Cost of Living and Rising Prices Address on cost of living and rising prices, ?early 1930s. States that these are the most important home issues at present time, criticises the government for being unaware of the depth of the problem and for offering ineffective solutions to it. Proposes Liberal Party solution: '... we should now put a check on rising prices of foodstuffs and ... the quickest way to do this is by reduction in tariffs and quotas. And we cannot expect a Conservative Government which attributes recent improvements to tariffs to see this.' 1930s-1940s