Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-08
HIGH PRICE REMEDY IS IN CONSUMERS HANDS
(written speeially For The Bulletin)

Written Specially For The Bulletin)
 There's an old English saying which runs something like this:-
 set a beggar on horseback, and he Il ride straight to the devil"
 This is simply vigorous way of say ing that people who don't honestly earn prosperity aren't usually able to bear it sensibly.
 I'll warrant, if you're New England born, that you've heard it put that lat ter way scores of times. Some neighbor has had a big windfall of fortune-fall- en heir to a pot of money-had an ex- ceptional streak of good luck. He Cor she, it's quite as apt to be the one as the other) immediately launches out in- to an expenditure and an amount of dis play which would have seemed wicked to him. in former times And the neighbors. shaking wise heads, remark among thrmselves that he can't seem to stand prosperity
 It may not have occurred to you, but l. is the fact nevertheless that no small part of the high cost of living has been brought on us by our own conduct as a people along this very line. Here S what one of the highest authorities on trade conditions in the country says in regard to the manufacturing outlook:
 Persons who by wages paid during the war suddenly became possessed of more money than they ever had before to do with. demanded so much of the best and costliest goods that manufac- turers made up enormous quantities. Now they are overstocked because the general public has stopped buying be- cause of high prices"
 Slmmered down to It's bones, this mans explanation is that millions of people finding themselves in receipt of bigger wages than they had ever dreamed of as possible, plunged wildly into buying the fancy high-priced goods which thereto fore, had been absorbed only in small quantities by the unco' rich. Whereuror dealers and manufacturers naturally stocked up with the kind of goods the demand was greatest for-and the prof it highest in. Now, the same millions having boosted things by their own act are sickeniIs ct the acts logical result and denouncing the Other fellows for their own work.
 This Is human nature, so-calIed. with out a doubt. The worst of it is tha those who have sown the wind are no the only ones to reap the whirlwind. | 1t would only blow down their shoddy castles and leave the rest of us in peace we could stand it. We might even flnC certain comfort in hearing then Bqueal But that isn't the way thing go in this world. The innocent suffe with the guilty; tho wise with the fool ish; the foreseeing with the self-bIind ed.
 Tho really responsible causes of tn ruction find more fault and do nor Erumbling about 1t than it's undeservin victims. That, also is human nature, SC called. And it isn't wholly admirabl sort of nature in either view.
 A travelling man happened to be i store down in Texas, one day las spring, when a cattle rustler who ha acquired much money by the discover of oil under his pastures, came in an asked for silk shirts. The clerk got hir down some at s12 each. "Hain't ye gc no better onesT' was the demand. Hun, ing around the clerk found some price at SIS. I'll take three," and the ez rustler threw down a hundred dola bill. Anxious to make hay while tn sun shone, the clerk as he did up tn s45 worth of shirts, ramarked that the had some stunning collars and othe neckwear. Don't want 'en," was tn prompt reply: Never wore a collar i Thy life and aint goin' to begin, now That story seems to me highly signif cant.
 Denver paper is responsible for tn tale of the grocery store which, findin grapes plenty and cheap. stocked up wit