Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — REAL PROSPERITY. [ARTICLE]

REAL PROSPERITY.

That editor; who haid that prosperity which comes irom . a billion bushel wheat crop and a corn harvest greater than any except one in the country’s , history. is of a better quality and 'more enduring: benefit than any boom of stocks, however feverish it may be and ho we ver many spectacular winnings it may record From the farm to the consumer the cereals contribute to the material well being of every man, whatever his place in the economic scale, substantially bettering the condition of transportation 'companies, merchants,laborers arid ail the intricate social system that is:dependent on,, them. The American larmer has produced more wheat by 1 1 1.0 Q <>j 00 0 bushels than the previous high mark. Corn tails !)B,out),otto bushels below its own record, made in 1912, but the amount is greater than that gathered in any other “year. On this firm iounda ti on bus in e s swill ba s e its ei f solidly, given ■decent. immunity from political assaults, if permit led to develop without the injudicious fostering of demagogues an.i bumptious tinkerers with the natural order of fairs.. The real plutocrat is the farmer; he deserves his profits; and if congress and the legislatures will stop meddling with, the farmers’ elaborate machinery of collection, all will be well with him and his.—Lake County Times.