HIGH PRICES
High Prices—Low Wages HERE is an illustration used by Colliers' to show graphically why the American household finds it difficult to make both ends meet. Notice how rapidly the line representing...
...This is a beautiful illustration of the statement "prices go up the elevator...
...Will they seek to determine whether or not the high protection afforded to certain American industries has been passed along in any measure to the working man...
...And if so to what extent...
...Also it suggests that labor hai not been getting its share of the "protection" which the high tariff barons have been claiming in the name of the American laborer...
...wages toil up the stairs...
...Will the committee now investigating the causes of the present high cost of living look into this matter...
...We opine some very interesting facts would be brought to light...
...Notice how rapidly the line representing rise in prices of necessities climbs upward between the years 1902 and 1910...
...Then observe how painfully slow the other line—the one representing increase in wages—ascends the scale during the same period...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 14
