Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-10-11
UTTER FAILURE
OF DEMOCRATSE
SHOWN IN Price!
Despite Assurances Of Platform
Living Costs Continue to
Soar SkyWard
EVEN UNCLE SAM Is
FEELING HIGHER COSTS
Ranking Minority Member d
Military Affair Committee
Tells Cost of Rations
Especial Star Bulletin CorrespOudsnes,

especial StarrBulieuu Correspondene1l
WASHINGTON, ID. C.. Oct. HE
dnction in the high cost of llvinx. q
promised in the Democratic plafform
OF 1872. is myth declared ReDro.
sentative Julius Kann OF California
ranking minority member of the h0ut1
military affairs committee. in state
rnent given out here.
I'm 1912 the Democratic party prom.
ised the people OF the United State.
to reduce the high cost OF living. sal.
MIR. Kahn. They Illuminated aeaIn1|
the protective Tariff and blamed Ii.
latter for contributing TO the increaae
Of prices Tor food products Of al kinds.
This is the plank of that platform.
Plank 6lames Protection
The high cost of living Is q aor|-
Gus problem In every American hone
The Republican party. in its platfofu
attempts to escape from responslbII'.
ty for present conditions by dengIn.
that they are due to a protective tar.
iff. We take issue with them on f|I|8
subject, and charge that Excessive
prices result In large measure from
the high tariff laws enacted and main
tanned by the Republican party and
from trusts and commercial consDIrn-
cies fos;ered and encouraged by such
laws, and We assert that no sub8|nn.
tial relief can be secured for the pco
pie without import duties on the ne
eessaries of life are materially re-
duced and thes criminal eonspiracioa
broken up
Like many another plank, Il seems
to have been inserted in the platform
in the nature OF 'molasses to catch
flies
Remedy is Ineffective
Instead of reducing the price 81
living under this Democratic admin
istration the cost OF food products IA.
constantly increased Uncle San
himself feels the pinch He Il II.
greatest purchaser OF Commodities I.
the United States. He can buy chean.
er than anybody else because he b6I1
in such large quantities. In 1913 q
the time. the Democrats took posses
sion of the country and promised b
reduce the cost of living he was pay.
ing 20 cents a Cay per ration for every
enlisted man in the United States
army That was the cost OF the Army
ration at that time. The ration ifao||
has not been changed for about EIGHT
years. The same articles OF food that
were given the soldiers in 1909 or.
supplied to them today Acting Quar-
Lermaster General III. G. Sharpe, who
testified before the COMMITTEES on milf
AIRY affairs last March, said that Tor
he year 1917 the cost Of each ration
would be 80 cents. IL cost has In.
,reased steadily since 1919 Ever
rear saw an increase until now the "a.
ion amounts to 80 cents per ddf.
There are approximately 250,000 men
n the regular army and the National
iuard at the present time. An increaao
II seven cents per ration means that
he taxpayers of Uncle Sam have 10
Jay $4,000 day more than they
would have had to pay in 1913 to feed
Jncle Sans soldiers. At that rate the
increased cost to feed the army
each month to $525,000. or
o 100000 per year more than when
he Republicans were in control. The
axpayers are called upon to meet this
eayy increase. But 1t Is not only the
bod for the army that has Increased
ISL. hC CO6S VI ClOltIGl69 |LLMZ|
nd equipment generally has gone uD
! proportion.
The records of the government dis
lose the fact that under the Under.
God tariff bill; which Is probably the
west tariff this country has ever had.
rices have advanced steadily and the
nd is not yet.
The Democratic party proclaimed
J 1912 that the protective tariff was
for the high cost OF living.
was beautiful theory with which
ley fooled many Of the voters OF this
'untry. The people are wiser today.
nder Democratic free trade prices
i've risen to the highest point in
merican history.
viii the voters again be fooled By
sophistry in NoVember?'