Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — LET US BE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

LET US BE FAIR.

A farmer must pay $? 70.00 for a grain binder this year. That is a pretty big advance, as this same binder could have been purchased last year at $145. Yet a farmer can take one hundred bushels of corn and buy a binder with the money received from the sale of the same. If the buying power of the farmers’ products has advanced, what about the fellow who must earn his dollars by labor? Must the laboring man still give the same amount of service for a dollar? And that same dollar have only about two-thirds of the purchasing power at this time? We must be fair with each other and be willing to deal with one another fairly and squarely.