The high cost of living is a serious proposition. Truly, but food scarcity has not yet reached a point where an embargo, with all its destructive consequences, is justified. If the embargo is considered from a purely domestic standpoint, it is not required to save our people from suffering. It is declared, great suffering would be occasioned in Europe, and we would arouse resentments and enmities which would be reflected in post-bellum difficulties and embarrassments. Of course, the farmers who produce food crops will not consent to be singled out for this treatment. The National Grange, which may be assumed to represent their sentiment, already has registered a protest. The Orange thinks if there must be an embargo, it should start with munitions of war. If there is an embargo on wheat, there would seem to be no good reason why there should not be one on cotton. 