You can't hire farm help for less than
the whole profit of the crop and in
town they tBll me if you want a thing
done you can do it in less time than
you can find somebody else. The big
railroads and contractors in the big
cities are just howlin' because they
can't get help enuf to carry their pro
jects and so it goes. Yet every ieetle
while there comes a strike to push
wages up higher Now this thing
alwus goes in a circle. Good times
makes plenty of demand and so good
prices and plenty of work. Then when
prices go up folks begin to kick and
howl for a change of administration
and then discontent begins and lack of
confidence comes and
down and less help is needed and
wages cut down and by and by prices
get so low they don't pay and there's
lots of idleness and Grover Cleveland
soup kitchens and Coxey armies and
then hard times and every interest
hard up and pocketbooks tight as
clams and calamity howlers abound.
Bo it goes in a whirl and part of the
trouble is when laborers keep pUshin'
up their unreasonable demands for
skyhigh wages until there ain't a cent
of profit in business.
