Norwich bulletin., 1911-09-12
LETTERS TO TIL: EDITOR
The Remedy for High Prices.

Mr. Editor There are two sides to
/ this question of the high cost of 1iv-
ing. One side is that some think they
pay too much while others think they
get too little. There is a wide chasm
between the cost 10 the consumer and
the amount received from production
In the case of the Pennsylvania farm
erS and the consumers of the potatoes
cabbage and milk the farmers received
only 30 cents of the dollar the con-
sumner paid. This chasm swallowed SIS
cents of each dollar paid 1t is a
question for both the producers and
consumers to find where the So cents
goes. Once understand that and the
problem is solved. Knowing this, the
producers and consumers will unite
and work together, instead of antag-
oniZing each other, The remedy that
will reduce the cost to the consumer
will increase the producers receipt.
1t, at present, is an unequitable dis
tribution of the products of labor.
When the so Pennsylvania farmers
went to see Mayor Gaynor to get him
to help them to get more for their
products, i'll his speech to them he
told them that an s'overproduction of
gold was causing higher prices,
but this s.overproduction of gold in
creased the price to the consumers, not
to the producers. Those farmers We're
looking for a remedy for the low
prices received by them. Underpro
duction of gold might reduce the cost
to the consumer, but it would not and
could not increase the price to the
producer. 1t seems there are two prices
one for the consumer and the other
for the producer. In case OF the pota-
toes, to the consumer the price vas
dollar, while the price to the producer
was only about IA cents. The price
to one was Z times larger than the
other. 1T is beginning to dawn on the
~ h.
monarehial system of money has some
thing to do with it. We are told by
congressman, senators and even the
president, that the present money
system is wrong. A commission OF
congressman and senators was ap-
to find out the trouble. 1t has cost
the people between 200 and 300 thou
sand dollars so far. and no report yet.
Something has been said about cen
trail bank, by the commission as
remedy, but not a thing as to the cause
of the wrong. President Garfield said
whoever owns the money of ma
ton fixes the prices of the products
of labor and of labor itself" IL this
be true, then before remedy can be
applied, it must be known who owns
the money and how they came in pos
session ofAt. If they got it legitimate
ily, then they cannot be dispossessed
of it legitimately, and the people must
continue to grin and bear the high
cost of living, as they will have to. if
there is no remedy. The victims of
this system are the ones to find and
apply a remedy. Too long have they
depended on others to do this for
them Result? Conditions continue
to grow worse. If | were asked what
in my opinion, was the primal cause
of this condition, I would say in as
few words as possible-That the con-
centrated ownership and control of
all of that which all the people are
obliged to have, viz, money. is the
greatest power that one man or a
small group of men can use to force
all the rest to do their bidding This
is the power derived from menarchial
principles. 1t is no part or parcel of
a democracy, of a government by the
people and for the people. Reader.
what do you think of such power?
J. c.. VALLETTE.
North Franklin, Conn, Sept. 9, 1911.