The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-10
LOreauville Notes.

From time to time Mayor A. g.
Smoke, Secretary Of the LoIeauvillt
Chamber Of Commerce, reads arti
Giles prepared by him, at the meet
ing of that organization 10 his little
city.
We print below the one read al
their last meeting, which we are
sure will be OF interest to all our
readers.
The Civic organic alton in our
neighboriDg town "up the Teche''
appears to be progressing nicely,
an they have added several new
members recently and have fine
prospects for reaching the hundred
mark in the near future.
The article follows:
Mr.. Retail Merchant OF the Town
Of Loreauville.
Gentlemen:
The high cost Of living has
become almost the entire thought
OF the American people and while
this is the case yet there are but
Few Of consuming public who try to
y find the cause of the III. @ j..
Most Of them are content to Cry
II q. l. and let 1t 60 without
investigation.
Gentlemen, ! have searched for
the cause of the high cost Of living,
and have found four contributing
causes, IN fact | believe them to
be the entire cause; they are as
follows.
1sr. Urgency of the world for
raw and finished products
End. Lessened production.
3rd. Lack Of transpot tatIon of
our perlshable products.
4th. Extravaganza.
Let us consider the items an
they appear in their order; Ist We
have the urgent demand for raw
land finished goods, this IL and was
bsused by the great war which We
Ihave jest passed through; when
the war was declared we immedi
ately caused our energies to be
turned to the maDufac lure of the
implements of war a. we'll az to
build up an army sufficient TO
overcome the obstacles IN the way
TO peace; this naturally took the
men out Of the production of the
necessities of life, and iD conse
qnence, we have, long since, con
sumed our surplus; this brings Us
to the second item of contributing
causes, lessened production.
The producing classes today are
in feverish nervous state, caused
from the unsettled condition of
the labor market. Labor IL un-
willing today TO concede anything
except high wages, this in turn IL
caused by the demand from the
manufactures Of Injuries for more
and more laborers ut exceptional
high wages, this naturally leaves
the producer Of the necessities
without the necessary help 10 pro-
duce the maximum amount Of |
goods or produce that he would |
other wise be able TO produce; this
then coupled with the urgent
demand on the markets of today
causes the high prices TO prevail.
We naturally depend on the farmer
for our food and clothes and he
today ls the most unfortunate of |
all of the producers; unfortunate
because of the shortage Of labor
and the means of transportation,
the shortage of these two elements
necessary TO his success has caused
the loss of millions of dollars
worth of rerishable goods, this
again enters into the cost of living
md canses the prevailing prices.
These contributing causes to II |
j. l.. are leading us, In q rush, 10
me of the most disastrous condi.
ions that can befall any nation,
sxTRAvAGANCE Extravaganza
Ices not necessarily mean the
eckless spending of money; 1t
lao enters where man refuses to
rork unless he can get in wages
ust what be desires; gentlemen |
ave had men to tell me that they
onld not work for 81 so per day
nd live, yet they do not work and 8
eem 10 live just the same, and d
entlemen this is one Of the worst
Drms Of extravagance; It is 40
xtravagance that leads to the
Undermining Of the laws Of the a
md and to the debasing Of poster liz
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