INCREASE IN THE COST OF LIVING
Government Statistics Show That
All Food Stuff is Higher
Than Since IHW
“Retail price* of food in 1905
were at the highest point during
the sixteen year period beginning
with the year 1H90 and ending
with 1905,” says a government
bulletin just made public by the
Depot * >ent of Commerce and La
bor. ‘ The average price of 23 of
the 3b articles,” continues the re
port, “included in this compila
tion were higher in 1905 than in
1904. and the price of every arti
ole included in the compilation ex
cepting cofree and prunes was
higher in 1905 than in 1896 the
year of lowest prices during the
last sixteen years.
“But,” says the report, “the
average wages per hour in 1905
were 21.5 per cent higher than in
1894, the year of lowest wages
during the period covered, and
weekly earnings were 16.7 per
cent, higher. The purchasing pow
er of an hour’s wages was greater
in 1905 than in any other year
covered by this investigation, be
ing 7.7 per cent greater than in
1891. the year of lowest wages,
and 1.3 greater than in 1896, the
year of lowest retail prices. The
purchasing power of a week's
wages in 1905 was 3.5 per cent
greater than 1894, but 2.7 percent
less than in 1896.”
Continuing the report says:
“The advance in bacon since 1896
has been 43.3 per cent, the ad
vance in Irish potatoes 43.1 per
cent, the advance in eggs 41.8 per
cent, the advance in dry or pick
led pork 30 per cent, the advance
in flour 29.3 per cent, the advance
in corn meal 28.6 per cent. The
advance in food when each of the
SO articles is given a weight ac
cording to its consumption in the
family of a working man has been
17.7 per cent since 1896 and 12.3
percent when compared with* the
ten-year period from 1890 to 1899.”
The figures furnished by the de
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: south central states, namely, Ar
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Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas,
is greater than in any other sec
tion of the country. The retail
prices of food are cheaper in the
West than in any other section of
the country. •
BE HONEST
The father who sends his boy
out into the world with this ad
vice, “Get money; get money hon
estly if you can, hut get money,”
is but advising him *to travel the
road to ruin.
It is hard at best for us to do
right at all times. It is hard to
deal justly and honest. It is hard
to pull up stream, to breast the
current, to contend with the storm,
not to look right nor left, but to
, travel in the straight and narrow
path of duty and right. Our na
ture is carnal and our hearts are
prone to think wrong and do
wrong.
It is easy to float with the tide
to go with the crowd, to do as
the world does. Hat Oh! how
hard it is to face the world and do
right, be absolutely honest and
just. 'Fhe 1h).v who starts out in
world to make an honest, honor
able man has no easy task. It will
take all the manliness of his nature
to do it but the reward is worth it.
What is sweeter than to feel and
to know that you have dealt hon
'estly and justly with your fellow
men; and what you have has been
made honestly that ro widow or
1 orphan is suffering hardships or
privations as the result of your
rascality and injustice: that no
man, woman or child can justly
charge that you have defrauded
them out of a cent. To our mind
this is happiness. Clean hands,
an honest heart and a feeling void
of offense, hatred, envy and ma
lice for any living man or woman
is the best religion and .safest pass
port from earth to heaven. It is
worth all the money in the world.
Yet the living of such a life does
not necessarily mean that .you
shall be poor. Some of the best
men we have ever known have
been among the wealthiest.
Some of the wealthiest men in
the world have gained every cent
they have strictly by honest meth
ods.
Don’t be honest just because it
is best the policy, but because it is
manly, because it is God-like.
The noblest work of God is an
honest man, and the boy who
would rather be honest than rich,
will be rich before he dies.
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DAVIS ENDORSES BRYAN'S VIEWS
1 _
Says Bryan is Right on Federal
Ownership of Railroads and
Raps Senator Jones.
Governor Davis gave out a state
ment Friday to the effect that
there was nothing in the report!
sent out from Memphis that he;
was snubbed by Senator Carmack;
of Tennesse while in Memphis last;
week to meet Mr. Bryan. Gover
nor Davis admitted, however, that
they saw each other, bat would
not discuss the subject, further
; than to say there was nothing in
it.
There is said to be ill feeling
between Governor Davis and Sen
ator Carmack, growing out of the
fact that Governor ! >avis gave out
a statement favoring former Gov
ernor Bob Taylor of Tennessee for
the United States ‘Senate to suc
ceed Carmack. An Associated
Press dispatch from Memphis
i Thursday said that Senator Car
1 mack refused to shake hands with
Governor Davis when introduced
by friends at Union station in
Memphis. Senator Carmack turn
ing and walking away when < rov
er nor Davis’ hand was offered.
ENDORSES FEDERAL OWNER
SHIP OF RAILROADS
Governor DavD endorses the
Bryan idea of federal ownership
of railroads. “Bryan is right
when he says that the only solu
tion for the control of the railroad
question is federal and state con
trol of trunk lines,’' he said. “1
am heartily in sympathy with his
views, and 1 think that his declar
ations have won him many friends.
He will be nominuo i by the Dem
ocrats and will be elected two
years hence.”
THINKS JONES IS WRONG
Governor Djv s disapproves of
the advice that former Senator
i James lv Jones of Arkansas is giv
ing Bryan on the railroad question.
; He said:
‘Monos has led Bryan through
I two political graven ards by bis ad
vice, and 1 think it i- time for him
to go away back and sit down. He
is now attompiing to assume the
role of dictator, and tells Bryan
1 that his federal ownership of rail
roads is a dead issue and will have
to be dropped. Jones’ advice is
very poor, lie could not be elect
ed cqjistable in Arkansas,”—Ar
kansas G?z°tte.
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electrician, was electrocuted. He
went undey a street car of the Wal
nut Ridge-11 oxie line to do some
work and came in contact with a
live wire. Death was instantan
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