Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — YOUR GROCER BILL AND YOUR BALLOT. [ARTICLE]

YOUR GROCER BILL AND YOUR BALLOT.

It Costs 25.59 For Week's Necessenes; 24 in 1904 The housekeeper and the wage earn er can see ar a clance from these tlx ures vhat the • "high cost of living"’ means under a monopoly-tariff: ACTUAL RETAIL GROCERY PRICES. BEING THE AVERAGE PAID IN NEW YORK. JERSEY CITY AND NEARBY CITIES IN 1904 AND NOW:

o 2 ® u 2 u ?= u S x-c°» C»3— - « E * §~ g g£S 5 S - 191 - O’ ;J ’ J 1904. 1911 Butter .... 27c 37c 7 lbs’ $0 54 SO 74 ,2c - >se 4> lb 06 jib Coffee .... 17c 30c. p* ibs. .25 45 Tea *'Oe 30c. lib. 50 30 Eggs 29c 50c 3 doz 87 150 Sugar ®‘*.c 05fec. 5 tbs. 28 28 Cheese .... 14c. .lie 1 lb .14 20 Prunes .... 08c 12c. 1 th .08 12 Flour (KJtjc 03%c. 1 ibs. .24 1 26 Potatoes .. «0e Jse. 1 pk. 30 3, Codfish ... :oc. He, 1 ib. .10 44 Milk use. lie. 8 qts 64 .88 MOO $5 50

£1904 figures from United States bureau of labor; 1912 quotations from averaging current prices of a score ot retail stores.) Can strict economy reduce the quantity of these staple articles required for a family of live who wish to maintain Cite boiisted "American standard of living?' Let the high protectionists try to do with less if they will. But let them reflect that it is costing them SI 50 a week more than it did eight years ago for S 4 worth of necessaries for the table —37% per cent increase in the span of two presidential terms of Republican '‘prosperity.’' Have YOUR wages. Mr. Voter, kept pace with this advance? Do YOU see any reason for.paying a tariff tax of 35 per cent on eggs or 23 per cent on beef or 63 per cent on sugar? •lood—food alone—costs the average family now 42% per cent of the total family expanse The average cost of food per family in the United States has risen as follows: 1900.......... $314 1904 347 M 2 485 . President Taft vetoed bills reducing the tariff on all such necessaries ot life. \ A vote for Woodrow Wilson is a vote to insure an honest revision of the tariff and a reduction of your grocer bills The whole business of politics is to bring classes together upon a common platform of accommodation and common interest Woodrow Wilson.