Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Still Running With Dirty Spark Plugs. [ARTICLE]

Still Running With Dirty Spark Plugs.

According to the democratic slogan farming must be illegitimate, for the democratic promise was, “The tariff will not adversely affect any legitimate industry.”—-Monti-cello Herald. Well, what’s the answer, Bro. Van /Buskirk? All classes of farm products will certainly average as high or higher than they did before the present tariff law was passed or took effect. Corn at Rensselaer is 12 cents per bushel higher than it was one year ago: oats, 4 cents per bushel higher: chickens, eggs and butterfat the same price as one year ago; veals, 1 1/ 2 cents higher; fat cattle and hogs are higher than a year ago. the butcher tells us; while all dairy and feeding stock is also much higher. If there is any branch of the farming industry that has been seriously “hit” by the new tariff law it would be interesting to have the Herald and other faultfinding republican papers point out what it is.