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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
“Cost of High Living,’’ Subject of 
Most Profitable Lecture. 
At the regular meeting of the 
Manchester Woman’s club Tuesday 
afternoon, Mr. Frank G. Spear ad- 
dressed over 90 women on ‘‘The 
Cost of High Living’’. Mr. Spear’s 
lecture contained a wealth of inform- 
ation, told in an unusually concise 
form and was voted by the mem- 
bers of the club one of the most 
profitable as well as enjoyable ad- 
dresses of the season. 
The speaker supplemented his 
talk by declaring himself to be in 
favor of women suffrage, which, he 
believes, is inevitable. With the 
coming of so many new responsibili- 
ties for women, it behooves them to 
interest themselves in the topics of 
the day, prominent among which is 
the high cost of living. Women are 
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the purchasing power of the coun- 
try, buying, as they do, 95 percent 
of all the goods sold. It is interest- 
ing to know that this fact is so well 
recognized that advertisers write 
their ads, wholly with a view to at- 
tracting women. Managers of stores 
know just how much trade their ads 
will draw from women. If women 
are coming into politics they must 
know the points of the business, es- 
pecially the weak points, which the 
men have not been able to master. 
In this connection the speaker said 
that of the men who go into business 
for themselves, 90 percent go into 
bankruptey before reaching the age 
of 65. 
‘““Has the cost of living really 
gone up?’’ said Mr. Spear. ‘‘Most 
certainly it has. And I have a cheer- 
ful message for you: It is going up 
even higher than it has!’’ 
The speaker gave as the first rea- 
son for the increased cost of living 
in this country, the tariff. If Man- 
made clothes under similar condit- 
ions, the obvious suggestion would — 
be for us to sell our shoes in Salem _ 
and for Salem merchants to sell 
their clothes here. If, however, 
someone built a wall a mile high be-— 
tween the two towns and said, ““No 
goods shall pass here without the © 
payment of a tax,’’ what would be | 
the result? An immediate increase 
in the price of merchandise. The 
tariff has precisely the same effect. 
If the tariff puts the prices up, it al- — 
so keeps up a high wage scale. Living | 
in Europe i is not nearly so expensive 
as in America, but neither are ee 
so high. The result is that the Doom 
classes of Europeans have little 
chance for enlightenment, much lessill 
for comforts and refinements. Until — 
we are willing to accept these stan-— q 
dards here, let us not do away with 
the tariff, for when that goes down, 
wages are bound to go down also. — 
Politics has nothing to do with the 
question; it is the eternal one of sup- _ 
ply and demand. bd 
The trusts also interfere with the 
laws of supply and demand in their — 
combining of corporations, which oe 
sults in high prices, but the trusts — 
also prevent failures and business 
panics. One man in business for him- k 
self may make a grave mistake; on — 
a corporation board there is almost. 
sure to be one sane man and in a 
trust, which is a combination of cor- — 
porations, there will be several clear- 
headed men to avert disaster. It is — 
significant that the prices of gaso- — 
line and kerosene have advanced — 
since the breaking up of the Stan-— 
dard Oil company. Trusts, there- 
fore, are not wholly undesirable as — 
they put stability into business. 
Trade unions were Mr. Spear’s — 
next topic. They have undoubtedly — 
been a tremendous contribution to 
the welfare of the common people, 
but they may also be a disturbing 
element and the speaker gave an ex- 
ample. A manufacturer has plenty 
of business, he is hiring a large force 
of workers, everything is going 
smoothly and he is delivering his 
orders and make a profit. Sud- 
denly someone has a grievance and 
without warning, the whole force 
stops work and walks out, leaving 
the manufacturer tied hand and 
foot. Unable to deliver his goods, 
he cannot meet his financial obliga- 
tions and he fails. Each failure is a 
rock east into the sea of business 
