The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-08-28

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:''
$40 a certain extent, father, that. is
true replied John, but believe
that an investigation of the facts
shows that while the farmer has no
doubt to pay little more for what he
bu@ss, he gets it back in the increased
prices he receives for his commodities,
as compared with the Democratic
years of the past decade. l remember
to have read recently an article in
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. 81. issued by the national de-
Dartment of labor and edited by that
eminent statistician, Carroll D. Wright.
This article showed that while it took
$116.2O today to purchase what 500
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 L, 1896,
with Dec 1, 1899, the farmer receives
S145. 60 today for the same amount of
produce that brought him but 500 in
1896. Sosthat while it takes $500
more toda% to buy what might have
been bought in 1896 for $780, the
farmer has received $40. go more on
every $500 worth of produce sold.
Therefore he has really gained 500. go
on every 500 worth Of crops as com
pared with the purchasing power of
the same crops in 1896.
Dan McKay's Hog Story.
81 overheard little story the other
day which / think puts the matter
very neatly There is an old Demo
cratic farmer named Dan Mckay in
Louisa county. He voted for McKin
| ley four years ago and in consequence
his Democratic neighbors have never
forgiven him. One day last week he
brought load of hogs to town and
after selling them, purchased bill OF
lumber with which to construct a hog
rack. After he had purchased the lum
Der he went around to see his Demo
cratic friends and in speaking of the
|
Der for new hog rack today.
bought the same kind of lumber foul
years ago for 81 .35 and today it cos
me Sc. 49, 'Ah, ha,' said one of hi!
Democratic friends, we though
you'd find out pretty soon that THU
prosperity these Republicans ar,
bowling about is all fake. You SCI
4 you paid over So 90 more for the SAM
material now than you did in &c.
know all that said Mckay, but
sold my hogs in '96 for So. so per 10
pounds, and today got So 90 for them
so l made nearly enough on every 10
pounds of hog to pay the difference il
the cost of my lumber. guess pros
i perity suits me; it's all right after all
Before we end this lesson want t
tell you what saw in one of TIL
newspapers at the Iowa State Registe
office when l was looking over the maj
ket reports. 1 picked up the Keosar
qua Republican and found in it a
item something like this. 1t state
there was g big crib of corn in Jackso
township, Van Buren, county, whic
contained $4,000 bushels of '96 corr
This was sold recently to local feeder
and the corn was so good that
brought 40 cents bushel, or $3.50
for that one crib of corn. Now I fin
!. by a little investigation that when tha
corn was cribbed corn was worth e,
actly ia cents per bushel in Van Bure
county, so that this corn would b
worth then but $3.50, and the diffe
. ence between $3.50 and $1,000 is til
evidences of prosperity in that corr
But father this has been a pretty Ion
lesson, so we had better adjourn III
til tomorrow"
, JULIAN W. RICHARDS
: AGERMAN LEADERS, LETTEI