Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1910 — A Contrast. [ARTICLE]

A Contrast.

Monticello Herald. In looking through the news columns of the Herald of sixteen years' ago we noticed a letter from P. H. Kiefhaber which recalls the era of low prices. It was, written March 7th, 1894, from Westminister, Cal., and contained this remark: “Times are very dull here, and there are many unemployed in the large towns and cities. The price of products of all kinds is very low. The consumer can buy very cheap, but, where there is no work to do the consumer has no money to buy with even at a low price.” This describes a situation that prevailed all over the country at that time, and Mr. Kiefhaber stated a fact and not a theory, arf many people now living can testify. It was a great contrast to the present condition, but how many would exchange the present times, with all their high prices'

for the conditions of 1894? Now there is work for everybody, and the demand for labor is greater than the supply. The farmers are getting good prices for their products, and their lands and their live stock have doubled in value. With all the complaint of the high cost of Hying, the country is prosperous, and whoever h6ard of it being otherwise when the farmers were getting goqd prices? The farmer is the fountain head of good times in this country, and instead of begrudging him the prices he gets, everybody should rejoice with him when things are going his way. For as sure as the sun rises, when prosperity strikes the farmer, everybody else will get a taßte of it in due time.