Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-25
High Cost of Living.

Mir. Editor: MT. J. c. Vallette's can cer stories are all right as far as mon ey is concerned. but we read in the market report of a big yield of cotton and in a few days We also read that, cotton has fallen in price.
 The American hen stops laying eggs along about this time of the year, and prices soar to 50 and even 60 cents per dozen. Towards February she begins to lay freely. and eggs drop lower and lower until they fall below 20 cents They continue low until the millions of American hens become broody in the spring and stop laying; result, prices go up again. Neither tariff laws nor financial laws cause that.
 Well up to potato digging time this year that useful and necessary tuber sold at the highest price ever known In September. when one of the largest crops ever known was dug, prices tum- bled to about one-third, and now, when a rot has been discovered among Maine and Canadian potatoes, a steady ad- vance has set in. No tariff laws or financial legislation could change those conditions.
 Ten men wish to hire one wood chopper; he can command his own price. Tariff and financial laws to the contrary, notwithstanding.
 Ten woodchoppers want one job; the man who has the job will get one or more of those men pretty cheaply Tariff and financial laws cannot change that
 But there is one product that more than all others proves beyond a shad- ow of doubt that tariff laws, financial legislation and wicked trusts do not regulate it's price, and that is oil. From the day that the Standard Oil monop. oly first entered the arena the price of oil has gradually gone down iron 4S cents per gallon to 10 cents, or neal that. where it remains. More oil i! used today than ever before, and ow. ing to the great amount of money in vested the Standard Oil company ha! | been able to supply the demand, anC not only furnish a better quality O oil, but hundreds of other useful pro | ducts, at the lowest possible price t. | the consumer. The dfssolving of tn, i Standard Oil company some weeks agt was followed by an immediate raise O two cents per gallon in oil. No financial laws, no tariff laws, n' | trust-busting laws have been tn cause of oil falling to one-quarter o l its cost before the Standard Oil com | pany was organized.
 To be sure, the managers of tha trust have become enormously rich, bu at the same time they have saved tn American people hundreds of million of dollars by furnishing them oil an oil products at low price.
 Mir J. c. Vallette has without doubt got good strong argument O money questions. Mir. J. c. Vallett has results of life study to fall bac on in showing up his side of the ques tion, but MT. J. c. Vallette canno make financial laws that will make hen lay eggs when she is shedding.
 Make COWS give milk loaded dow with butter fat in December the sam as June.
 He cannot make a lumber man pa high wages when he has ten men t pick from,th same as ten lumber me pay when they have only one man be tween them.
 The fipancia1 laws, the tariff law the trust busting laws, cannot singl or unitediy after the great unwritte law of supply and demand,
 His second cancer letter is a goo one, He ends it with these words:
 ''The interest on this debt must con from labor and business. by adding
 to the products of labor" That is a
 well and good, but why does. he fail 1