Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Can Reduce Cost of Living. [ARTICLE]

Can Reduce Cost of Living.

The promise to reduce the cost of living has been held out so often and so fruitlessly by seekers after office, during the past few years that the • wonder is that we should hear it again. When Governor Foss was i elected for the first time two years j ago it was on the platform that his election would cheapen commodities to the people of Massachusetts. He is now well in his second term and the cost of living is higher than it was at the date of his first inaugural. A gov- ; ernor of Massachusetts has no real power to reduce prices directly. A : president of the United States, standing on a sympathetic national platform, can initiate legislation and gen- . eral policies tending to wipe out some 'of the factors of excessive prices, not high prices. His, platform has behind lit the pledge of legislation to put it in ' operation. .