ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5394, 1 March 1879, Page 7

ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

"No," the honest; farmer remarked, in tones of the deepest dejection, "the big crap don't do us a bit of good. What's the use? Corn only thirty cents. Everybody and everything is dead set agin the farmer. Only thirty cents for corn! Why, by gum, it won't pay our taxes, let alon« bay us clothe?. It won't buy us enough salt to put up a barrel of pork. Corn only thirty cents ! By jocks, it's a livin', cold-blooded swindle on the farmer, that's what it is. It ain't worth raisin' corn for auch a pric: as that. It's a mean, low robbery." Within the next len days that man had sold so much more of his corn that he had intended, that he found he had to buy corn to feed through the winter with. The price nearly knocked him down. " What!" he yelle.l, " thirty cents for corn! Land alive—thirty cents ! What are you givin' us ? Why, I don't want to buy your farm, I only want some corn ! Thirty cents for corn ! Why, I believe there's noboby left in this world but a set of graspin', Mood-suckin' old misers. Why, good land, you don't want to be able to buy a National Bank with one corn crop ! Thirty cents for corn ! Well, I'll let my cattle an' horseE run on cornstalks all winter before I'll pay any such an unheard of outrageous price foi corn as that. Why, the country's floodec with corn, and thirty cents a bushel is i blamed robbery, an' I don't see how aoj man, lookin' at the crop we've had, can havi the face to ask each a price."