The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-29
Editor Palladium:

EullOT Palladium.
The article appearing in the Palladi-
UNI of Sunday, August 27, giving the
opinion of c. B. Hunt as to the cause
of the present high cost of living Is a
revelation and creates a distinction
that few of us realized as existing
Mr.. Hunt proposes a remedy for the
present high cost of living by pointing
out the cause, which is, that the high
cost of living would never exist were
it not for the capacity of high living
on the part of the poorer classes.
In other words the ordinary wage
Garner should be satisfied with an in
ferior article of food to build up the
physical tissues which are torn down
by the arduous nature of his labor.
They have no rights or claims upon
the market for first class provisions
May / ask you, Mr.. Hunt to enlarge
little further upon your theory by
giving us dietary classification that
will conform to your idea as to what
is fit menu for the poor mans ia
BILE?
To what stage of publication should
bacon reach to be considered as sec
ond class commodity and fit for con-
sumption by the poor people?"
| To what degree of incubation should
eggs be advanced to be considered un-
fit food for the parties of the first
class thereby placing them in the
category of fitness for the common
people?"
What strength to the square inch
should be accepted as a standard with
which to mark the line of distinction
on butter, separating that which is fit
for the rich and unfit for the poor or
unfit for the rich and fit for the poor?
. How close to the edge of the table
should cheese be permitted to walk to
determine it's unfitness for the table
of the rich? When declared unfit and
is consequently relegated to the table
of the poorer classes, what proper
ton of embalming fluid would you re-
commend as necessary to preserve it's
form and arrest it's progress of decom'
/ position?
J Will you kindly tell us how to deter
mine first from second class meat, as
/
was killed because of it's failure to
stand the tuberculosis test?
How long may pigs feet be exposed
after being taken from cold storage,
before being placed in line as fitted for
the common people,"
How are "soup bones" classified
Is there enough to go round? Are
prices affected by the large demand
Is the present price Of &c per potato
due to the demand for first class po-
tatoes?
To think of it. Here we have been
foolishly led to believe that high
prices was due to monopolistic mani
pulations when the very causes have
been ourselves, that is, if you can get
any one to believe it.
| Mr.. Hunt seemingly wants to go
the philosopher one better, who says:
1.-THE tragedy of modern civilization is
the sacrifice Of human life to the ne.
cessity of obtaining the physical
means of living" Mr.. Hunt would
have us believe that "the tragedy of
modern civilization is the sacrifices the
rich are compelled to make to satisfy
the lust for leafs" by the poor" or
common people"
To think again Mr.. Hunt is my sug
gestion, and before you make any fur
Their statements for publication jus
think of what you would do to a dot
that bites your hand while profferine
to him a home. l do not wish to b,
understood as insinuating that the dol
has more intelligence than a huma,
being but he seldom bites those wht
feed him. No further comment is ne
cessary.
John C. Gem,
Richmond, Ind.