Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Wilson's View Correct. [ARTICLE]

Wilson's View Correct.

In your issue of July 9 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is quoted as follows: “The high cost of living is worldwide, existing in low tariff countries as well as in high tariff nations. The causes are threefold —the increased supply of gold, the enormous shifting of population from tht? country districts to the cities, which decreases the number of producers and increases the number of consumers, and the third and chief cause is shortening the hours of labor, thus decreasing the production ana increasing the consuming capacity.” This is all true as far as he goes. But Dr. Butler misses the very point of the argument, as applied to the United States, when he fails to say that the excessively high tariff in the United States is directly responsible for the enormous and hurtful shifting of population from the country districts to the cities. This it is that is making labor so scarce In the country districts and decreasing so largely what our food products ought to be in comparison to our ever-increasing total population. Hence Governor Wilson is entirely correct when he says that the high cost of living and the excessively high . tariff are interminably linked together.—Letter In New York Herald.