The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-14

i age and in consequence they bid
 against the people in those countries
 for the food required by tho people
 therein for their own use.
 This creates a shortage in the sup ply and an increase in the demand
 and up goes the price.
 So with this European WET on, the
 price would have gone up in any
 event whether gold was dumped ,n
 huge quantities on these shores or
 not at all. But the vast munition
 and other trade that has come to
 the United States has produced
 plethora of gold supply and with all
 increasing gold supply, the fooo ex-
 pressed in terms of gold must show
 soaring price.
 Moreover this increase in price is heightened by higher costs of tra.s-
 portation, by increased railroad and
 steamship rates and by other minor
 factors which make themselves felt
 economically from time to time.
 Wo have thus endeavorcd to maEe
 clear as we can the increase in price from the economic point of view:
 but political economy buffers no parsnips. It brings no consolation to the man whose purchasing power expressed in wages is reaching the limits also.
 No fine figures displaying a most favorable balance of trade; no elabo.
 rate review of the munitionist activ. ity; no political unction that the
 United States is becoming the Gold Icenter of the universe, carries with it the consolation needed by hungry workers who watch the standard of living going down day by day and week by week and month by month. We may not live by bread alone, bu. economic philosophy is a poor sub stitute for bread in any event, ana it is certain that we have not ye; heard of the end of the high prices
 We are certainly facing a critical time. All revolutions began with hungry bellies. There were wise men, philosophics and trcatises and cyclopedists, but all had the ccono- mic factor deep down as the founda. tion upon which they were built.
 r.tI 1 f11nf l,.I 4I. critics of conditions in Europe seq certain the signs of change in the social conditions that there prevail they can glance over the situation in the United States with eyes un- as if the human beings here were not flesh of the same flesh ana bone of the same bone.
 The United States is seriously at- fected by the war in Europe. The war is compelling the production of the United States workers to fur nish forth as well as tho munitio2 l supply also the food supply for the belligerent nations. Who suffers? Not the exporters who reap their per cent and then. some Not the gamb Ter in the stocks of war babies; net the brokers and railroads and shipp. ing companies, but the, workers. l They. are face to face with condi- tions which mean if they mean any. thing that they have to deny them selves food and clothing or shelter one or the other in the sutticiency or 1 to which they have been | used. s What good is an increase of ter per cent in wages when necessaries have gone up twenty per cent? What good is 1t to think that one has an increased wages if the increased wages will not overtake, the ever ifi~ creasing cost of food. {. N s.ss. Fl
 We have shown why it is that the price of food hes increased. It has increased under the laws of the cn- pitalist system which is. the, pgevais ing. economy. It is inevitable hqr cause of, the fact that it is apron system. xsiIt ist upay0idablen becaaae of the fact, that men must work fsr others v a who spreduce no exchange velueA therefor. Ie yta aNi s..t ,a Hdis sanauestionahlEt correct that this is an abnormal distnrbanse. sspdntbatiitrmay, bA read jnsted aftar s4 IRtfrvsl of approximation, whan peesediA y6stored. ThevArab in the desert used tes console hia .starying 5RAaY ytaAh MajtiIved aits.weuld eat snRSssAa diaaW kdFaters shptpit -nesaK,| 1arQ srauaAAdrt vdAA 4. ..qM 6s.