Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-11
PORK AND BEANS IN
TARIFF REVISION
AS Free Trade And Organism 90
-. Upward, The Price OF Stock
Goes Downward.

Even the East has learned that Ne
braska has more cheerful side than
the one Mr. Bryan always shows up
in his political pessimisms. Golfers
Weekly has caught sight of it, but only
as il is fading, and admits that NE
braska has more than one citizen of
whom she can be proud. +. l.. Bow
ers of Verndon in two weeks time
marketed 1881 hogs averaging 262
pounds APIECE. They brought their
owner the sum of $27, 1902. Mr..
Bryans lecture receipts are large, but
the hog industry speaks even more
loudly for Nebraska
IL did once, and lately. But now
the farmers star, which had risen
high during years when the Bryan
party was in eclipse, is declining
again, while that of Bryan moves
again up the heavens, shining more
brilliantly, with the baleful light of
free trade, than any other in the
Democratic constellation. IL is re-
markable what an apostle of free
trade Mr.. Bryan has become of late.
Free trade is now as much tenet of
Organism as free silver ever was. 1t
Is easy to see that if the star of his
party is to rise again, his star must
rise with it, even though it falls short
of the zenith. IL is just as easy to see
the star of the Nebraska farmer
sinking as those of Mr. Bryan and
his party rise. A little figuring will
show beth The weight of the hogs
sold by L. l.. Bowers of Verndon,
Neb., was 337, 1874 pounds, The price
being $27, $40. 80. the price per hun
dred pounds was 1926 $40. Even
that price showed a decline from the
prices for hogs paid in Nebraska be-
fore the beginning of the end of pro-
lection was threatened. The ST
pound price was paid some time be-
fore the threat was written in the
election returns of last November.
Since then the bottom has been drop
ping ont of hog prices in Nebraska
If Mr.. Bowers sold his hogs now he
would get only $40. 231 "a; loss $500.
A current issue of the Lincoln Jour
nal says: Last year at this time
hogs were selling in Omaha at 10
cents Now they are six, slump of
40 per cent. Choice beef steers were
then ~, to q now; a loss of 20 per
cent. Wheat was then about 81. 13
where now it runs about IS cents, a
loss of more than 25 per cent Corn
is around As cents now as against so
cents then, loss about equal to that
in wheat. The farmers are at present
very quiet, as if they were thinking
hard"
There is opportunity for hard
thinking in Nebraska now. The same
opportunity has already come, or is
coming, to all of the agricultural
states, North and South. 1t is true
that it came last year, offering to
discriminating minds a chance to see
that what was offered the farmers as
q bag of gold was really a bag of
beans But the bag was then tied,
and many people who make boast
of being able ito tell beans" qualify
it by adding: When the bag is open. !"
The bag is not wholly open yet, but
IL has been opened far enough to set
the Nebraska farmers to suspecting
that it is filled with beans. Beans
was the most nutritious article of diet
provided for thousands of souphouse
patrons thrown out of employment on
the last previous revision downward,
when the prices of farm products fell
so hard that the farmer fell with
them and demonstrated, through loss
of his purchasing power under tariff
reduction, that when pork gets so
cheap workingmen can't earn the
money to buy it, it is time for beans
Cheap pork always means cheap
beans when the bag is open. St
Louis Globe Democrat.