Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-08-29

and what you tell me, am beginning
to think that when a farmer has any.
thing to sell he gets a better price for
it now than he did in 1896, but how
about it when it comes to paying for
the things he buys? Does he not have
to pay more for everything that he
buys?"
TO a certain extent. father, that is
true" replied John, ''but l believe
that an investigation of the facts
shows that while the farmer has no
doubt to pay little more for what he
buys, he gets it back in the increased
prices he receives for his commodities.
as compared with the Democratic
years of the past decade. | remember
to have read recently an article i'm
which was compared the values of the
soil products of Iowa as shown by
the report of Director Sage for the
past ten years, with the increased
prices on such articles as the farmer
usually purchases as shown by bull
letin No. p, issued by the national de-
partment of labor and edited by that
eminent statistican. Carroll ID. Wright
This article showed that while it took
Sll6.2O today to purchase what 800
would buy in July, 1897. in the way of
articles that farmer purchases. yet at
the same time comparing the value of
the farm products of Iowa Dec. 1, 1896.
with Dee. 1, 1899, the farmer receives
$l4o. 60 today for the same amount of
produce that brought him but 500 i'm
1896. SO that while it takes SIG. 20 |
more today to buy what might have
been bought in 1896 for 500. the |
farmer has received $40 so more on |
every 500 worth of produce sold. |
Therefore he has really gained 500 so |
on every 500 worth of crops as COM
pared with the purchasing power Of !
the same crops i'm 1896.
Dan McKay's Hog story.
Il overheard a little story the other
day which l think puts the matter
very neatly. There is an old Demo
cratic farmeyalned Dan Mckay in
Louisa coun0 lie voted for McKin-
ey four yearf6b and in consequence
ais Democratic neighbors have never
'orgiven him. One day last week he
brought load of hogs to town and
litter selling them. purchased bill of
lumber with which to construct a hog
ack. After he had purchased the lum-
Der he went around to see his Demo
ratio friends and in speaking of the
lew rack. said: Il bought some lum-
'er for new hog rack today. |
fought the same kind of lumber four
ears ago for 81 80 and today it cost
ne So. no. 'Ah, ha. said one of his !,
friends, we thought {
Ou'd find out pretty soon that this
these Republicans are
owling about is all fake. You see
on paid over So 90 more for the same
Material now than you did in go 4
now all that said Mckay, but
old my hogs in. '96 for SO 80 per 100
ounds. and today got s.. 90 for them,
D made nearly enough on every 100 4
ounds of hog to pay the difference i'm |
ne cost of my lumber / guess pros {
Gritty suits me: It's all right after ALL :
Before we end this lesson / want to !
I'll you what l saw in one of the Fl
ewspapers at the Iowa State Register 1
lice when was looking over the mar
ct reports. picked up the Keosau-
ia Republican and found i'm it an j
EN- something like this. 1t stated I
lere was big crib of corn in Jackson
Van Buren, county, which :
'ntained $4,000 bushels of '96 corn. 4
his was sold recently to local feeders
III the corn was so good that it II
ought 40 cents .bushel. or $1,000 y
II that one crib of corn. Now | find =
: little investigation that when that =
rn was cribbed corn was worth ex-
'tly IA cents per bushel i'm Van Buren,
unity, so that this corn would be
orth then but 2,52O, and the differ
zee between $500 and $1,000 is the
licences of prosperity in that corn.
ut father this has been pretty long
ssOn. so we had better adjourn un-
tomorrow
JULIAN w. RICHARDS. W