Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — The Good Old Times. [ARTICLE]

The Good Old Times.

Our esteemed brother Kitt, of the Gcodland Ilmthl, asserts that there is no sekt me to lorn his Be- | nblici.n renders from the -true political faith, involved in his practice of fiHing- his paper with political alliance or People’s party matter. It is all done for the benefit, of his alliance renders Ac., 4&c. But if such be the case, we -wonder bow it happens that lie -does'not work in a few columns occasionally for the benefit of his Republican readers, who, according to his own statement; comprise the great bulk of his subscribers. •Some good sound Protection literature for instance;- or Senator Sherman’s letter on the Seven Conspiracies. His Republican readers are surely as much entit led to have their views well represented iq his paper as the members of any other party. The Herald

also adds, in further conclusive proof that it doesn’t want to help the Democratic party, the statement that some of the most “vicious and contemptible” enemies the editor has are among the leaders of the local Democracy, find therefore it follows as a matter of course that lie can’t possibly want to do their cause any good. All the same, while it may be very true that Bro. Kitt has no desire to help, the local Democratic leaders, we think it safe to assume that in case so very unlikely" an event should occur next year as the election of another Democrat to the presidency, that Bro. Kitt would be glad to find himself in a position to again claim the postmastersbfpof his town, or even some more desirable recognition, on account of the valuable services his paper rendered to the Democratic canse by turning Republican farmers into into People’s Party men.

American Fanner. Tlie Hon. <T R. Dodge, statistician of the United States Department. of Agriculture. while spending his vacation in his native State of New Hampshire, came across an old dgy book at fioscawen, dated 1817, the year after the enactment of the low tariff bill. o % f 1816, from which he extracts the following charges to customers as given in the September statistical bulletin: One-half bushel herdsgrass, 63 cents; one pound coffee, 25 cents; ? pound loaf sugar, 27 cents; i pound tea, 25 ceuts; * ponnd powder, 17 ceuts; \ pound of shot, 17 cents; 15 eggs, 15 cents; 4 dozen plates, 29 cents; 3 pounds cotton yarn, No. 9, £2 25; one nutmeg, 13 ceuts; three hoes, $2; 28 pounds fish, $1.25; 4 yard cotton lining, 8 cents; one yaid flannel, 62 ceuts; twelve pearl buttons, 17 cents; £ yard cambric, 84 ceuts; one skein silk, 8-cents; yards calico, 75 cents; \ yard muslin, 42 cents; 43 ynnla fulled doth, $7.92; one gill New England mm, cents; eight yards black silk, $8; four yards calico, *

$1; five yards cambric, $3.05; \ yard shirking, 34 cents; one gallon AVest India rum, $1.40; one pouud sugar, 20 cents; one felt hat, $1.50; two spelling books, 50 cents; two pounds veal, 6 cents; one ounce indigo, 23 cents; £ pouud Hyson tea, 42 tents; five yards calico, 4— lt-will seem that everything the farmer bad to buy, excepting New England or AVest India rum, was much higher than now, while eggs were 12 ceuts a dozen, and veal "three cents a pound. There was also credit for “one-half day’s work, 50 cents.” He had to work a day for two yards of calico, a day for a yard and a half of shirting, or five pounds of sugar, or qne pound of tea. And a day’s work sun.”