Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Always room at the top. Look at the cost of living.—Wall Street Journal. Prohibition has fairly taken some people’s breath away.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Only statesmen of the loftiest vision can investigate high prices.— Brooklyn Eagle. * Maybe we can keep warm next winter 'by burning our bills. —Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. And to think that a few years ago the possession of money was proof of wealth. —Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. The worst of these street-car tieups is that with shoes at the present prices nobody can afford to walk. —— Albany Argus. The ultimate consumer hopes that at least he is now paying the ultimate high prices.-—Little Rock (Ark) Gazette. A few months ago they told us that labor won the war. And we are beginning to understand that. — Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.

The excuse for the packers is that they are efficient. Germany had the same excuse.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. We object to this common practice of referring to the profiteer as a Judas. Judas had the grace to hang himself. —Indianapolis (Ind.) Daily Times. China realizes that the league will grant justice to every nation strong enough to win it in a fair fight.— Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont Under the leather profiteers’ plan to educate the public to $25 shoes, many of us would be forced to grow up in ignorance.—New York World. The war on high prices can also be designated as one for the purpose of making the world safe for democracy. —Des Moines Register. The editor of L’Oeuvre, Paris, says the Yank never will forgive France for the manner in which her shopkeepers trimmed him. Still, he may forgive and forget after he has been trimmed at home. —Peoria Transcript.

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