Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1910 — SIDE TALKS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS [ARTICLE]

SIDE TALKS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS

By Old John Henry.

To the Editor: I do not know that the Indiana farmer needs any political advice this year, but I shall address a few words to him, anyway. One thing most of us resard as first, Is the matter of voting, in itself. Get out and vote. See that your neighbor votes. The right to vote carries with it the duty to vote. ) The citizen i» the government. Don’t be a foolism sovereign or a sulky sovereign, and stay at home when government is in the making, and when policies are being shaped for your weal or for your woe. Mr. Partner, you are for the protective principle or you are against it. Put yourself on record for or against. You are for the existing prices or you are for lower prices. Put yourself on record, one way or the other. Our ,frlends, the Democrats, say prrlces are too high. Republicans ask you to compare the prices you get today with the prices you received in 1806. Republicans ask you which you prefer. What is your answer? Record that answer at the polls. If you want to go back to the era of low prices, vote the Democratic ticket and accept the policies which promise low prices. If you desire to continue the era of good prices and good times, with the millions at work and your markets constantly expanding, vote the Republican ticket and boost Republican principles such as we operate under at this time. .You, Mr. Parmer, having bought more land, under the good promise of lasting prosperity, are interested in having the value of that land increased, or sustained, rather than decreased or cut down. You know the value of your land lies In the value of the crops that come from the land. Your wheat land Is twice as valuable when it gives you $1 wheat as It was when it gave you 45 cents wheat in 1896. Your corn land keeps better value when it raises 70 cent corn than it did in the days when corn was 15 to 23 cents and you burned it for fuel. Thirty-five cent oats means better land values than 20 cent oats. Hay at $16.50 a ton, as it is this year, lends part of its value to the land, and it is better for you, Mr. Parmer, than $8.60 hay, —under Democratic prices. Take hogs at $8.85 to $9.15 a hundred, and it is worth while to raise corn to fatten them. The hog crop, In Iti turn, makes fanning more profitable, and farm land worth having. It was not so In 1896, under Democratic prices, when hogs were $3.16 a hundred In the Indianapolis market - It Is a good thing for the fanner to

think beyond through the prices he gets for his products, and to consider the comforts and advantages that accrue to his home and family as a result of his profits. Now we all admit the farmer’s prices are fair only; that he is justly entitled to partake of prosperity in full measure, and that he is getting no more than Is coming to him today. Does he want a change? And if there is to be a change, does he desire to take what' Democrats propose, a revenue-only tariff, uncertainty, agitation, and lower prices for products? How about It, Mr. Farmer? Does it not look to you as If the vote Ip the box November 8 ought to count “one” for the continuance of good times, expanding markets, Just prices, fair profits, and opportunity for the children? OLJP JOHN HENRY.