Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — GOOD OLD REPUBLICAN DAYS [ARTICLE]

GOOD OLD REPUBLICAN DAYS

Of Roosevelt and “Normalcy” to Which Voters Wanted a Return. A Republican exchange prints a list of stock and produce prices copied from Its files of June 16, 1904, during the reign of Teddy 1., that is quite Interesting in view of the dissatisfaction of the fanners with recent prices and their joining by the thousands with other elements of discontent for a “change.” Following were the prices on June 16, 1904: Wheat, per bushel —ll.OO Corn, per bushel 46 Oats, per bushel 38 Rye, per bushel 50 Potatoes, per bushel — 1-00 Butter, per pound 13 Eggs, per dozen 11% Old chickens, pound - 08% Ydling chickens, pound 15 Turkeys—h6ns, pound ..— 08 Turkeys—toms, pound 08 Ducks, pound 06 Geese, pound — — -04 Hogs —light, cwt [email protected] Hogs—heavy, cwt 84.00© 84.50 Cattle —heifers, cwt 88.00 @ 14.50 Cattle —steers, cwt ......84.00 @85.50 Veal calves, cwt [email protected] In those “good old days” The Democrat hired expert printers at |lO per week, while today It Is paying >3O. The day laborer then got |1.35 to 81.50 —when he got work at all — and the tramp was always with ds in large numbers. / Today the day laborer is getting—or was until recently— 84 to 85 per day and jobs awaited him by the score, while the festive tramp had not been seen for some years and no back-door handouts were requested, insolently or otherwise, from this old-time gentry. Very few perhaps will really want to see the old days come back, but the voters wanted a change and the change seems to be coming quite rapidly and Is headed toward that of 1904 and may reach such stage before the end.