Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — Hi-Livin’ and the Robber Tariff. [ARTICLE]

Hi-Livin’ and the Robber Tariff.

Fowler Republican-Leader, The Review from time to time during the recent campaign has made remarks about the Hi-Livin’ and was .very free to declare that the Robber Tariff done it. When the rule would not work, the paper would print that the apparent prosperity was on account of the increase in the amount of money in circulation, just as Bryan and the democrat party said. Now some fellows who have a fondness for figures has taken trouble to figure out how much fourteen of the commonest things grown on the farms would buy of twenty-six of the commonest articles sold at the stores. According to this table in 1896, thirteen hundred pounds of hogs would buy 87 pounds of Rio coffee; in 1910, the same amount of hogs would buy 361 pounds of the same kind of coffee. Then a case of eggs would buy 11 gallons of New Orleans molasses; now 20 gallons. Then 20 pounds of butter would have bought 77 pounds of rice; now it will buy 112. Then a 1,200 pound steer would have bought 1,067 pounds of sugar, now 2,065. Then twenty bushels of potatoes would have paid for 14 pounds of tea, now 26. A ton of hay would have paid for 27 yards of carpet, now 32 yeards of the same kind. Twenty bushels of oats would have paid for 59 yards of cotton flannel, now for 99. Then TO bushels of corn would have paid for 95 pounds of 8-penny nails, now 337 pounds. And so on. There are nearly four hundred comparisons. Money, little or much, does not form any part of the comparison. Because it is the direct exchange of a farm product for a manufactured article. It has been told a good many times that a lot of pious individuals went down to and told the President that Grant was a drinking man and often got drunk. The solemnfaced martyr listened patiently and then inquired: “What brand of whiskey does Gen. Grant use?” They did not know, why? “I want to send some of the same kind of liquor to the generals who are being defeated.” If this is Robber Tariff, we are very sure that the farmers of Benton county want to be robbed some more. And Jawn Kern is traveling all over this country crying “Huh Huh!” waving his red night shirt and shouting “Robber! Robber Tariff!"