The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-12
zeke Hears From His Boy aud Replies
FRoa HoLLER, Sept 30, 1900.

money at five per cent whereas you had
been paying eight per cent for three
years. l am pleased and still l am
sorry; sorry to think that you should
have been so weak as to have been led
away by the false arguments of Bryan
and his bosh, but at that time, as il is
now, they were as gaudy in oratorical
display as the hues of soap bubble is
brilliant in colors, but its only for a
brief period for the gas of the bubble
soon bursts it. So it is with the rotund
appearance of their paramount ISSUE"
it has reached its last ounce of tension
and the people, no longer deceived, are
only waiting for it to pop.
AS to TRUSTS" they are worse than
towards to mention them, as our PEG.
pie have learned long since that on this
score the Bryanites are deeper in the
mud than we are in the mire. Chair.
man Jones knows thing or two on the
cotton bale trust and Croker has q
"cinch" on about all the available ice
to be procured in his immediate vicinity.
l don't know as blame the latter. for
If / was member of the party he be
longs to after l died I would expect
that 1t would take more or less ice to
keep me cool in "the land that is hotter
than this
They talk about depression and fall
ing prices. You said in your last letter
last season that you sold that fifteen
acre field of beans south of the barn at
$500 per bushe, lat one time they
were even higher) and they averaged a
triffle over 30 blu. per acre. This would
be 300 bu. at So 90 per bushel, or 5000.
Your seed, narrowing, threshing, etc,
cost you $40, this, then left you 1855,
even say $500, and this under McKinley's
rule. Under Cleveland's administra.
ton the second year you had the same
filed in beans and in better filth as they
averaged 90 bu per acre that season;
help at that time was cheap and with it
your seed, threshing, etc, cost you only
$40 and along in the winter when
beans were cup" you sold them for As
cents per bushel. Let's see 10 acres at
% bu per acre is 345 blu. at As cts. per
blu. is s155.25. There is something the
matter here. Free Trade" theories
cost you alone on this one crop about
1914. IS or nearly 1913 loss on each acre
harvested in comparison with the
above.
You said at the time, and it's one of
Bryan's whoops at present, that the
trusts were eating you up. You built
1870 rods of fencing costing you $500
per hundred lbs. and paid 8 cents per
h. for staples. Well. you bought the
same grades of wire for so rods of
fencing during Cleveland's term and
hired money at 10 per cent to pay for it
and some notes past due; you paid $500
per hundred for wire and cts for
staples and only had your bean crop
to rely on, as wheat that season sold
at from 40 to so cts per bu (many farm
ers even fed it to their hogs so you
only had s155.25 to "play on" Last
fall you paid S1.O0 per hundred more
for wire and Gets per Id more for stap-
les and from the same piece of ground
had S344.75 to play on" a difference of
about 5000 in favor of the so called
'trust times" My boy, how much wire
would 5000 at present buy? Why it
would cris-cross your farm like fish.
net. So with wire and iron goods
"way-up' you have balance of 5000 to
go fighting the trusts" with or bum in
chewing gum or fish-hooks.
You paid when wire and nails and
steel goods were so cheapa5 cents to
the trusts on coffee, today it is 10 and
10 cents per Id. and from to 10 cents
for sugar, it is now and Tets per ID.
Y on paid the TRUSTS" S15 to $25 for a
good suit of clothes, today the same
grade is % and S12. You sold your
hogs last winter for 1926 per hundred
as gainst So rs and SO during Growers
term.
You also sold young stock such as
cattle and sheep last winter and spring
away up in CO. and it took good sheep
four years ago to have man take one
from you almost as gift, mutton at
that time was the cheapest meat sold,
good young ewes sold as low as so cts
head You say that you desire me to
find you 80 or 60 head of young sheep
and that you are willing to pay from
1915 to $3.50 apiece for them. No won
der you have Topped! Who wouldn'tY
am pleased to hear that the young
men of your vicinity have organized
Mckinley and Roosevelt Club. No! we
have no need of club here as we are
all of unanimous mind, solid for
Protection, Sound money and Pros
perity."
Your Loving Dad,
A rrrT