Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — Short Furrows [ARTICLE]

Short Furrows

"Abe Martin” in Indianapolis New*.

Th’ Home Brewin’ Circle met yesterday evenin’ in th’ cellar o’ Mrs. Lib Mopps an’ after bottlin’ an cappin’ eighty-nine pints an’ transactin’ other business o’ th’ organization th’ subject o’ sugar naturally come up an’ a number o’ bitter an’ illuminatin’ speeches wuz made. Mrs. Tilford Moots told how vital sugar wuz t’ th’ health an’ character o’ th’ people. She said: “Ther’s many instances where senility has been staved off fer days at a time by th’ liberal eatin’ o’ sugar. Th’ germ o’ youth is in sugar. It’s as necessary in character buildin’ as it is in a rhubarb pie. Jest think o’ anything as vital as sugar is bein’ doled out by a few favored dealers t’ the’r close personal friends t’ th’ exclusion o’ the general run o’ people. After days o’ weary trampin’ Mrs. Em Pash wuz successful in gettin’ a pound o’ sugar thro’ a friend o’ her husband’s who knowed a warm personal friend of a feller who’s brother-in-law owned a grocery. Th’ president is blamed fer not buyin’ th’ Cuban sugar crop. Why haint he blamed fer not buyin’ th’ p’tater crop an’ th’ clothin’ output an’ forty other things that are bein' manipulated? It’s all profiteerin’ pure an’ simple. Ther’s plenty o’ sugar, jest as ther’s plenty o’ p’taters.” Miss Mame Moon said: “Th’ sugar gougers ’ll clean up six hundred million dollars this year. Th’ income tax returns show what per cent th’ producers o’ sugar are makin’, Wilson or no Wilson. You might as well blame Wilson fer hay sellin’ at forty-eight dollars a ton. Candy makers an’ soft drink manufacturers have plenty o’ sugar. It’s th’ home brewers that are sufferin’. Ever’where you look you see pop stacked up an’ great stocks of candy. Bakers have plenty, too. Ever’ time th’ newspapers talk gloomily about th’ sugar situation tjl’ wealthy hustle off and buy all ther’ is loose. But why git excited over sugar any more’n ever’thing else? People are paying three prices fer autos an’ labor an’ clothes an’ squeal ’cause sugar’s high. Most grocers are like a feller with a couple o’ extra circus tickets an* can’t decided who t’ give ’em to They want t’ sell ther’ sugar wher" it’ll do ’em th’ most good. Unless

th’ Volstead act is declared uncon-

stitutlonal I think our club should raise ite own sugar cane.” "Th’ sugar situation is extremely puzzlin’," declared Misti Fawn Lippincut. "It resembles th’ whisky situation in so many respects that I am distrustful o’ ever’thing I read in th’ papers of an explanatory character. That ther’s sugar, an’ plenty of it, I’m sure. All other things are high, th’ good Lord knows, but we kin see them an’ feel them. We kin buy them, too, if we’ve got th’ price. But sugar an’ whisky mystify me, We hear ther’s no whisky an’ then run, on to a quart. We hear ther’s no sugar an’ wo see candy an’ pop on ever’ hand. I shall put up no cherries or strawberries. If I git my raisin’ wine in shape I’ll feel that I’ll be doin’ well. I think sugar Is like whisky —somebuddy’s holdin' it till th’ right feller comes along.”