Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — WHY THIS LIBERALITY? [ARTICLE]

WHY THIS LIBERALITY?

Rand McNally & Co., are sending out to farmers all over the country an, agricultural monthly, “Farm Life,” as a compliment of the national banks, This magazine is to come to us for a year free! No one hath shown more love for us than these free-hearted bankers. Such extravagant praise of farmers and farm life hath never yet appeared in print. To read this extravagant sheet the wonder is that any man would be fool enough to be a banker when he is able to be a farmer. These publishers know just about as much of a farm and of the real farm life as a goose does of Latin. In one of its prosperity pictures cit represents farmers hauling off oats and ear-corn in six-inch gravel beds. Why in this the year of our Lord 1904, this particular year, should my farm paper* come free? See. A Farmer.