoroughly known to the gentleman
from Massachusetts, there is a very
substantial reason-the CONGRESS
SIONAL LOBBY maintained by the
Beef Trust to debauch the Repre-
sentatives of the people and tax their
living necessities. Go, Henry Cabot
Lodge, and churn out some more of
those Wishy-Washy books for the
edification of New England beldames
and cease disgusting us with your
hypOcritical twiddle-tWaddle
Here, also, is cute little epigram,
The trouble is not so much the high
cost Of living as the cost of high liv-
ing" Who do you think got that
off? Why, James ]. Hill! Shades
of Lazarus! this from the lips of
Jim Hill, the money-mad, railroad
monopolist, who clutches in his ava
ricious claws public utility, levies
tribute upon trust-ridden people,
and then hurls such a lying insult
into their teeth. Confound his in
science.
And along comes Mr.. Taft, with
his administration owls hooting in
harmony, proclaiming that the vast
over-production of gold is RESPONSE
BILE for the trouble. Alas, have all
the spread-eagle speeches of William
Mckinley, Mark Hanna and the other
spellbinders about SOUND MONEY
come to this! Mr.. Taft's statement
is not only inconsistent, but it is alb.
solutely false. The men who own
the gold mines control the national
banks, and any one halfway familiar
with the past history of the finan