Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — Turning the Tables. [ARTICLE]

Turning the Tables.

Many years ago, before the production of grain was equal to the demand, wages of farm hands were high, but as production increased, the prices lowered faster than the rate of wages. A farmer employed an industrious Irishman for five years, at the rate of fifty dollars a month “and found”— board, lodging, washing and mending. At the end of the term, he said to his man: ' ’ “I can’t afford to pay you the wages I have been paying. You have saved money and I have saved nothing. At this rate you will soon own my farm.” “Then I’ll hire you to work for me,” said the other, “and you can get your farm back again!”—Success.