Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-21
Ennn alors ABROAD.

Those WhOsbelieved that the dues
ton Of ffie high cost Of living was
dtstinctiyely an American probe m are
given q little cause for reflection IN
the cable news from France ana
Hungary. In Vienna yesterday rlots
resulting from the high price OF looas
and other necessities of life brought
clashes with the police in which many
were killed and injured. In france
there has been rioting, but 1T was an
uprising OF housewives and not at
tended with such violence as the
Vienna riots. The following cable dis.
match from Paris gives some IDEA OF
the situation in that country:
Paris. France, Sept. 18.-The cost OF
living in France, which has been
creeping upward steadily during ten
wears. has risen with jump this sum-
men. One principal reason Is the three
months of extraordinary dry ana not
weather, whitening and drying up tne
vegetables consumed In large quantl-
ties by all classes in France Strhs
beans Of the most ordinary Description
for example, sell for 9 to IL cents d
pound and lettuce at $3.50 per hundred
wholesale.
L Discomfort of housewives has taken
violent form in the north, Where at
lacks upon farmers, butchers, store
keepers and other vendors by banos
of yiragoes are the daily excitements
in towns and cities. The revolutionary
labor party has thought this good
occasion to take part, but the women
manifestants oppose this and keep
the agitation in. their own hands. A
loose organization spreads over the
north. although example more stnan
ANYTHING else keeps the market places
in uproar in half hundred cities ana
smaller centers. Sometimes there IS q
meat boycott for couple OF days at
a time as q warning to the butchers.
or three or four hundred women VIII
rush e. market. tipping over all the
stands and half destroying the I. eat
ables. -
Demands OF the housewives are Tor
milk at 8 cents a quart, butter at 80
cents pound, bread at Is or 10 cents
for. the five, pound loaf and plain
meats at 20 cents a pound. so 1ar as
bread and dairy products $ are con'
+cerned, the women have been gene9r-
ally successful, but the butchers VI
terly refuse to- give way. They affirm !, !,
that selling at 20 cents pound woulo
cause an actual loss. Farmers nave
not been able to combine, as the butch
ers, have done, and they are yielding,
although increased prices from their
point Of view seem justified because
fodder is dear and scarce. Most OF tne
cows are stable fed, and the milk sup
nly ia POSSIBLY a third less than usual.
The long drouth has burnt up the
second crops Of fodder.
The Parisians hear of these success
full raids on prices In the northern
provinces with the hope that some
thing will happen to check the rising
cost OF everything In the CAPITAL
where living is 80 per. cent dearer than
.it was at the opening of the century.
The problem abroad will right Itself
as It is righting itself in this country.
There has been a change in the plane
OF living. The present generation mas
become accustomed to more luxurlous
living than its predecessors. a year OF
bad crops has placed some OF une
things the people were accustomed 10
temporarily out of their reach. the
conditions will be righted, but such
violence as has been shown. abroad
will not aid in the reimbursement. Sober
Judgment will do the people of France
and Hungary more good than useless
riots with the police, who are In no
wav responsible for the condition and
who can do no more to right the sit
uation than any other class Of people.
$63, 900 Is the amount that was sent
out Of the U. S. for foreign made
pocket knives. razors and scissors in
July Of this year.