Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Prosperity For the Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Prosperity For the Farmer.

It requires 50 per cent more wheat to buy a stove than it did in 1896. it requires 20 bushels mors coruK to buy a wagon than in 1896. It requires 100 per cent more corn or wheat to buy a copp ?r kettle than in 1896. It requires twice as much corn to buy a coil of rope as in 1896, It requires 40per cent more grai» to buy a plow than in 1896. It requires 75 per cent moregrain to buy a hoe, rake or shovel than in 1896. A set of common wheels that cost $7 in 1886 now costs sl2. The price of cultivators and other farm implements has gone up proportionately. Galvanized barbed wire costs from $4 to $4.50 per hundred more than in 1896. It requires 40 per cent more corn or cotton to buy a pound of sugar than in 1896. You have to pay 40 per cent more for glass than in 1896. Freight rateshave climbed back to the exorbitant figures of a few years ago. The price of oil, coal, lumber, tools and hardware has gone up from 40 to 100 per cent. And all these things have been done by trusts. A trust robs you waking or sleeping, eating or - drinking, working or resting, living or dying, and the Coffin Trust gets you in the end. —Ex.