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Show ARE FARMERS DISSATISFIED? Missouri Pessimist Afraid City Man Will 8oon Refus to Pay High Price for Meat and Egg. my R a. WEATHF.TtBTONF) A Missouri man with characteristic pessimism opines that the eihorbllant vice that the farmer I aettlnx for his grain and live stock will eventually lead to bis destruction. This sign reader says the products of the farm were selling too low for the producer to make a living a few year ago. Now, the price are at the other extreme and he fears for the prosperity of the man of the soil. Our M I h sour I pessimist bases his gloomy predictions from the Inability of the city man to eat 40 cent eegs, 25 cent bacon, 45 cent butter and 20 cent beefsteak. lie declares that sal-, sal-, arlea have not Increased as rapidly as the price of the thing he must eat and he must, therefore reduce his expenses by cutting down his grocery bill. Thla mean that If the price of meat keep up Americana will reasn to be meat eaters, and the Missouri prog-nostlcator prog-nostlcator declares that no nation having hav-ing once ceased to eat meat has ever been known to return to the habit. With nobody to eat meat, farmers will find It unprofitable to raise It. the packing houses will go out of business and agriculture will sink Into a state of decay. It aeems to us that the Missouri man ha overlooked the fact that even If people do stop eating meat they must eat something else and a the farmer Is the only man ho grow thlngi to cat, he will turn his attention atten-tion to growing the things the city people want aud bis destruction will, therefore, be postponed. At any rate we do not believe that the farmer of this country are losing much aleep over their present prosperous pros-perous condition but will continue to produce whatever the people want whether It be meat, fruit or vegetables and abide by the principle of the law of supply and demand, taking their chance of poverty or rlrbnes along with other folks. |