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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Money Circulation and Business.
Mills Policy - Road to Ruin.

Furthermore the same lesson which
WI are being taught now, that enter
prise and prosperity are not the accom-
paniment of mere currency enlarge
inent. is a very old principle acknowl-
edged the world over and one which all
our financial history has been illustrat-
ing. The United States on the LIST of
January, 1892, had in active circulation
81, 5SS, 7Sl,7229 of currency; the govern
ment estimates tn, population on that
day AZ 64,6S0 600; consequently the per
capita currency in circulation January
l, 1892, was S24.56. On the LIST of Janu-
airy, 1879, when we resumed specie pay
ments, the circulation in the hands of
the people was only $S16,266, 72222, and
only $942, 452, 459 on January /, 1880;
the census gave the populationin 1881 at
5O.155,7S3; consequently the per capita
circulation January l, 1879. was not far
from $l6.27, and on January /, 1890, was
only SlS.79. To most of our readers
these figures are familiar, and yet they
cannot tie repeated too often, for the
trath they unfold is one which appears
still to need repeating. that the period
of greatest prosperity this country aver
enjoyed was not accompanied with q
large per capita circulation. If anyone
needs to be reminded of the degree of
prosperity at that time enjoyed, he has
only to look at the little table of failures
We published last week in our article on
that subject. The proportion Of failures
to tile number in business was only / in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
FOREIGN

ThE list of subscribers to the 3urgo.
masters fund at Vienna for the relief
of Ii unemployed, is headed by the
Emperor with a contribution of So, 500.
The Springer brothers gave SIS, 200. Tie
inhabitants of Arva, the northernmost
county OF Hungary, are suffering from
cpidemics of typhus and other deadly
diseases, in addition to the faminc
which is prevailing there. The people
are reduced to suchstraits for food that
they are compelled to eat the bark of
trees and pine cones. The President of
the lower house of the Austrian diet
has announced that he has made ar
ransements for sending relief to the
suffering people.
HAMBURG special: The officials of
the Hamburg-American Steamship Com-
pany have arranged to cooperate with
the Prussian authorities to inspect all
e%migrants coming from Russia destined
for the United States. The inspection
will be conducted by physicians before
they enter Prussia. Another inspection
will take place at the cmigrant lodgings
in Hamburg and another will be made
by physicians under the direction of the
United States Consul here before the
%cmigrants are allowed to go aboard she
steamers.
JOHN PAENELI, brother of the dead
Irish leader, has completed arrange
mcnts for. the sale at auction of the
Parnell estate at Avondalc. When this
has been effected he will return to the
United States. His home is in Georgia.
Avondalc has been in the possession OF
the parnells since the close of the sew.
entecnth century. 1t was not given to
them by Il grant, but was purchased
from some of Cromwell ASoldicrs, who
had received it after the great contisca-
tion.
vienna special: There has of late
been a rapid and alarming increase in
the number of crimes, most of them of
a serious character. committed in that
city. Many acts of violence and numcr-
Gus robbcrics are being reported to the
police daily. Nearly all these breaches
OF the law are found to he due to wide
spread distress which is prevalent here.
The l%aw-abiding citizens of the city
have become greatly alarmed for the
safety of their persons and property.
NOTICES have bccn postel in the
Canadian telegraph offices and other
places OF business. stating that Ameri-
can silver coin will not be acceptable
except at q discount of 5 per cent. The
postotficc will take the same action.
SAN SALVADOR special: The political
horizon is very dark. War clouds are
gathering OH the frontier. Guatemala
seems bent upon invading Salvador.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
THE WORLDS DOINGS.
Happenings Of a Week
i'm Condensed Form,
THE SEAL INDUSTRY.
RUIN AND DIFFERENTIATION AT
HAND.
IT tic English Ultimatum Is True the
Fur Seal Is acknowledgement should
Ascertain Whether Lord salisbury'.
Proposition Is Final OF Not.
Prof. Elliott,s Warming.


