Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-22

WHICH ucSeTveS LO Dc baVeu IrOtu IDuu.
All this for forty-nvc thousand dollars I!
IT IS said that serious difficulty in tho
way OF tho development Of trade with
Mexico and South America IL the scarcity
Of drummers with the necessary qualifica.
tions for pushing American goods In those
markcts. These men must be familiar
with the customs and prejvdiccs Of the peo-
pie, and know the language and country
thoroughly. A New York company,
known a. tho "American Export and
Trading Company" has undertaken TO
overcome this by establishing agencies for
theus of Northern merchants and manu-
facturers In Buenos Ayres and the City of
Mexico. From these centres outposts will
be established, aud It In hoped that In this
way trade may be captured from the
Spanish and English merchants.
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THE vote In the House of Commons on
Labouchere's motion TO abolish hereditary
representation in Parliament shows very
respectable minority favoring such meas
ure, and when IL Is remembered that tho
members Of the House are largely drawn
from the wealthy or titled classes and that
the average Englishman dearly loves a
lord, the support Of Labouchere's motion
seems remarkable.
THE sudden death of General Crook calls
general attention to the arduous and scaut-
lily rewarded services of tho army
on the frontier In the inglorious In
dian campaigns. Crook, like Sheridan,
fought the Indians before the war,
aud after making n splendid war
record he again turned his attention
to that disheartening field of military ac-
tivity. whore the rascality and rufIianisln
OF frontier desperadoes is continually
bringing on petty warfare with brutal
savages, and where williams fatten by the
brave mans labor" II was not the busi-
ness Of the soldier to inquire into the
causes Of hostility, he had simply
TO suppress the beligeront red men
and very often they werc precious
lot of thieves and cut throats whom III
could attack without much pity. In al
emergencies the commander on the frontier
Is sternly required to do his duty and
cheerfully leaves the responsibility for the
fighting with the authorities who mis-.
manage Indian affairs General Crook wei
| earned his title of the great Indian
fighter and his operations against the
Apachcs showed wonderful energy and
perseverance,, but his management of these
Indians after he had suppressed them Is
quite as worthy of attention. A few men
like Crook In the Indian bureau would
soon put stop to that costly and trouble
some police duty OF the army in the West
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THE statistician of the department of ag-
riculture reports staple crops cheap b" be.
cause of over-production," and yet there
are plenty OF people who have to work hard
TO get enough to eat. II Is not over pro-
dnction but under consumption that causes
the trouble. If the people could con.
sumo as much food as they would like
to, farmers would be busy supplying
the demand. But unfortunately human
affairs are managed 80 badly by statesmen
that half the world cannot earn enough
money to buy the surplus food of the other
hall, and this In spite of high taxes for the
protection of labor.
We published on Friday modest re.
sponse Of our local poet, May Morrow, to
appreciative lines written by viii +. Nc
Spartan and recently published. In the
response tho line,--
IA mythic boon unfelt--unseenn
was printed to read "a mythic BOOM" No
doubt the compositor was wondering, as
he put tho verse In type, how 1t was that
80 delicate and musical a poem maker ms
May Morrow could escape a boom in popu-
lar appreciation. We publish to day more
lines by tho same hand, and can only wish
that half the poetry Of the day was half as
good.
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