Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-31
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Wilson Prosperity.

MT. Editor: It is estimated that the average prices of the staple articles of food have increased from 20 to 25 per cent during the year. This includes fruit, meat, groceries ann, in fact, ev- cry kind of food that forms the basis of diet for most people. Some time ago a New fork paper published table of current prices of selected ar ticles of common consumption with a comparison of the prices prevailing a year ago. This table proved the small est increase to be 20 per cent, and that was on canned salmon, and other advances at about 25 per cent. It is unnecessary to cite trade statistics to support the statement that food prices have reached a height unequalled within the experience of this genera tion. What housekeeper will refute this? que e
 Indications point to a further ad- vance. Not only the price of food, but coal has taken a aljump, along with cloth, and the cost of a pair of shoes. For this unpleasant phenomenon the party in power has failed to account. It was one of it's pet promises to the people in 1912 that it would smash the food trust the coal trust and all the other trusts. MT. Wilson told the peo- pie the trusts must be destroyed. Af- ter four years of his management the evils of the corporate system are un- changed and unremedied by anything that MT. Wilson has done.
 Will the voters support man who holds the welfare of foreign nations above the welfare of his own country? '? Several of the causes of the high prices may be included in one-the European war. European demand for our food after more than two years of war is now at it's highest point. While our increased business with Europe has brought about a golden a of no 7n1-ifT +n the masses are paying for it dearly in the increased cost of food and other necessaries. Has MT. Wilson or his political tricksters explained to the voters the reason he has allowed the financial buccaneers of this country to bleed the toilers of the United States white? Where is the promise of 1912? It is all very well to speak of human fty and with @ sanctimonious face roll their eyes toward heaven and ask the people to thank them for keeping us out of war.
 The chief concern of the man who works is to feed his little ones, eIothe them, and protect his home. What gain is it to receive a dollar increase in pay and have it taken away double in paying for the, necessaries of life? And few of the wage class have been so fortunate as to secure a wage increase. How does, it compare in proportion with the cost of living Under the unprotective tariff laws that now exist what will be the conditions after the declaration of peace in, Eu- rope? Competition from foreign chan nels will prove disastrous for Ameri- can industry and American iaber.e And we will be back where we were before the war gave us this extraordinary era of prosperity,
 This gigantic struggle in the old world has proven to be the saviour of Woodrow Wilson. The vital issue be- this time evidence that Wilson, with his fanciful and unreal statesmanship, is the man to lead the masses the next four years? The falsfty of. Mir Wilson will be inferred in grave of oblivion, a grave of his own making, on Nov. '.
 J. II. CUMMINGS.
 Norwich. Ct. Oct. 2S. 1916.