Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — Plenty of Prosperity at Hand You Don’t Have to Hunt For It [ARTICLE]

Plenty of Prosperity at Hand You Don’t Have to Hunt For It

A special to the Chicago Chronicle from St. Paul says: The scarcity of farm labor in the great wheat fields of the northwest made itself "apparent yesterday, when the railroad officers received appeals by wire and mail asking for their aid in behalf of the farmers, whose crops are threatened because they cannot secure laborers, to harvest the grain. The employment agencies are advertising all over the oountry, but oan find very few available men. The wages offered run from $2 to $3.25 a day imd board. % The daily papers are filled with dispatohdl of the above character. There is a crying demand for laborers, not only in wheatfields but on the railroads, and in every avenue of industry, labor is at -a premium. It is such items that give the lie to the calamity howlers and one-lung yawpers who will not see the improvement in industrial conditions. Little tom tit politicians who would rather sit around and wear out the bosoms of their trousers waiting for somebody to call a “rough house” at the pie oounter than put their shoulder to the wheel and join the parade of prosperity which is sweeping the land. Nearly every week the Rensselaer papers contained aocounts of the de--parture of young men from this vioinity for the fields of labor, situations and car fare and good wages guaranteed, and there isn’t a man in this town or any other town who oannot secure work and good gay for it if he wants it. - —.m —i 4 '