The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
Tie Hight Cost Of Living.

The figures or the department. or
commerce. just published, show that
during the first eight months OF the
current year we imported nearly ten
times as much wheat. and three times
as much wheat -four as we did for TN,
first eight months of August, 1915. nm
der Republican protective rates pid
the price of either 10 down III His
country? Ask the purchaser Of whcar.
or of flour, or or bread. During the
first eight months of19t5 our foreign
PENSIONERS bought of us 1O30D,OO0 ba--
rcls Of flour at an average OF $3.50 Il
barrel; during the first eight months
lof this year they bought 10.3660.U0U
barrels ut $3.50 Il bnrrel They got a
decrease of ninety cents on the barrel
while flour has now reached such a
price in this country that the house
wife can't afford to let her small boy
have flour to make paste for his kite.
We sold 141,000,000 bushels of wheat
to our foreign customers during the
first eight months of 1915. at an aver
age Of Lie a bushel, and 100. 100000
bushels during the first eight months
Iof 1916 at $1.311a a bushel but wheat
is now quoted around SO a bushcl on
Exchange. Fine promise! That of the
Democrats, to. decrease the cost OF liv-
ing.
We imported 100000 pounds OF
fresh beef during the first eight
months Of 1915. and practically none
for the same period Of 1913. under Re-
publican protection, yet the price of
fresh beef here was far higher. We zeX-
ported. during the 1915 period 189 .O0O,-
600 pounds. for which o1Ir foreign Gus
toners paid at tho average rate of
twelve and nfne-tenths cents a pound
We exported during the first eight
months of 1915 about 131 100000
pounds, for which they paid us at the
rate of twelve and four-tenths cents a
pound, or half accent a pound less. But
the man in this country who has fresh
beef oftener than once a week is sus-
pected OF being an agent OF Wall street
The Democrats promised to lower the
cost OF living, but they did not keep
their promise Our foreign customers
are their only benefciaries.
'tPo'k chops'' not So very long ago
We're cIasscd with beef liver, side meat,
and triDc. Today pork chops make
white mans meat" because they com
mand the price which makes them a
deltcacy. The European soldiers find
that fresh pprk is good lighting meat,
and the first eight months of this wear
we sent them 100000 pounds. or
ten times what we sent them for the
same #perlou last year, but there was
this difference: Fresh pork cost our
foreign customers 1872 cents per pound
during the 1915 period, and I1.9 cents
during the 1915 period. OF course that
brought considerable money into tho
Icountry-a little over $5,O00,oOO, in
fact, and the Democratic party uses
such argument as this TO show what
Ia fat old year we are having But who
lgot that S5,000,000? And how many
times five million has it cost the home
CONSUMERS OF fresh pork by reason Of
THE outrageously high nrIce whic j
THAT food product now commands
Where IS all this prosperity, anyhow
And hard winter coming on.
\ We exported 35.000,000 pounds OF
condensed milk during the first eight
months Of last year. and 154,000,OO0
pounds during the first eight months
lof the current year. The price to oil.
foreign customers last year was ia
cents pound; this year eight cents 2
pound. But the price To the home con
sumner has advanced considerably more
than tWo-tenths of cent. While the
Il farmers who supplied some of the milk
a. strike in New York not
Hong ago because they we're not getting
IA good price. But the Democratic
party assures uB that we are all pros
iperous. that Everything Is lovely and
1.-The goose hangs high. II they have
made the goose symbolical or The cost
-lof living. high Is right, and tho
goose should be named Haman.