The Pleasant Aspects of the Current Scarcity

it, the farmer has been able to sell his products at high prices, even to the middlemen, speculators, and grain-usurers. If prices become affordable again in the spring—as is to be expected—then the farmer has the advantage, and the usurer the deserved loss. However, if we did not have these high prices now after the harvest, the needy farmer would have been forced by necessity to sell his surplus grain cheaply to the middlemen, and upon the ensuing high prices in the spring, the usurer would have had the profit and the farmer the loss. High grain prices after the harvest bring the farmer a rich reward for his arduous labor, and ruin to the usurer! Suum cuique to each his own! Therefore, the benefit goes to him to whom the benefit is due!