Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 69, 16 January 1910 — Page 10
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIU3I AND SUX-TEL.EGRA3I, SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1910. LE JIM WILL
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If our shoes weren't better than ordinary shoes we could not guarantee their workmanship and wear. The prices we are quoting are such that no comparison is needed as to real savings. We sell our regular lines at greater discounts than other dealers make on broken and odd lots ... Men's $5 Shoes now sell for $3.95 Men's $4 Tramp Last - $3.45 -Men's $5 Tans, M. & K. make $2.50 Wines and Tans at $1.98 Nettleton $6 Shoes at $3.50 Women's $5 Foster Shoes $3.95 Tans which sold at $4 $1.98 Odd lots of $4 and $5 Shoes in Patents, Vici, Velours, etc. Nearly every size. Now $2.50 $1.50 and $1.75 Fur Trimmed Slippers now 98c All $5 Colored Suedes now $2.50
IMs 'Week's Special Boys' High Top Shoes the kind the people who buy them have found to be the best $2.50 and $2.75 grade now going at . . . $1.98 Warm lined Shoes, Rubber Goods; everything in the stores at discounts of from 10 to 50 per cent. Footwear that is good, footwear that is stylish, footwear that must wear and give complete satisfaction all at more than liberal discounts these are what we offer. You can invest your money in no other way where you are sure of such large returns. Cias. I. Fdhnaii
Two Stores
724 Main
S07 Main
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3 PER CENT. OH SAVINGS
WE SELL COAL, DRY WOOD AND COKE Wouldn't that make you warm ? We pride ourselves on quality and prompt delivery Mather Bros. Co.
BEGIN TO STUDY COST OP LIVING
This Will Be Main Scientific
Investigation of the Year By the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
TOUCHES VITAL SPOT
OF AMERICAN NATION
Fll Hue of DOT WATER BOTTLES AND RUBBER GOODS Cough and Cold Remedies that are Guaranteed. CONKEY DRUG CO., Cor. 9th & Main Sts. "U It's Filled at Conkeys. if s Correct.'
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Will Develop Power of Government to Deal With a Partly Political, Partly Economic Question.
(By Jonathan Winfield.) Washington, Jan. 15. The main scientific investigation of 1910 to be conducted by the Department of Agriculture, will be into the problem of the
recent increased cost of living. The inquiry touches a vital spot in the present social fabric of the United States. It will reveal the power of the government machinery to deal with a subject, which is partly political and partly economic; one which is pressing upon the people more and more. Compared to it, other matters of legislation are insignificant, so far as popular interest is concerned. Out of a complicated and fathomless labyrinth of facts and figures, the department of agriculture will be called upon to reach some .conclusions so simple and direct that he who runs may read. Secretary Wilson has for some years held strong convictions on the subject and he intends to concentrate his last months in official harness to the solution of the problem.Contract Labor Law. "I believe that the contract labor law should be amended so that farmers may send to European countries for men to till the soil." he said. "Such legislation would be a good thing for the nation as a whole. If it were tried, however, the farmer would at once meet the strong opposition from labor organizations, which hold tenaciously to the contract labor laws. If these organizations knew what was good for them, however, I believe they would be more than glad to agree to farm labor being hired abroad. Foodstuffs would be cheap
er, because of the Increased production that would result, and none of the labor organizations would be injured in the least. "The farmer certainly is not getting the exorbitant profit out of the beef he raises. The department of agriculture has agents in every state, every country, and in almost every community in the country. They have
been ' given orders to report exhaustively on the cost of production and the returns of sales of milk, wheat, rye, beans, peas, and in fact, all farm products. As fast as we secure these figures we shall compare them with the prices of the same products brought in the cities and towns where they are consumed. We will give the facts and figures to the public. Public Expects Truth. "I believe the public expects this department to make the truth known, and we intend to bring it all out, irrespective of whom it hurts or whom it benefits. I am convinced that the public is compelled to pay a great deal more than it should for nearly
everything it consumes, and believe the figures will bear me out in this regard. "If immigrants only knew where their best interests lay, they would turn to the farm instead of the factory, the shop, and the mine. The farmer's life Is not, by any means, as dreary as it is supposed to be by those who know nothing of it. The average farm laborers is today well paid.
