"cheap Prices" Again

Contraeting prices at the opening of this year wlth tliop o' January 1, 1891, Bradstreot's o Ji ïr.iary 11, 1896, save the tollowíi g list oí those fchat ai'o liislier now : Beef, barrel, Reflned petroleum. Ham, Napllia Clieese, Kosln, Mackerel, Nails. Molasses, Sprnce, Peas, Aluin. Jiaisins, Nitrleaold, s A. hules. Sulphui ie acid, Hemloek leatber, Alcohol. Stik, Tobacco, rt'inisyl v;mia inko, Hay. Crude petroleum, Cottqnseed. Those higher this year than on January 'l, 1892, are as follows : Beef, Naptha, Mackerél, Linseedoi!, Coffee, Cottonseed oll, Sugar, Castor 011, Molasses, Olive oll, Peas, Nalla, Onlons, Ulass, Apples, Aluni, S. A. Hides, Carbolic acid, Hemlock leathei', Nitrie acid, Union leuther, Sulpurio acid, Cotton, Alcohol. Raw silk. Opium, Southern sheetlngs, Quinine, Pennsylvantacoke, Rubber, Crude petroleum, Tobacco, Refined Petroleum, (Jottouseed , The relative advances in quotatione of staples to-day as compared wiih priees on January 1, 1893, '94 and '95, rcspectively, may be shown by the followlag liists : Thoso whicli are higher now 1h:in one, tivo and tliree years ago : Mackerel, molasses, suger, rr.iins, Buenos Ayers hides, hemlock leather, Eastern shoetlngs, eouthern plg Uon, quicksilver. Oouthern coke, Pennylvania coke, crude petroleum, re:incd Petroleum, naptha, rosiii, nails, alum, carbolic acid, nitiic acid, sulplwric acid, quinine and rubber. Additional, higher now than two and one years ago : Peas, pearrats, cotton, southern sheretings, ilk, antliracite pig iron, copper, lead, turpentine, glass, spruce, alcohol and tobáceo. Oomment is unnecessaiy. We leave democratie editors to explain how the people earning "cheaper" wages, have been bonefited by these "cheaper" h-ee trede priees.