Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1900 — Past Predictions and Present Conditions. [ARTICLE]

Past Predictions and Present Conditions.

Sonie one predicted in 1896 the following: A vote for McKinley means more tramps. McKinley’s election means: Ten cent corn. Twenty-five cent wheat. Eight cent oats. , One dollar per ton for hay; Five cents per pound for butter. Three cents a. dozen for eggs. Two cent hogs. One and one-half cents for fat cattle. No money to carry on business. The “Hay Trade Journal” now shows how weak these forecasts were by setting forth the present condition of the country: Tramps at work. Twenty-seven cent corn. Sixty-five rent wheat. Thirty cent oats. Seventeen cent butter. Sixteen cent eggs. Five and one-fourth cent cattle. ! wenty-eight cent wool. Nine dollar per ton hay. Mills running overtime, ages advanced. Bushels of money, good in any part of the, world.