Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-09-17
AS WE SEE IT
By MoNTco

more eloquent SCOTy tHdn AeAS pun
tical arguments. Facts from the
6oures derived from the stock mar
bot the livestock market, the grain
nit quotations at the end Of Hoover's
administration as compared with the
end of three years of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. H. A. Somers, editor of
the Elizabethtown News, at Eliza
bethtown, KY, and with former con-
uections in Montgomery County, cites
the following to support the claim
that prosperity is evident from COM
narrative figures which speak elo-
quently:
people who vote in an election,
aside from professional politicians,
are influenced very largely upon con-
ditions which surround them at the
time of the election. If the people
are prosperous or reasonably better
off under the present administration
than they were under the preceding
administration of different political
party they will not vote for change.
The men and women who had empty
pockets in March, 1888, when Roose-
welt went into Office and have money
in their pockets after three years of
Roosevelt, are not likely to vote to
return to the old deal whether they
are Democrats or Republicans.
Let US look at the market quota
tons on farm products taken from
the files of the Louisville Courier
Journal. To illustrate, Top hogs un-
der Hoover in '33 were $3.50. They
we're $1,000 in March, '36, under
Roosevelt. Top cattle on the Chicago
market under Hoover in '33 were
$3.50 and under Roosevelt in SO they
were $1,000. Spring lambs in '33
under Hoover were $5.40 and in SO
under Roosevelt were $10.10.
Ewes (wooled) were $500 in 'S3
under Hoover, and $4.621a in '36 un-
der Roosevelt. Calves in '3S under
Hoover were $5.25 and in '36 under
Roosevelt they were $1,000.
NOW COMPARE THE GRAIN
markets in March '33, and March SO.
Wheat was 48A cents per bushel I'M
der Hoover in '33 and 100h cents
under Roosevelt in '36. Corn was
"a cents under Hoover in '33 and 81
cents in March '36, under Roosevelt.
Rye was S5 cents in March, '3S, un-
der Hoover, and SIN cents un e +
Roosevelt in March, SO. Barley was
26% cents under Hoover in '33 and
4Sh cents under Roosevelt in '36.
Cotton in '33 under Hoover was $500
and under Roosevelt in SO it was
\ $l1.1S.
Burley tobacco for the season end
ing March. '32, sold in 1888 at an
average of $12.40. The crop of '35
sold in 1886 at an average of $19.05.
The crop under Hoover brought $4O,-
225,l9S.6O, while the crop under
Roosevelt in SO brought 45,472,-
oS4'72. This shows how the farmers
Jared under Hoover and how they
Jared under Roosevelt. Poultry in
50 under Hoover was IL cents and
In 'S6 under Roosevelt was 1914 cents.
Creamery butter in '33 under Hoover
was 17% cents and in '36 under
roosevelt was 351s cents. Eggs in
80 were 16A cents and in '36 were
20A cents.
The farm crops for '35 sold for
'@'OOO,OO0,000 more in round num-
OerS than the farm crops of '33. How
'aese prices affected agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS can be shown in the quota
uOns from the papers of March '3S
and March '36, of International Har-
'eSter' International Harvester I'M
yer Hoover in '33 was 16A and in
% under Roosevelt was 69h. ]. l.
Ease in '3S under Hoover was 369s
Sno under Roosevelt in '36 was 1881
Inc mail order houses, which sell
,'fy largely to farmers, also record
NC difference under Hoover's and
"OOSevelt's administrations. Sears,
"0eOuck under Hoover in 'S3 was
''S and in March, '36 under Roose-
,.'' was 64A. Montgomery Ward in
''arch 'SS, under Hoover was 10%
~ NM IN March go. under Roosevelt
was 39%.
tHE PROSPERITY OF THE FAR
not only effected an improve
~ IN agricultural implement COM
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