Weekly journal-miner., 1916-11-15
COST 0F LIVING CONTINUES ID
 INCREASE
GETTING LESS FOR OUR PRODUCTS AND PAYING MORE FOR EVERYTHING WE EAT AND WEAR.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. II. - The
 figures of the department of com
 merce, just published, show that dur
 ing the first eight months of the cur
 rent year we imported nearly ten
 times as much wheat, and three times
 as much wheat flour as we did for the
 first eight months of August, 1913, un-
 der Republican protective rates. Did
 the price of either go down in this
 country? Ask the purchaser of wheat
 or of flour, or of bread. During the
 first eight months of 1915 our foreign
 customers bought of us 10,300,00O barrels of flour at an average of So.50
 ! barrel; during the first eight months
 of this year they bought 10,360,0O0
 barrels at $500 a barrel They got a
 decrease of 90 cents on the barrel
 while flour has now reached such a
 price in this country that the house.
 wife cant afford to let her small boy
 have flour to make paste for his kite.
 We sold Al 100000 bushels of wheat
 Q our foreign customers during the
 first eight months or 1915, at an aver lge of Sl.46 bushel, and 100 0,204,000 bushels during the first eight months
 of 1916 at S13lH a bushel, but wheat is now quoted around g a bushel on exchange Fine promisel That of the
 Democrats, to decrease the cost of living.
 We imported S2,OOO,OOO 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 exported, during the 1915 period 1So, 100000 pounds, for which our foreign customers paid at the average rate of l2 2o-l0 cents a pound. We exported during the first eight months of 1916 about l3l,O00,000 pounds, for which they paid us at the rate of 12410 cents a pound, or half a cent a pound less. But the man in this country who has fresh beef oftener than once q week is suspected Of being an agent of Wall Street The Democrats prom ised to lower the cost of living, and they kept their promise. Our foreign customers are the benehciaries, how ever.
 'Pok chops" not so very long age were classed with beef liver, side-meat and tripe. Today pork chops make white mans meat" because they command the price which makes them delicacy. The European sol diers find that fresh pork is good fighting meat, and the first eight months of this year we sent them pounds, or ten times what we sent them for the sanfc period last year, but there was this difference: ! Fresh pork cost our foreign customers l22 cents per pound during the 1915 period, and ll9 cents during the 1916 period. Of course that brought con siderable money into the country-a little over S5,0OO,OOO, in fact, and the Democratic party uses such argument as this to show what fat old year we are having. But who got that $ .000,OO0: And how many times five . million has it cost the home consum- ] CTS of fresh pork by reason of the out rageously high price which that food product now commands? Where Is 1 all this prosperity anyhow? And a hard Winter coming on.
 We exported 35OOO,OOO pounds oi condensed milk during the first eight months of last year, and 154.00OOOO pounds during the first month of the current year. The price to our for cign customers last year was 7.S cents q pound; this year cents a pound. But the price to the home consumer has advanced considerably more than Lwo-tenths of cent. while the farm ,rs who supplied some of the milk a strike in New York not long ago because they were not get ling a good price. But the Demo cratic party assures us that we arc all that everything is lovely and the goose hangs high" If they nave made the goose symbolical of Inc cost of living. high" Is right, and he goose should be named Haman. '