Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — ANOTHER FARMER GAN SEE IT [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER FARMER GAN SEE IT

Farm Tools Doubled In Price WHII4 Grain’s More Than Trebled. We were talking to a farmer Monday and in the course of our conversation the matter of politics came up. We had supposed this farmer was a Republican and that he was one of the standpatters, but were greatly surprised when he said that he was going to vote with the Democrats this fall, as will all the other members of his family. "Why,” said he, "should I vote against my own interests and the interests of the country? Everybody is prosperous; there is not a tramp anywhere from Maine to California. Everybody is working or can get work if he wants it and at the highest wages ever known. Everybody has money and, even though prices are high for everything we buy, we have all got the money to pay for what we want and have a little left—something that we didn’t used to have. We can better afford to pay these high prices than we could the low prices for what we had to buy 10 years ago. "Why, 10 years ago, for example, 1 needed a new corn planter. I had to haul 100 bushels of corn to market and it took every bushel to pay for that S4O planter. Last spring I needed another planter, but the price had risen to $75, but it only took 50 bushels of corn to buy it where it had taken 100 bushels 10 years ago. I had $75 left out of 100 bushels of corn where 10 years ago it hiid taken every dollar that 100 bushels brought. “No, I am perfectly satisfied to let well enough alone, and our votes this year will be cast for Cox and Roosevelt, for I have made more money—as has practically every other man- in the entire country—during the past eight years than I had made before in all the years of my life.” . ,