The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-02

| Soap. $500, $ bars for 5..7 bars for %
Tabacco, per h.. 49,. ...... SO
lea. per lp.............. -.@o........'.. ~
Brooms -. ............. 20. ....... 49,. sc
Muslin ................ o5.. to s.. &C
Now let us figure up the two
columns. According to the Bull
letin the articles would cost the
farmer SO bushels Of corn in 1896
and but 597 bushels of corn in
!: 1900 The farmer. can today bring
to the market the same amount of
corn that he paid for the articles
even at the Bulletins figures for
'sbefore the trust prices" get every
one of the articles mentionedin the
Bulletin, sell the rest of his SO
bushels at sacrifice of five cents a
bushel, for the Bulletin only allows
him twenty-five cents, and go home
with all his goods and have SOS. ? $
to jingle in his pockets as his profit
in the deal over what it would have
been in 1896. Figure this out for
yourselves and see if after all the
Review is not right in its propo-
sition, that while the general level
of all prices has been raised by re-
publican prosperity, the farmer is
getting the big end of the deal.
Thus all the Bulletins elaborate
argument that the farmer is being
robbed collapses utterly before the
analysis of cold figures. What do
you think of this bunco deal? A
man must be insane or wilfully
blind who will not acknowledge the
absolute truth of these facts.
We have spoken of the unfair
ness OF the Bulletins prices. 1t is
a fact that the farmer can TODAY
buy the bill of goods mentioned in
the Bulletin for at least 10 per cent
less than is given by that paper as
the schedule of prices for today.
If the Bulletins figures were fair
and honest figures the balance in
favor of the farmer would be much
greater still. 1t is no fairer for the
Bulletin to take the lowest price it
can find and contrast it with the
highest price it can find than it
would be for US. to take seven cents
as the price of corn, because some
farmers did actually sell their corn
for that price and contrast that
price with the highest price that
could be found. Corn has sold
for more than thirty cents per bu-
shell and every farmer knows it.
We appeal to our readers if we
have not been fair in this matter;
we have accepted the Bulletins
prices and have proved our propo-
sition from them and we believe
there is no fair minded reader who
will not acknowledge that the Re
view is right and has been right all
through this controversy.
1t is fair to presume that after
week of search the Bulletin has
found about all the articles that it
could which are higher now than
formerly. It makes no defense of
its lying statements about cultiva-
tors and plows and rakes and al
dozen and one other articles men
toned in its article of October 1S.
and it may fairly be presumed that
it would have defended itself had
defense been possible. To fail to-
defend is TO plead guilty to the
charge of willful falsehood as
made by the Review. Relative to-
the prices of sisal and Manila rope
we wish to say that the prices
quoted in the Review were given
us by one of the leading dealers of
Denison and we believe he would
be willing to sell the farmers all
the rope they want at the Reviews
prices. Barb wire is selling in
Denison to-day for s3.S5 for as
good wire as any farmer can use.
As to wagons selling for $50 in 49,
| w, We idVC Tie WOIQ Oh more tlan
one dealer that the price of the
standard wagon was 500 in 1906
and that for cash a discount of So
was made and that the same rates
obtain today. We know nothing
about wagons but had presumed
that the "Capital" was standard
wagon. Perhaps it is not, we do
not know. This must of necessity
end the discussion for this cam
palgn. We have reason to be-
lieve that the Bulletins reply was
delayed an entire week solely for
the purpose that the Review
might not have sufficient time to
reach all the people with its ans
wer. But be that as it may, out
of the Bulletins own mouth has
the truth of the Reviews state
ments been proven, and the Bulle-
Il