PROF. EIIloTr, the recognized author.
ity on the life and habits of the seal,
who spent many seasons in lehring sea
as q government agent Investigating
the whole matter, being asked to give u
statement as to the effcctof the English
ultimatum. says: ''If the alleged ulti.
matum is true the ruin and cxtermina.
ton OF the fur seal is at hand. Unless
the modus vivendi is renewed the poach-
ers Will Kill practically all the seals left
on the islands. The law now protects
these islands by prohibiting the lessees
from killing or molcsting any of the
seals, and the government has a large
force there to see that the law is Obcyed.
The seals as they exist there to-day are
III the ratio OF forty females to one male
All he surplus male life that can be
taken under the terms of the present
law next year will not number 40. 600
seals. Right on the ground there resi-.
500. 900 females. Large as this num-
Der is. it is only one-third of what /
located on the rookcries sixteen wears
ago.
Congress" Prof. Elliott continued,
'should ascertain ut once whether this
proposition of Lord Salisbury is final or
not. III it is, IL bill should be passed inn
Mcu';lucly repeating TIC law preventing
the killing OF female seals ON the isl
andS. III the Canadian and American
poachcrs arc to be allowed to kill The
female seals within thirty miles of the
islands, the law-abiding Americans on
the islands ought to pc allowed IL chance
to get their share. The poaclicrs will
pay the government nothing, but for
every seal killed on the islands the gov
eminent gets Il tan of $40. This money
should form Il fund for the maintenance
OF the unfortunate natives of the seal
islands. who arc wholly dcpcndcntupon
this industry.'
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Pottery is

The Baltimore Journal of C0-merce
for last month says the dealers w4.o inn
ported English and other wares large
ly, in expectation of an advance in
value on account of some changes in the
tariff, have been disappointed, for the
prices have not gone up, and the i'm
porters are out of pocket. The journal
then says:
One of the anomalies connected with tue
manufacture of pottery i'll the United
States is found in the fact that the increase
of duty on the article has resulted q an
Improvement of quality and Il reduction Of
cost OF from Cne-third to One-llalf TO the
consumer, thus confirming the views of
those who held that ''the tariff is not IL
tax and showing by the marvellous adj
vance in quality that the tariff is not a
'.premium OF medlocrity.'
Our manufacturers of pottery find that
the workman gets the entire amount of
the duty levied. and that naught but the
most careful management OF their affairs
can make it fairly rcmunerativc. At least
none OF our Baltimore Dotters are likely
in the present decade to reach that point
financially which would class those spok-
ell of as ''robber barons.''
The cost of pottery. from beginning to
end. is nearly 80 per cent. labor: this
makes its manufacture of great value to
any community. as it distributes a large
amount of money in the form of wages to
a class who spend most of it in the city
and it remains in circulation.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Brief i.oliticnl Notes.

Iris ablest and mostadroit newspaper
csgan ,of what it is pleased to call tariff
ra1Im' (The New York Tlmes) is op-
posed to the abolition of the McKinleyl
tariff on cotton ties because such j
change would inevitably transfer the
industry to England. + = That is
exactly what Mr.. Springer expects and
intends, dear Times, and you can't be
SO innocently ignorant as rot to know
it. Why, it isn't a week since Mr.. Mills,
who is much nearer to our ideas Of
a tariff leformer" than poor Springer,
dear Times-it isn't a week since Mr..
Mills admitted that his idea of a tariff
on wool was one which would transfer
to Europe the manufacture of $500, OOO:-
600 worth of woolens now made each
year in this country.-Noruich Bulletin.
British America, Mexico, Central
America and British Honduras and the
United States of Columbia-these are
our nearest neighbors on this continent
and our natural exports markets. The
free trade demagogues will tell the
Southern cotton planters this year that
the Mckinley law is robbing them of
the export market. And yet our ex-
ports of the cotton goods to these neigh
bors rose from $l.G2l.537
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
IN THE EAST.

