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The high prices which such products bring mean great prosperity for the farming community, but on the other hand they mean a very considerably increased burden upon those classes in the community whose yearly compensation does not expand with the improvement in business and the general prosperity.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Taft discusses the implications of high agricultural prices on different economic classes.

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