Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-29
Hay MAY TRIM
COST Of LIVING
Bumper Crop Expected to Bring
Material Reduction in Cost
of Food Products.
sy 9. c. Fcesss.

Prices of all kinds of meat as we'll as
butter milk and cheese should come
down. Articles of clothing made from
cotton should also move in the same d-
rection, while if woolens do not decline
the public will have reason to feel cha
grined over the outcome of tariff revi-
sion
What crop. think you. ranks next in
value to King Corn Cotton? No
Wheat? Not at all 1t Is hay. The Wall
Street breed of farmer seldom realizes
this. Indeed, city dWellers hear SO little
about this inconspicuous product that
they do not grasp how intimately it af-
fects. their household bill This years
grass Sop promises to pass all records,
thanks to the abundance of moisture.
Now. with an abnormal supply of green
grass and hay the farmer will be able to
-Eaise plenty of cattle to supply all do
mestic requirements and the needs of for
eign customers.
You will recall-if YOU have anything
to do with household .accounts-that every
time the butcher adds few cents more
TO his charge for meat he lays all the
blame at the door Of Nature-"there is a
great scarcity OF fodder owing to the
drouth, he conveniently explains. The
same reason is given when butter and
milk soar skyward Hence. IL should-and
no doubt will-follow that bumper crop
of grass spells lower prices for these COM
modities of everyday use
Sunshine VIII Bring Harvests.
Yeoman service has latterly been rem
dered the United States by King Sol A
few weeks of such feather as has recently
been enjoyed will work wonders in Great
ing agricultural wealth, upon which our
prosperity so largely depends Let us
t,o-, ,f =. 80 81 i
no amount of political wrangling will hold
the country back. at least not in the
near future, although the political por
tends are grave enough to cause capital
10 pause.
The extreme desirability Of more gen
erous Yields of farm products will be
realized when 1t is noted that while food
stuffs show an increase of less than two
per cent for the last decade. the rise in
value has been, some so per cent. Popula-
ton has gone up q per cent in the same
period
Flnanciers are striving herolcallY 10 re
main unmoVed by the political storms
now raging. But their equanimty does
not mean Indifference. One morning
there will probably be real oldfash-
Toned scare, and then security values will
temporarily tumble headlong.
Outlook Politically.
Wall Street can not foresee the outcome
Of the present many-sided struggle. But
here is one financial reading of the situa-
ton:
a. II President TAFT receives the RepubH-
wcan nomination. Mr.. Roosevelt will found
new party, and the split with result In
the election of the Democratic candidate.
If. on the other hand. Mr. Roosevelt wins
at Chicago and the Democrats select
worthy leader. a close fight Is expected.
No condolences are betrayed by saying
that Wall Street believes Mr.. Roosevelts
bark is much worse than his bite would
actually be II elected Nor is. capital.
after it's experience with the Republicans
during the last ten years, greatly afraid
of Democratic rule
The truth is. that many of Americas
strongest men of affairs are veerfng round
to the view, already forced upon British
employers, that the people win not rest
satisfied until the relations Between CAPT
tai and labor, between the rich and the
poor have undergone substantial modif
cation A more equitable distribution of
profits, Encouragement of taxation, less
discriminatory tariff schedules are among
the demands that will not be silenced.
Day Of the ProeresslVes
For good or for evil-and surely il is
for good" progressive legislation is
being forced upon the statute books not
only of this country, but of the most en-
Hghtened nations of Europe. Certain far
sighted capitalists are now urging their
colleagues not to throw themselves. vainly
against the tide, but rather to endeayor.
by fair means, to direct the tide into le-
Ultimate and non-ruinous channels
Business is doing little better The
warmer weather has stimulated purchas-
ing of goods at retail Prospects of boun-
teous crops are causing the railroads to
order enormous quantities of material,
and prices are a shade higher In one or
two lines Traffic even now is of heavy
volume but net earnings are not cor
respondingly satisfactory.
Railway 1remen in the East and freight
handlers in the West are sgitating for an
advance in wages, and the selection OF ar
bltrstors for the Eastern engine drivers
dispute has had to be passed UP to gov
eminent officials Labor troubles, there
fore. are not an impossibility,
Anthracite Producers Gain.
h. Anthracite producers have simply
Thrown the burden of the increase in
wages upon the defenseless public. In
-~eea. they have gone further; they have
added a few million dollars extra, so they
are better off than under the old SEIZED
ule, 1t is naively explained that the sd
, ditional twenty five cents ton can not
be levied upon certain sizes. as there
would be competition from bituminous
coal. but the householder. cornered, must
use anthracite, and must pay whatever
price the producers please to name.
In face Of the fortunes the anthracite
interests have been piltng up for years,
would they not better reconsider their
ontiop7 curh conduct is not conducive To
harmonious relations between the HAYES
and the have nots.
The stock markets irregular movements
are fairly accurate reflex OF current SEN
timent Bonds are not easily distributed
really distributed that is, as distinct
from merely placed.