Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — How to Secure Economic Freedom. [ARTICLE]

How to Secure Economic Freedom.

The standard of living in any country is measured by the difference between the cost of what the people have to buy and what they have to sell. It is to their interest, therefore, to keep that difference as wide as possible. Most people have labor to sell, and they have food and clothing m buy. To widen their margin of living they should seek to decrease the price of food and clotbing and to increase tbe price of labor . How are they to do tbe former? By cutting down tbe tariff which shots out foreign goods and enables American manufacturers to “trustify" their products and thus exact a higher price for them than they are naturally worth How are they ‘to increase the price of labor? T By voting for such legislation as will compel the utilization ot tbe country s vast resources. This will increase tbe demand for labor and consequently send up wages. Thus the margin of living is widened at both sides Both these policies if carried out will secure to every man economic freedom. Heroic Treatment. ■■ Little Willie wore his stocking inside out. a habit shocking. To correct his naughty whim Mother turned the hose on him —Woman's-Home Companion. Fresh. “I think that telegraph operator fc» the freshest thiug I ever'ran across." “What did he do?" ' “Read over the message I was send- * lug to my husband."— Pittsburg Press. Defined., “The isles of Greece, the isles of Greecel" 1 know at last what Byron means—- ▲ bunk of pork as soft as fleece Surrounded by a sea of beans. —Cleveland Leader. Compensation. “Actors are quarrelsome people.” “But. then, you know, they are great lor making up.'*—Baltimore American. The Hired Girl. Though she may be a greening. She's quick to perceive. When if looks like housecleaning Bbe gives notice to leave. —judaa