the law for Capital Punishment re- 
mains on the statute books as a 
deterent to crime, the public may 
be spared the debasing exploiting 
of this severe penalty of the law by 
unscrupulous and. money grabbing 
journalists. . 
High Cost of Living. 
Every one has an explanation for 
the high cost of living. It is not sur- 
prising to have new reviews of the 
present condition presented to the 
people. The City Wide Congress of 
the City of Baltimore has tried its 
hand and has given the following 
reasons for the high cost of living: 
Increased supply of gold. 
Price control of exchanges and 
agreements. 
Tariff on foodstuffs and other 
produets. 
Abuse of cold storage to help cor- 
ner markets. 
Decreased amount of labor on 
farms and consequent inerease in 
wages. 
Decrease of truck farms and farm- 
“ing around the city. 
Exeessive profits by middlemen, 
due to too many small shops and too 
much handling between producer 
and consumer, 
Too much purchase on eredit at 
advanced prices. 
Inadequate transportation to prox- 
-imate farming districts, especially 
in winter. 
Bad roads and inadequate repair 
of same. 
Short weights and inadequate con- 
trol of scales and measures. 
Abuse of patent laws. 
Architects making no provision in 
modern houses for storage of goods. 
Telephones, resulting in ordering 
on eredit without bargaining for 
price. 
Too high charges and improper 
conditions of our city markets. 
Inadequacy of facilities. 
Growing luxuriousness of the peo- 
ple, which eliminates careful, busi- 
nesslike housekeeping and shopping. 
There are however two self evi- 
dent reasons for the high cost of liv- 
ing which are overlooked or omit- 
ted in the survey. Both of these 
are paramount and exert far wider 
influence than any of the above men- 
tioned causes. The two are, the high 
price of labor and the raising of the 
standard of living. If the old wage 
scales were maintained and starva- 
tion wages continued prices could 
be kept lower. Increased wages 
means an increased charge for the 
product of manufacturing and the 
public must pay the bill. The high 
prices are not an unmixed evil. No 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
one wishes to see any reduction in 
wages to industrial workers. <An- 
other widespread cause for the high 
cost of living is the increased needs 
of the citizens of the country. Peo- 
ple are unwilling to live in the same 
way that the earlier generations 
lived. If a modern workman was 
willing to live on the same plane of 
life as the peasants of Europe he 
could amass his small fortune and 
grow independent. But fortunately 
the standard of living is not all for 
economy but for efficiency. Economy 
is valuable in that it conserves and 
uses every valuable possession of 
time, energy, ability or strength. Be- 
fore the judgment seat of efficiency, 
economy must be tried. The present 
generation demands a higher mode 
of living and this modern social up- 
lift causes an increased cost in liv- 
ing. But neither of these are unde- 
sirable. Higher wages and a higher 
standard of life and higher costs 
for living are much more desirable 
than low wages, low standards of 
life and small cost of living. A great 
social movement that must even- 
tually benefit all is going on. The 
higher price of living is only a sym- 
tom of the upward movement. In the 
end society will be benefited but un- 
til then many must suffer. No great 
end ever has been gained without 
sacrifice and even pain. When 
machinery was introduced for the 
first time thousands of laborers were 
thrown out of employment but. so- 
ciety gained. It has ever been thus. 
Every one rues the higher cost but 
no one is willing to sacrifice higher 
standards of living for lower costs. 
A Logical Position 
The republican voters of Massa- 
chusetts can not lose sight of the 
fact that the delegation from Massa- 
chusetts is still in dispute and that 
eight of the republican delegates are 
in doubt and will remain in doubt 
until the committee on credentials 
has made its decision at the National 
Convention. Mr. Roosevelt has re- 
pudiated any claim to the delegates 
in an endeavor to be consistent with 
his doctrine that the will of the peo- 
ple should rule. The state definitely 
and without equivocation expressed 
a voting preference for Mr. Taft and 
by all legitimate reasoning the dele- 
gates are his. Congressman Gard- 
ner has taken a logical position when 
he claims, that in the event of a dis- 
trict preferential vote is recorded 
for either candidate and the oppos- 
ing delegates are elected, to be con- 
sistent with the claims of the party 
leaders the same rule should operate 
in the districts as is used to settle 
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the dispute concerning the delegates 
at large. What is a just measure and 
rule to apply in the whole state cer- 
tainly is just and consistent in the 
districts. Mr, Gardner’s position is 
honorably taken and logically main- 
tained. 
Who is morally accountable for 
the death of that young man who 
was given an opportunity to go up 
into the air to try the parachute 
without having had previous exper- 
lence, to satisfy the demands of a 
sensation seeking crowd? Bull bait- 
ing is tame sport to the brutality of 
such a display in America, in Massa- 
chusetts and on Sunday at that!!! 
The Associated Advertiser’s elub 
has gone on record as favoring truth- 
ful advertising as the secret of good 
advertising. Honesty is always the 
best policy, in advertising. What 
would Diogenes say if he had found 
his way to the clubs annual conven- 
tion. 
Banks operating a life imsurance 
The householder may now rejoice 
over the coal question. It is appar- 
ent that the strike is practically 
settled. The probability of four 
years of peace over the coal ques- 
tion is not undesirable. 
Dr. Rowley’s attack on the Rainey 
pictures is well taken. There is 
enough of beauty in nature without 
exploiting the brutality of man in 
a moving picture to the harm of 
plastic young minds. 
The Unitarians have taken Boston. 
The annual Meeting of the Ameri- 
can Unitarian Association is in ses- 
sion. The Transcendentalists are 
back to the old home. 
The Public Sewer and Sidewalk 
policies of the City of Beverly are 
not consistent. 
Chicago, Baltimore, Washington? 
