Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — TOO MUCH GOLD PRODUCED. [ARTICLE]

TOO MUCH GOLD PRODUCED.

BsW to bwCuuzc of High Prices and Labor Unroot london, Eng.-—An interesting suggestion la made in regard to the increased cost of bring, which, like an earth wave, has sent a tremor throughout Europe, causing food riots in Franoe, aa outcry against the butchers In Belgium, and protests against the dearer meat and milk in Germany, while it Is largely responsible for the labor unrest In England. This suggestion js that the enorhas upaet the balance of prices and that the world has not yet shaken itself down to a true adjustment Statistics show conclusively that in England, on the Continent, and in North America nearly all the commqper and most necessary articles of food have been steadily riping In price since the century opened. Meat, especially bacon, in England the poor man's favorite food; milk, bread, and sugar all cost more. It la calculated that there is a 10 per cent increase in the weekly budget of household expenses in England. Prof. Chapman at a meeting of the British Association predicted that the next three yeara would be an era of strikes, due to the fact that, whereas up to 1896 the cost of-Jivlng had been tolling, it had since then been rising.