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108 and at the times they wish. The greatly increased rates, although proportionately less than for many other things, are a restraint. In the subways of New York the congestion is a vexation to the mind and a torture to the body, which is a condition affecting a large part of our population. Municipal transportation everywhere has deteriorated. Out in the country side of New England many tramway lines have been abandoned and people who used to enjoy their convenience no longer are able to do so. On other lines the service that formerly used to be every half hour is now only once an hour. In other parts of the country, on the other hand, there is improved local transportation by motor bus.

I do not think that many persons will dissent from the charge that our present postal service is inferior to what it used to be. So far as I have been able to make personal observations our express service is less prompt, while certainly it is more costly. Is there not in shopping less attention and less celerity of service? Are we not constrained to dispense with the use and enjoyment of many of the articles in our possession owing to the high cost of repairing them? Surely that is true in households whereof I know.

This analysis, which enables us to visualize the position of our classes of people, is quite in line with the statistics of commodity consumptions. Even those figures fall in with the data showing the disturbance of the old balance in the division of the produce of industry, the consequences of mulcting the rich through surtaxes, and the failure to maintain the necessary national rate of saving. It will be hard to escape from the conclusions that the scale of living of the majority of the