Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — UNDER A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION, TOO! [ARTICLE]

UNDER A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION, TOO!

Over at Monticello the doctors recently established a new schedule of prices, advancing their rates about one-half, the same as was recently done by the Rensselaer doctors. Their action caused some criticism, and in defense one of the doctors published a reply to this criticism in one of the local papers there, from which we clij) the following paragraph:

"Twenty years is far enough to go back and compare prices. We received the same fees in 1889 as in 1909. Then, oats cost 20 cents, now 40 to 60 cents; corn 25 cents, now 45 to 65 cents; hay $6 per ton, now $lO to sl6. Eggs, we could buy three dozen for 25 cents, now 25 to 35 cents per dozen, and other things in proportion. We could buy a good driving horse for from S6O to SBO, now SIBO to $225. House rent then $8 1-3 per month, now sl2 to S2O. Hydrastis that we all use cost us then 90 cents per bottle, the same size bottle now costs $2.25, and so drugs, Instruments, rubber goods, etc,, goes in comparison of prices.” Now, let’s see. Twenty years ago, 1889? That was during the Ben Harrison administration, wasn’t it? And Ben was a republican president, too! Who would have thought that such prices prevailed under a republican administration? We know nothing about the political' complection of the doctor who wrote this paragraph, but surely he or the numerous editors of Dr. Washburn's paper are mistaken. It was only under democratic administrations that prices were low, according to the latter.