The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-08

I would keep a little store over in Hendricks
county. Well, / bought coal oil In ten-gai-
Ion lots from Browning < Sloan, or lndlan-
apolis; 1t was mighty poor oil, too. Every
once In a while some farmers lamp blew
up. / paid Browning & Sloan 70 cents a
gallon for that coal oil and then retailed
IL at 90 cents a gallon That was IN iSoI
When l quit store-keeping and went 10
farming / got to the point where | bought a
barrel of oil at a time. l paid 90 cents a gal
lon for that and retailed II at 20 cents a
gallon. Well. here came along the standard
OIL Company- guess that is the greatest
trust in the world, isn't it?-Very well, L
now live in Danville, and that Standard
Oil Company has tanks right in our town
and they deliver oil right at my house Tor
IL and 10 cents a gallon. And Ii Is caretully
refined and no more like the stun used 10
sell than wheat Is like corn. That's not all.
When 1 started my little store the people
bought sugar OF me at IS cents a pound~
You never saw any sugar like it IL was
coarse brown sugar that NOBODY would
have In his house now Well, here comes
along the sugar trust and the people to-day
buy twenty pounds of white, refined gran
ulated sugar for 81
1T is true that the prices of some articles
have raised. and there are various causes
for those increased prices. But you farmers
examine the scale of prices of what you
buy for the last twenty years. and you. will
ind that twenty years ago you paid from
80 10 500 per cent. more for nearly everything
you use than you pay now. On the contrary,
the price OF what you have to sell mas
ctCd0iy 5Ont ~ TUT ally q AANA
from Posey county was down at Evansville
when We opened the Republican campaign
there last week. He told me that seven
years ago he built a new house, and that
this year he had built me just like II for
his son. And he said: i built my sons
house for a little less than one-half of the
farm produce that it took to build my house
seven years ago. Consider the price that
you get for your hogs; think of the price
that you get for your cattle!
Congressman Lands told me that a
farmer nQar Dolphf had sold HE aaftla loC CT
summer for z cents a pound on the hoof in
his farmyard. He sold them to one of the
great packing establishments of Chicago.
And so 1T is throughout the whole list of
what you produce. Now, how does ii hap
pen that, on the average, what the farmer
buys Is cheaper and what the farmer sells
Is higher? This is how it comes: Our man.
ufacturing n transportation industry has
grown so great and employed so many men
that every day there is an increasedd demand
for everything that the farmer raises; also,
the great combinations of modern industry
are hiding foreign markets for everything
you raise, so that not only in our own
country, but all over the world, there is
more and more a demand for the products
or your farms. Now, what causes that
increase In manufacturing industry and in
crease IN foreign markets-the Republican
policy OF protection first and the Repub-
ncan policy of capturing foreign markets
second. And yet the opposition to the gov
eminent asks you to strike down both OF
these policies. Will you do it? Well, not Il
you go home and ask your wives how yoJ
ought TO vote. The backbone of the Re-
publican party Is the American farmer, anC
that backbone is getting sitter every
Il year"