Show ul I 1 I 1 ml mill n f ce lus in va values naulea ci occasionally some soine subscriber calls tile the editors attention to the fact that years ago the average subscription subscript price for a weekly newspaper was waa a dollar a year ruid wonders why the price has been advanced these days the fact of tho the matter Is that when relative values aro are considered the subscription price bas has not been advanced at all it has really been reduced back in the days of the dollar weekly wheat was selling at fifty cents a bus bushel basliel liel so it took two bushels of the farmers wheat to pay tile the dollar asked tor for the paper with wheat selling on the local market at it the editor was still getting two bushels of at wheat for his subscription lie he would receive in former years it took tour four bushels of twenty f five iva cent corn to pay for tile the dollar a year paper the editor would woul d still be glad to receive tour four bushels of ninety cent corn in exchange for ills his paper a year ho he would bo be getting for it then the housewife brought in ten pounds of butter in order to get a dollar and was lucky it she was able to got get the cash instead of taking pay in trade any country editor would today gladly take ten pounds of 40 cent butter tor for a years subscription for he would bo be getting 4 a year tor for ills his paper eggs were then worth from eight to ten cents a dozen at least to ten dozen were required to pay for the dollar newspaper the same number of eggs would be worth 3 or more and so BO on all down the line these are some settle of tile the rea reasons sorts why tho the editor cannot go back to the old dollar rate lie he has actually reduced tho the price of ills his paper as it la Is instead of raising it |