Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — WHAT COMPARISONS SHOW. [ARTICLE]

WHAT COMPARISONS SHOW.

Rockport Farmer Recalls Conditions in Lean Democratic Years. Many Indiana farmers with long memories are reviving facts and figures as a basis of comparison of their personal financial condition in the last Democratic administration and during the time of President Taft, and these comparisons invariably lead the farmer to “let well enough alone” and to vote for Taft. One of these farmers lives at Rockport, and the Journal says of him: J. M. Killian, of this city, has a record of prices of labor and farm products made during the last Democratic administration that makes very interesting reading at this time. Jack, as he is familiarly called, waa farming in Clay township at that time and kept a record of the wages paid for labor and prices received for products sold from the farm. One of the prominent teachers of this county now worked for Mr. Killian at that time for 50 cents a day and hoarded himself except for dinner. Another citizen of this county who has been successfully operating a threshing machine for a number of years worked for Mr. Killian during that distressing period for $9 a month. And with this cheap labor it was Impossible then to make on the farm because the laborlife people In the cities were out of employment and had no money with which to buy the farmer’s products, and, consequently, there was little demand for them at any price. For instance, Mr. Killian’s record shows that he sold eggs at six cents a dozen and everything else at correspondingly low prices. Mr. Killian was for Roosevelt before he bolted, but he is now for Taft. He is a Republican and believes in Republican .principle*. He.Jtnawa by. experience that they are best for the oountry and that the way to continue prosperity Is to vote the Republican ticket