PREPARATIONS for another Cubon rev.
%olution are said to be i'll progress in
New York and other American cities,
as we'll as upen the island itself. The
movement is stated TO be the largest
and most completely organized cver in-
oiiguratcd for Cuban independence.
BALTIMORE special: Cardinal Glib
bons has addressed Il circular letter to
the archbishops and bishops of the
United States, in favor of IL celebration
with religious observance in all the
Catholic dioceses in the United States
OF the 18th day of October next. COM
mcmorative of the discovery of Amer
lea.
ADAM FElGERr. of Wcinsburg, Ohio.
:or eleven years has bcen totally blind,
out by some strange freak of second
childhood Il few days ago the sight of
une eye returned. His first eyclama-
tion to his wife was: .'Mother, how old
YOU look" lie takes special pleasure
III carcssing his grandchildren, whom
he had never seen.
Thee MY1.ER, assistant postmaster of
M 'gheny, Pa, was arrested on the
ciargc of enlightenment and malfeas-
lIA u NiiiANs ~ - tlltSHd ltlt llC COII.
ri:d TO his own use money designed
:or special delivery stations, embczzlcd
IA ,ncy intended for uniforms of carriers.
,nd appropriated 10 himself portions of
: carries due To clerks and carriers. isSu-
lag iraUd,,lent Vouchers for the same
.".aTe bail for il hearing. Mr.. Mvler
i. II STU III cN-l oS;ruaStcr John A.. Myler.
IN ,MAs STEELE, receiver of the liti-
res, >,.ect Railway Company ut Indi-
i, .p"ii-. l..;i WAS unable tn start the
r.r -. he had sea,ncd Possession Of
-. ara. ,..r others having been
.'M. ~ ~ ne company. PRESIDENT
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
The Democratic DtIem,n,

49,.
He must have a DOOR nose for political
news who does not discover a great
change in the expectations and feelings
of both parties during the last few
months. Last October Democrats were
confident and boastful. There was not
much pretense about it; they counted
with absolute certainty upon victory in
Massachusetts and Ohio, as in New
York and several Western states, and
We're confident about Pennsylvania. 1t
is the truth that the Republicans were
hoped that Mckinley would pull
through, but hardly dared to trust their
own hone. To them the Alliance was a
thing unknown and greatly feared in
many Western states, while there was
even some apprehension about Penn
%sylvania. In short, the great defeat of
1890 still controlled the feelings and ex-
pectations of both parties. But to-day
R~epublicans are hopeful, and even
jubilant, while all intelligent Democrats
realize that the coming struggle is to be
desperate and doubtful, and each of
their two warning factions solemnly de-
clares and fully believes that certain de-
feat will attend the policy of the other.
Democratic journals do not like to
admit that their party is in an ugly di-
lemma. They prefer to regard the war
of factions as merely a personal strife
for Che leadership and the spoils. But
there is something deeper. If it were
only a question what policy the Demo-
cratic party woull pretend to adopt,
and then vote and work for, caring at
bottom only for the spoils, one might
expect the strife to end us usual, in the
adoption of a few tricky phrases, and in
a united and desperate effort ut the
polls for any candidate. But this time
Il victory will have to mean something
or none will lie won. Against an eva
sive anddodging Democracy the Repub-
leans are sure to win.
The reason is that two important
classes OF voters have a fixed purpose
that the next election shall mean some-
thing for their ideas and purposes. or
nothing for Democracy. The men who
want more money ard the scaling of
debts have with them the silver-mining
interest, the vague but yet potent mo-
ton that 1.-The gold bugs Of Wall Street"
have been. fleeing the country, and
the Alliance outbreak at the South.
About many things they disagree, or
are willing to wait.
But at the other end there is q body
of voters who mean a change of tasif.
have gone with the Democratic party
for years, though despising it, for that
reason only, and who are equally re-
solved that the next four years shall
mean q triumph for them or nothingto for
the Democratic party. Its incompe-
tence they have found hard to enduref
its bad taith and trickery toward those
who trust it have made them angry
often; its infamous election frauds seem
to them utterly in%tolerable, unless they
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Heating Apparatus ENplodcs.

TOPEKA, Has. special: While the
Santa Fc passenger train was on the
way to Topeka, the .hca,ing apparatus
i'll the smoker exploded with terrific
force. The passengers in the car were
hurled from their seats. Richards and
Alexander Erickson were so badly hurt
that thew afterwards died of their i'm
juries. Five others were painfully in
jurca. The car was completely wrecked
and it is IL wonder that more lives were
nat last
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
An Unfortunate INVITATION.

Some people mean we'll enough, but
they don't know exactly how to ex-
press themselves. A good motherly
woman, who moved from the scene Of
years ago, was revisiting her old home
last week. Glow do you like living in
the South ?' she was asked. "Oh, yery
much, if it were not that I miss my
Northern friends. Why don't you ever
come and see us?"
Her friend replied that she had been
very busy, but that she really would
make an effort to do so before long.
The kind face of the Virginian BY adop-
ton frightened up, and she cried:
"Well, l really wish you would: I've
often told my husband, We would be
glad to see sven q dog from home.
Now you will come soon, won't you Z"
fortunately the young lady who re-
tive. -
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
BLACKS AND WHITES FIGHT.

