The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-17
The Plain Truth
About the High Cost Of Living

fifty per cent dry vegetables thirty per cent coal
thrty-four per cent milk almost Fifty per cent
In Italy, generally believed to be the home Of
cheap living, eggs cost double what they did Eve
years ago. beef is twenty-five per cent higher, milk
one-htird higher. A few years ago Italy was an ex-
porter of beef-cattle now it is an importer.
Other countries show similar conditions of high
prices.
Mr.. Taft and the Tariff are not to blame for con-
dons that exist in all the countries Of the world as
well as in the United States.
WHO are getting the benefit of the high prices?
Primarily the producers. The wheat-growers, the
menwho raise CATTLE hogs, sheep poultry eggs, wool
and cotton. Also the manufacturers and their en-
ployees, who make clothing Shoes furniture, mach
inery, and other things we all need and USE
Wages depend on the high or low prices of manu-
featured products and these wages in all lines are
steadily increasing.
There may be some mddlemen who are still ben
ehtingmore than they should, but the relatively small
amount of their profits is intnitesal compared with
the docd OF money that's reaching the who pro-
dice the goods.
g,a,9n1lY that nation can be happy and prosperous
where the tiller of the soil is literally rewarded for
his labor! Because on the land and on the crops de-
ponds the entire fabric of all prosperity
The farmer buys from the retailer; the retail deal
er from the obber manufacturer; the factory gives
employment to millions of men in shops and mines
and forests; the railroad fills its cars with freight
and pays wages TO hundreds Of thousands of families
railroad and factory earnings return dividends to vast
numbers OF small capitalists; who in turn buy more
goods and create need for the fruits of the farm
and the field.
Thus, when prices are good, prospentysrales All
Benefit. All have work
OF course living is higher than in times of panic
and OF stress. Abundance of work brings abundance
of employment; no man who wants work lacks a lob;
he earns more and lines better than when prices are
low work is scarce and uncertainty and anxiety pre-
vail.
And remember that prices are never so low as
When.panic rules in the land
Now-can we gain anything by experimenting
With our present prosperity? y
i Is it Mise to play with fire.?
We can easily create another panic such as de-
fyastated the country the year before Mr. Taft was
elected
We can easily disturb the present .healthful ac-
tiVity OF farm and factory.
We nightly adverse and drastic legislation
cut down the high prices of food and clothing
BUI-in SO doing we put agriculture back in its
old impoverished condition. contract the trade of the
rural district; reduce the output of field and factory
turn millions OF men out Of their jobs; bring want and
poverty in place of abundance and prosperity
Is it 1uSe to experiment?
M. Voting against President Taft and the present
adminstTation exposes us TO return of the days of
tTightened capital, restricted production fewer jobs
for the Workngmen, lower prices for the producer
70 al the doubts and sufferings from which we are
now 50 happily free.
Things may not be perfect-but they are good
and getting better. The wise man-wth Mckinley
holes fast to that which is good"
Better to bear the (essening( ills we have than
lily to others that ne know not of.