Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1899 — Will Be Saved in Spite of Himself. [ARTICLE]

Will Be Saved in Spite of Himself.

Fowler Republican:—The Review had a long letter last week from a Jasper county farmer. This farmer objects to what Congressman Crumpacker says about the prosperous farmers in White and Jasper counties. He also recounts a whole lot of miseries he himself enjoys. Just before every campaign there is nothing a democrat so much enjoys as misery, calamity, bad crops and low prices, and he can always be depended upon to figure these out. We don’t know all this farmer has for the market this year but he mentions 2000 bushels of com he hopes to sell. Let us see how much he will realize from this. Com is now 30 cents a bushel and it would seem his 2000 bushels of com would come to 600 dollars. The price of com in 1896, the year when Grover and Clover were in full operation, was 19 cents and would have brought the Jasper county farmer 380 dollars. So it does seem that the gentleman from Jasper is 220 dollars bettei* off on com under the McKinley administration than he was under Grover and clover in 1896. And somehow we are led to believe Judge Crampacker was talking about the right way. If our Jasper county farmer will just keep cool it won’t be a great while until the republican party will repair all the ruin and. desolation wrought by four years of Cleveland and a democratic congress.