-Four Negroes Killed and four Badly In
.~iurcd-TwO White Men Wounded.
EDMONTON, Ky. special: News was
received here that Il bloody fight took
place at Park Gross Roads, five miles
east, between Il party of twelve white
transfers on one side and eleven negro
farm hands on the other. in which four
ncgros were killed, two fatally and two
seriously wounded, and two of the
whites also injured. The cause of the
trouble was that Il white teamster
''playfully' touched up Il G with IL
whip as he was passing him. The negro
and his friends attacked the whites
with the above result.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
An IrtsAnnsn Not in Harmony with Mis-
Party.

The Eon. Timothy j. Campbell, Dem
ocratic member of Congress from the
Eighth District of New York, has intro
duced a bill putting a duty of 10 per
cent. al salorem on all goods the pro-
ducts of countries east OF the Cape of
Good Hope, which are imported into
this country through foreign ports.
The Economist remarks: This bill isl
in the interest of American trade aud
shipping, and directly opposed to the
interests of London merchants and
walehousemen in general and Brj1iih
I've congratulate Mr.. Campbell and
his constituents on the fact that the ed
ftors of the New York Times and Even
ing Post will not sit up late nights to adj
Yocata his re-electinnN
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Tho Republican Tide Rising Everywhers

Tho Republican Tide Rising Everywhere.
Ex-senator Warner Miller. of New
York, one of the closest political OBJ
servers in the country, speaks in a very
hopeful vein about the prospect for Re-
publican success. He says:
New York State can be carried, - The
Republicans at the November eseS6,Ons.
There has been q tremendous reaction all
ty as nominated and ordered about by D9-
vld B. Hill. The exposures of Democratic
purposes at Albany. taken in connection
with the methods by which they obtained
control of the upper branch of the lcglsla
ture, have disguised large numbers of
Democrats, who will follow Hill to the
polls if necessary to defeat him. The best
feature, however, of the Democratic domi-
nation and legislation has been to
arouse Republicans to a pitch where
they will do their utmost to car
ry. the state, and will be able to
effect perfect nnitication for that purpose,
that will be irresistible. 1T is apparent at
the present time that Hill has killed Cleve-
land as Il Democratic presidential nominee,
but Clevcland's friends. by their %allti-carly
convention movement, have also killed Hill.
he may secure the nomination. but he GER
tainly will not secure the election. BY the
way. 1t is a most unfortunate spectacle for
the state of New York to be presided over
by a governor whose only answer to the
committee OF business men of the inctropO-
lis, who visited him to secure his influence
to increase the appropriation for New
Works exhibit at the Worlds FAIR was to
the state should be ruled by such q chief
executive
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

CNrOntCte.
Will Farmers support a Free Wool Party:
The farmers of the Western States.i in
GLIDING Ohio; West Virginia, Pennsyl-
vania. and all New England, can bear
testimony to the effect OF reducing the
tariff on wool. Some of the finest fiocks
ever known in the history of American
wool-growing have entirely disappear
ed, and the lands which were thus de-
voted to the production of sheep are
nov grain-raising farms, being COMPETE
tors in the larger field Of agriculture.
Who has been benefited by the tariff
reduction on wool in the last thirty
years? The decrease in the Rocks in
the foregoing states was, from 1875 to
New Eng. State, 1s5S So nm i, 1921 In Dee ere sss
Middle MID i"E sta s.s.e... 9;ssS; .sS a a.sse. 500 1, Sss.sSS
Western states...... 15.soi.sO IL. i2o.6s2 i.iso,67s
Being an absolute decrease of $685.
97S sheep.
During the same period we imported
wool from foreign countries to the
amount of nearly ST., 900. 600 sent out of
the United States for raw; wool alone.
Now, with the price declining grad
ualfy from 90 cents per pound in 1875, to
33 cents in 1880, we find that in five
years, 1855 to 1891, the total decrease in
the number of sheep in the United
States to be ver 100000, and during
this same five years there was imported
into this country more than 100000
head, paying Il duty of 30 cents each.
The backward state of sheep husband
r!y is wholly chargeable to- tariff tinker
ing. What is the remedy? Suppose
the farmers of the United States should
undertake to raise all the sheep We
need for wool and mutton. What would
be required? The United States Wool
Growers Association estimate that it
would require G0,0O0,0 900 more sheep in
this country. Now to feed and care for
this number, basing our estimate on
what is required for the 10, 100000 we
now have, it would take 40, O0O,O 600 acres
of land and would give employment to
some 100000 hands in caring for the
sheep and in the manufacturing of the
WOODEN goods we now import, which in
1855 We're invoiced at the custom-houses
at $685. 0o 900, this sum-, too, represent
ing an underva!uation of at least one-
half. With this idea in view the Nc
kinley bill placed u duty of S1.5O per
head on sheep instead of 30 cents, the
old law. This will cut off half a million
q year and give some encouragement to
sheep raising. Let the wool tariff of
1883 be restored and the hopeful things
Indicated in the foregoing w1l be con
a,1lnmatod
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Dragged from IN. rla,,orn.

