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When the wheat of a farmer is worth only fifty cents a bushel or his cotton only seven cents a pound it is to him a calamity, not an object of desire but a misfortune.
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Sherman highlights the negative impact of low prices on farmers, framing it as a misfortune rather than a benefit.
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