Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — WHY? [ARTICLE]

WHY?

If the Dingley tariff - passed in 1897—made the price of wagon wheat in the Indianapolis market f 1.00 a bushel op Aug. 10, 1904, why couldn’t the same sacred enactment make the same price on Aug. 10,1906? On the latter date

it was 68 cents a bushel. Will some Republican tell why? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of the farmer’s cattle, why did they sell at 14.50 per hundred bn Aug. 10, 1898 and in 1906,. while in 1904 on the same date, they brought $7.00 per hundred? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of corn, why did corn sell at 61 cents on August 10, 1902, and at only 48 cents on the same date in 1906? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of oats, why did oats self on August 10, 1901, at 38 cents and on the same date in 1906 at 28 cents?