Workers, n. y, special: Rev. MIR.
Conway. while attempting to preach
herc. was dragged from the platform
and put out of the building by the po-
llce. after a desperate struggle. The
police went to the hall Mt the request of
a person. who said that Conway was
about to make Il speech which would
..ntiSr trnuhln
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

y AARON KIMBALL LoR1NG is one Of tho,
"characters' of Boston. He keeps =
bookstore into which Emerson used 10
drop for an idea, John Lothrop Motley
for q reference, Prescott, the historian.
for an old chronicle, Lowell for q new,
book Of poems and Holmes for his cur.
rent literature.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
Poisoned Her Step-uhtIurcn

AT llopAinsvil!e, Ky. Mrs. Jennie
Durrell (colorcd) is under arrest for the
poisoning of her three stcp-childrcn.
The children are in Il critical condition.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

ClosEF1sr, sR.-when 1 WAS your a..
I wasn't Q mule, % you Seem to Be.
C~losefst, Jr.-Evidently not; thu
father Of . mule usually isn't.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
n eleven months OF 1890 to

in eleven months Of 1881.
The average price of English tin plal
plus the American duty, for the tel
years from 1881 to 1890 inclusive, accord
ing to the Birmingham authority, "R.I
lands Iron Trade Circular" was $5.i
per box. The price in 1881, with III
new duty added, according to the SAM
authority, was S..
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
QUICK ROADS TO RUIN.
WILL TIL: FARMERS SUPPORT
THE FREE WOOL PARTY?

Tide Rising Everywhere-
cratic Dilemma-Pottery 10 Cheaper
The Case of an irishman-Brief Poll
tical Notes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

per box. That doesn't look as thoup
the tin plate tariff were a tax, does il
What do you think ola man who would
kick against an increase in duty which
didn't hurt him any more thanle than
nothing, and which gives employment
to many?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

every 1853 in 1850, 1 in everv 40 in 1881,
and 1 in every 100 in 1882. We have
seen nothing OF that kind since the last
named year; the per capita currency
has been growing every year, and yet
the best record that table gives after
1852 is l failure in every lob in 1887, and
! failure in every 102 in lS90.-Enancial
Chronicle
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11

are to bring a victory for tariff re-
form" To these men the nomination
of anybody except Mr.. Cleveland will
mean q betrayal and an insult, and fail.
ure to put the tariff Issue foremost will
send them out of the Democratic camp.
Democracy would ride both horses,
and straddle and Jungle as usual, if it
could. But this time it cannot. The
great body of Jealous free traders OF
"tarif' reformers" in Northern states,
and especially the Germans, area i'm
tersely hostile to free coinage.
practical business men among M1etn
know that it would bring ruin. The
blind worshipers Of British economic
theories detest the silver fanaticism as
much as they do protection. So, it has
come to this: The Democratic party
must face defeatin New York, Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts, Ohio, and every>
Eastern state except perhaps New Jer.
sey, if it commits itself to Tree coinage,
or fails to put the tariff foremost. But
it must face defeat through the West,
and in some Southern states, unless it
puts the money question foremost,
shelves Mr.. Cleveland, and makes q
genuine fight for free silver coinage.
That is the real nature of the dilemma,
and it is not strange that Democrats are
discouraged.-Nev York Tribune.