Nearly all the really hard work is done by machinery. So far as his social
status is concerned, he is far better off than his brother who works in the factory or the mine. He has no temptation or opportunity to spend
the money he makes, and it is only a
matter of a few years before the in
jdustrious sober-minded farm hand I may become a farm owner himself.
"We are attempting to educate the farmer in a scientific way today. We are teaching him intensive farming. When the times comes in the future, when every farmer will obtain the biggest crops possible out of the soil at his command, a great step will be made, and the cost of life's necessit
ies will be kept within bounds, but
unless the men handling the food that the people eat are content with, decent profits, I am afraid that the cost of living will never be what it should
and what the consumer has a right to demand.
Is Another Factor. A surplus In the number of distri
butors and purveyors of food is another factor in the situation we have to contend with. There is no doubt we
have far too many retailers. The more purveyors the higher the prices will be, because all dealers long ago quit
trying to get business by cutting prices. An enormously expensive retail
system has been developed. Services
that customers desire for their accom
modation are costly to them. They
want special delivery of goods perhaps by special trip, and this requires at least one horse, man and wagon.
They want the market man also to send a man to their dwellings to take
orders.
Secretary Wilson has the courage to say that he believes it would be better were the number of producers
Increased, and the number of distrib
uters correspondingly decreased.
Figures showing a steady but comparatively small increase in the cost
of living, have been published by the
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We LHIave Ever LHlad Owing to the inclemency of the weather the past week, many found it impossible to venture forth. For their benefit, we will continue this unusual selling Two CuOoire ays Monday and Tuesday, Mind You ! With even greater reductions. Bargains such as these should not last the first day, yes not even the first few hours of this extraordinary wind up. 19 HIGH GRADE TAILORED SUITS worth $25.00 to 16 MISSES' COATS, novelty materials, 10, 12, 14 yrs., $40.00, in plain and fancy dark novelties, latest regular price $5.00 to $12.50, Grand Final $2.49 weaves and styles, Grand Final $ 1 1.98 CH'E CH ftft 14 HIGH GRADE TAILORED SUITS, worth $18.00 to materials, worth $3.50 to $6.50, Grand Final 5 1.75 $22.50, dark, plain and novelty weaves, Grand ONE-PI fCE DRESSES, pretty wool materials and styles, Finai $7.98 worth $15-00 t0 SI8-50 Grand $7.49 LADIES' snUSH'lloVELTr DRESSES worth $20' to $22'50' 6rand Final 9-90 all go during this Grand Final 1 PRICE DRESSES worth $25.00 to $27.50, Grand Final $12.49
WE DON'T KNOW how the weather man will serve us for Monday and Tuesday, BUT WE DO KNOW that the last two days of our Cloak Clearance will witness the most unusual, extraordinary price reductions of high grade garments this city has ever known.
Lee
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bureau of labor of the department of commerce and labor for years past. The statistics were based on the wholesale price of commodities. The department of Agriculture has now taken up the question of retail prices, and has already shown evidence to the effect that the retailer is the man who has been boosting the prices.
Secretary is Convinced. Secretary Wilson is convinced there
are combinations among retailers that are fully as effective in raising prices
as are those known to exist among manufacturers and jobbers, who are
responsible for the paradox of causing oranges to he as high in price in
California as they are thousands of miles away. But this question hardly comes within the scope of his depart
ment, and he is chiefly interested in showing why the cost of living has increased so rapidly in the last few years, and in locating th responsibility.
There has been an increase in the i
value of land upon which cattle may j
be raised, and an increase in the price
of corn, due in part to a wider use of
that cereal. The relative reduction of
meat compared with population during the past seventy years is another factor in increasing the price of onethird of the distary list of the American. The wholesalers are not absolved from blame by the secretary. They have promoted many schemes which are in spirit, if not in letter a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The "free deal" game is one which broke up the department stores practice of cutting the price just a little under the small retailer. The wholesalers have played an important part
in helping the retailers maintain pri
ces at an artificial high level.
a stipulation to the effect that the seals were not to be broken for fifty years. So the curiosity of the scientific world will not be satisfied on the subject until the year 1959.
Ill GRIP OF STORM
Jerome Is Now Strong Liberal
Popular English Novelist Is Greatly in Favor of the Abolition of the House of Lords, He States.
