The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-27
Florida Press Opinion,
PRICES NOT GOING HIGHER


As rule the merchants telling their cus-
toners You'd better get as much of this you
can afford. for I'm telling you that everything II
going way up-out OF sight in many instances"
And the customer will straightaway double his or
der presume that Is way of maintaining that
business usual stunt which the administra-
ton has been endeavoring to foist upon the long,
suffering public. Possibly is all right-but fail
to grasp the idea. BY purchasing double the guam
tty actually needed there created . fictitious
market for the article. and that act repeated mill
lion times day establishes false ideas of the mag
nitude of the normal business. Straightway tho
manufacturer commences to increase his produce
ton-ony to find later that his goods COM
parative drug on the market-and ne becomes IL
nancially embarrassed unless he has strong capi-
tai to tide him till conditions do at normal
T can see why goods OF any sort
should go higher" To the contrary, can see--or
fancy I see-why they should become lower.
The bubble Of initiation win be perforated by gem
eral consent before many days The days Of the
profiteer have passed the high noon OF greed and
comes now the twilight where common profits.
common prices, and commonsense will watch the
sun of avarice and guttony drop beyond the hori-
zon- The dollar will be worth the one
hundred cents of old The fifty cent dollar and
the thirty-cent dollar are going OF fashion
and there have surely been numbers of them
in circulation. The manufacturers of articles both
necessary and luxurious who have been endeavoring
fic will bear" will be forced knock off that from
twenty to sixty cent which has been added
within the past two years-else they will have
trade
There are hundreds OF things which the ulti-
mate consumer can well deny himself as to yield
to unjust demands when prices enquired into
Suppose that five million people decide to make the
'old pair Of shoes last them for another three
months: that five million that they
will darn and re-darn their that for three
months they will not be forced to make purchase;
that five million declare that for three months
they will patched trousers rather than pay
extortionate rates? And there many lines of
articles-both of food and of apparel-which may
be reckoned along this same way. just suppose all
this; and what will be the result? There would
be complete revolution in all lines Of business
which might be hardship for few. but it would
be benefit for the masses For my part I'd like
to see things thus happen. 1t would be lesson
for both the producer. the manufacturer. and the
consumer 1t certainly would
There has been excuse for the airplaning Of
prices-that is, unless may ascribe the hogging
of wealth by a greedy group All of
this work Ias tendency to increase the ranks of
socialism; it's good system of propaeanda
the most enthusiastic of that fraternity would
and. while the country and the people far from
being ready to adopt that form of there
mighty good tenets OF the rabd OF that
denomination unless almost instantaneous action
shall drive away the threatening clouds of unfair
and unjust prices.