High Cost of Living and Unrest
By Editor
An editorial in the "Wall Street Journal" not long ago discussed the large annual governmental expenditure in France, giving the figures of the constantly increasing national debt. A concluding sentence of the article says, "It is difficult to believe that these large expenditures have nothing to do with the increased cost of living, felt in France with scarcely less severity than in this country, and already the underlying cause of lawless demonstrations." The "high cost of living" and "lawless demonstrations" are things that have to be met in all parts of the world. They are the outgrowth of the workings of the power that a very few men hold in the financial world. And we have not seen the end of it yet. The worst of the conflict lies on before. It is well to keep these conditions and their rapid development in mind, and at the same time we should keep in mind what they signify.