American News Service) Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 13. The schooners M. L. Wetherell and Ada K. Damon, both of Boston, which lie stranded within a few hundred feet of each other, are being hammered to bits by the furious seas that are lashing this section of the Atlantic coast and which threaten untold damage along the local beaches and water front Al
most a score of cottages that were un
dermined by the heavy seas in last month's blizzard stand defenseless in the path of the sweeping tides. More buildings will be damaged than in the last storm.
Miles of the breakwater that protect
ed the cottages from the high tides were washed away in the previous storm and there is absolutely nothing
left to protect them from the storm's violence.
GOLD FOR CHARITY
(American News Service) Calcutta, Jan. 13. Literally his
weight in gold has been given away in
charity by the fabulously wealth Ma
harajah of Nepal. It is a custom
among Indian princes to return thanks for recovery from serious illness by
vowing to give to the poor their weight
in gold, silver or grain, according to
their wealth.
The iDgots of gold representing the Maharajah's weight were immediately
bought by goldsmitcs, and the silver coin paid for them was distributed among a great crowd of beggars and pilgrims.
ROADS Will VICTORY
(American News Service)
Springfield. Ills., Jan. 13. The railroads of Illinois won their first victory in their fight against the two cent fare rate today when Judge Humphrey overruled the demurrer of the attorney general in which the jurisdiction of the federal court was questioned, and held that the temporary injunction granted the receivers of the Chicago. Peoria and St. Lou's railroad against the enforcement of the provisions of the two cent fare law stand until further ordered by the court.
(By Herbert Temple.) London, Jan. 13. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, the popular novelist, has come out strongly in favor of the liberal par
ty and the abolition of the House of Lords. In the course of a speech to an audience of workingmen he said the other day: "For the first time in the history of England, the lords have interfered with finance; for the first time in the history they have demanded the right to levy your taxes. Once give the
lords the right to dictate finance, you are giving them the right to throw out the government whenever they like. They say: 'We are only sending it back to the people: they are the authority.' It sounds simple, but it costs every man who fights an election, 3,0X. "Ninety-nine out of every hundred rich men belong to the Conservative party. The Conservatives don't mind an election every year they can afford it; but the Liberal members and
the Labor members cannot afford it.
A Liberal government could not possl
bly take office again; it would be ab
solutely at the mercy of the House of
Lords, which is Conservative, and will always remain Conservative. If you give them the right to do it this time, they will do it again: they will throw
out any budget thev dislike. "If you should return the Liberal or Labor party, they could not produce any budget that they knew would pass the Lords, and you can only please people, as far as money is concerned, by not touching their pockets. The result would be. that it would be absolutely useless to vote for any but Conservatives. There would be no competition; there would be a monopoly.
"In America there is only one butcn-
er's shop, that belotging to the Amer-
ican Meat Trust. There is only one alternative for the American house wife when the price is too high; she
strikes, and goes without meat foe two or three weeks. Then the com
mittee of the big trust meet In Chicago.
and say they must lower the price, sj
little; then the houswife goes on buy ing and the price is soon raised again." Workmen on the street car lines at Abbey Wood unearthed several large, stones, which formed part of the wall of Lesness Abbey, which was founded) in 1178. The abbey was one of tba richest in England before the Reformation. Members of .the Woolwich Antiquarian Society have discvovrred the foundations of the abbey church and the basn of many pillars, a inertia in the air and then settle plored. A meeting of wholesale clothiers In Lancashire was held In Manchester today, to consider the Trade Boards Act. which aims at stopping sweating in the clothing trades. It was decided to recommend the Board of Trade to establish a minimum
rate of wages for the whole of the. trade. Later in the month a conference will be held in London between representatives from all the wholesale clothlnff centers In the United Kingdom and Board of Trade officials, to deal with certain suggested modifications in the Act. Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, London, the Eastern Countries, Bris. tol and Scotland will be represented.
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A STRANGE LEGACY
(American News Service) Vienna, Jan. 13. A mysterious legacy has been bequeathed by Prince Rudolph Liechtenstein, first lord chamberlain of the imperial court who died sotne months ago. It is in the form of a case of documents securely sealed, and supposed to be of great historic interest. It was left to the Vienna Academy of Science. In announcing the legacy, the president, Prof. Suss, said that there was
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