The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-08-28
FARNERBRONNATS CHOO!
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.
How Iowa Farmers Have Been Wonder.
fully Benefited Under Repuo-
lican Rule.
Second Lesson.

other lesson in the Evidences of Pros
perity? / remember when / was Il
student at Drake university. one of
the required studies was Evidences of
Christianity. Now l am certain that
the Evidences of Prosperity which 1
shall endeavor to show to you, are as
clearly proven as We're those lessons
which took at the university.
"You will remember our lesson yes
terday closed with a quotation of some
figures from Mr.. Sages report of the
Weather and Crop Service in Iowa.
You will also remember that gave
you table showing the average
prices for farm products on Dec. 1 of
each year of the past decade. Today
dropped into the Office of the Iowa
State Register and looked over a few
of their exchanges for the purpose of
learning what the local market prices
We're the first week in August, this
year. l believe if l had had time
could have found papers from every
county in the state, but / took papers
from 80 counties scattered over the
state so that the average of the fig
ures which l obtained is an absolutely
fair statement of the local markets of
the whole state. The average prices
in the local markets of Iowa the first
week in August, 1900, was as follows:
Iowa Local Market Prices.
Eggs Butter. Wheat Corn. Oats. Cattle. Hogs.
Sc 1875 500 3l1a 1917 s4.95 s465
"You will remember last night in
my figures derived from Mr.. Sages re-
port found the average price of ce-
reals on the LIST of last December to be
as follows: Corn, 23c; wheat, 54c;
oats, 19c. So you see, father there
has been material increase in prices
of cereal products in this state since
the LIST of last December. Comparing
these two statements, we find an in
crease of S11ac per bushel for corn, 61ac
per bushel for wheat, and 15c per bush
ell for oats. Mr.. Sage's report is very
accurate, for it is made up of the aver
age of the reports of some 200 to
300 people, some residing in every
county in the state and the report
which have given you of prices this
week is reasonably correct, because it
is an average of the local market re-
ports printed in the newspapers in 50
of the 80 counties in Iowa. So you
see, father, the good work of prosper
ity is being continued and these fig
ures show an increase in the price of
everything a farmer has to sell.
81 have also looked up the files of
the Iowa State Register to find the
prices in the markets of the commod-
tiles referred to in the above table, at
the same day in 1896, and I find COM
parative statement with 1900 as fol
lows:
~ A Comparison of Prices.
Eggs ter. Whit. Corn. Oats. tie. Hogs.
Aug. 10, 1895. sc loo 45c 19c 14c $3.50 1875
Aug. 10, 1909 1877 6O1s 3l1s 1917 4.95 4.e5
Assuming that the Des Moines
prices were fair average for the state
in August, 1896, you will see that
there is a material increase in prices
received by the farmer for his products
in this state in this year Of prosperity
as compared with that Democratic
year of financial depression, 1896.
ITO carry these comparisons still
further, took pains yesterday to lool
up some figures from the Chicago anG
Omaha papers which l found in the
files of the Iowa state historical de
partment, in charge of Curator Aid
rich. Here l found files of the leading
papers of Iowa as we'll as the leading
dailies of the large cities, dating bacl
many years, and from them / made
comparison of the prices of hogs an(
cattle at the great commercial center!
of the west, Chicago and Omaha.
found in the Omaha Bee of Aug. 10
1896, statement to the effect that
few hogs had sold the previous day a
the stock yards for $500 per 1O
pounds, and the Bee stated this wa
the highest price that had been reached
since July 10 of that year. The aver
age price for hogs that day was $27
per 100 pounds, while cattle sold a
from $500 to 1925 per 100. Turnin
to the Omaha Bee Of Aug. 10, 1900,
found hogs We're sold the previous da,
at prices ranging from $500 to $50
per 100, and cattle at $3.50 t
1915. You will see that the price
quoted in the Omaha Bee of Aug. II
1900, were from So to 1925 per 10
more for hogs than on the same day i
1896, and $1.50 to $1.90 per 10
more for cattle.
Gan investigation of the Chicag
market reports for 1896 and 100
shows the following comparison G
figures for the same days:
Chicago Markets.
Aug 10, 1896. Aug. 10, 1901
Butter .......... 9@15c zoe
Eggs ........... &c lie
Wheat .a..... 541ac 7o@76A
Corn ......... 227sc 39A@39;
Hogs So. 7O@3.25 $5.25@5.3
Cattle So. 5O@3.75 $5.75@6C
Farmer Brown examined these fl.
ures carefully and paid close ,attentio
to everything his son said in regard I