The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-10-22
COST OF LIVING
DECLINING.

The report of the United States bureau of labor
recently issued and which appeared to show still
further advance in the cost of the necessaries Of
life is declared by leading retail merchants, in an
article published in the Boston Post September 49,
to be largely misleading for the reason that the
matter compiled to show prices on June 49,
since which time there has been very marked
reduction. These merchants declare that flour, for
example is lower than 1t has been at any time in
two years. that potatoes have reached the lowest
point in five years, that sugar is considerably
cheaper now than a year ago, that canned goods
show reduction Of something like 20 per cent
since last spring, that rolled oats has declined in
price nearly 30 per cent, and through the
list.
The truth is these merchants declare, that
far Boston prices concerned, the average is
low as 1t has been in twenty years. So that in
point Of fact, the outcry against the high cost of
living is largely based upon msinformation.
While the foregoing facts are no doubt au
thentic the Republican party does not depend up
on them in any degree as an argument in this cam
paign. Republicans may well admit that 1t costs
more to live under Republican administration than
under Democratic, for everybody knows it is worth
more, and everybody knows particularly that the
people have more to live with.
And that is the real question. Nothing is dear
if 1t be procured with financial ease, and moth
ing is cheap If you have not got the money to buy
it. 1t is not the price you pay for the things you
buy that determines whether you will prosper
not it is the price you get for what you SELL wheth
you sell farm products merchandise or time
or skill, or learning labor. Cheap food won't
keep man from being hungry If he is earning
nothing with which to buy it. Cheap clothing Will
not keep man warm II he has not the price to
pay for it.
Democratic orators and newspapers try to make
people believe Democratic administration would
in some mysterious way reduce the price of every
thing they have to buy without in any way inter-
fering with the price of what they have to sell.
OF that is fiat mpossibility We can't
have five cent bacon and ten cent hogs. We can't
have cheap flour and high priced wheat We can't
sell shoes and clothing for song and still pay
high wages to the men who make them
The Republican party does not claim that the
reelection of President Taft would reduce the cost
of living but does claim that his reelection will
preserve the conditions which exist and under
which it is easier to a living than 1t
before, even If that living costs than it ever
did before
AN honest dollar and chance to earn It,,
was the slogan of the Mckinley campaign and for
sixteen years the Republican party has made it
good. There is no reason why the condition which
now exists should not continue if the Republican
party is kept in power. There is every reason to
fear that there might be disastrous change If the
Democratic party, clinging still to the same doc
trine that brought havoc to the business of the
country the last time it in power, should be
put in control of the nations affairs.
We have prosperity now; why risk it?