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pen to sell your corn at forty cents a bushel, 

 Mr. Jones?" 



"That's the market price," explained Mr. 

 Jones. "That's what they are paying." 



"Exactly! That's what they offered you, 

 If you were making soap instead of corn, 

 do you think you would sell your soap for 

 what they offered you? Or do you think you 

 would sell it for what it cost to manufacture, 

 plus a fair interest on the capital involved?" 



But Farmer Jones isn't bothering about 

 abstruse problems. He isn't bothering about 

 the cost of production. He is interested only 

 in the credit side of the ledger. The debits 

 don't affect him. If it really is true that he 

 has to pay rent and wages, then his liabilities 

 are in the hands of preferred creditors, himself 

 and his wife, and their sons and daughters. 

 What is a small matter of insolvency, if one 

 can keep it in the family circle? If Farmer 

 Jones is broke because he owes himself money, 

 you will have to show him. 



"But how about me!" cried Jeremiah. "I 

 think I see the sheriff coming down the road 

 now." 



It wasn't the sheriff. It was only the 

 willow-bank farmer coming back from Canada 



