Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 16, 15 March 1902 — HARD TIMES INDEED. [ARTICLE]
HARD TIMES INDEED.
Not because sugar, coffee, rice or wool or goat skins won't grow, but because the money is tight; and another thing, when we send a shipment of goods to the coast and we figure up so many kegs at so much, and when we get our returns we have not much more left than the value of the hoops on our purchases. Let us get our productive industries accommodated with money at a low rate, and on long terms,' and then" w,e can -choose our market and our time, and we will jjel a fair return for our 'produce aad hard times will disappear.