Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-04-06

dustriously looking for wheat 60 Son.
pete with American wheat to keep
prices down. Russia, India and South
America are formidable rivals. The
Argentine Republic exported 1900.
600 bushels in 1892, $1,000. 600 bushels in
1893 and is estimated to have an ex-
portable surplus of ovsr co. 900, 900 this
year. 1t Is not so good as American
wheat. but it will mix and can be sold
5 or = cents Q bushel less. even at the
present low prices. The home market
Is still q more promising field than all
the rest of the world.-Terre Haute
Express.
The War OH Pensioners.
The veterans of the Union armies
deprived of tneir pittances by Mr..
Cleveland's Secretary of the Interi r,
through un .ust and arbitrary intcrpre-
tations Of the pension laws. are not
likely to derive consolation from tho
fact that the millions of dollars with
held from them will indirectly go to
benefit British manufacturers and inn
porters. 1t is openly stated a. WASH
from those who had borne the battle
and their widows and orphans" the
provision promised to them in behalf
Of the nation by Abraham Lincoln is
to help the eX-Confe crates in Con-
federates in Congress to cut down
duties us much Us possible in the Will
son bill Thus the Congressman from
backwOOds and bayOus are able to pay
a double debt of gratitude and re-
venge-gratitude to the British for as
sistance in trying %todestroy the Union,
and revenge on the Union soldiers who
prevented the Union from being de-
stroyed. The Wilson bill gees in hai-
ness with Hokc Smiths management
of the pension Office, and both ara
| equally hostile to the North, which is
loyal and on the other for being i'm
dustlious.
There may be Union veterans who
voted for Grover Cleveland in 1892,
and who really believed that the
leopard could change its spots and the
Democracy be friendly to the soldier.
By this time such veterans have come
to a wiser understanding of triumphant
Democracy.-New York Press.
benjamin Harrison. Orator.
While en- route to the Pacific coast ex-
President Harrison was called upon q
number of times to address the people
on the issues of the day. Although
out of public life, Mr.. Harrison still
takes great interest in political affairs
and is now, as during his term of Office
and before, fully In touch with all the
questions that are interesting the peo-
pie. He is still the same incompa,a-
bic Offhand speaker, ~instructlng his
auditors and holding them engaged to
the end. During the course of . brief
talk at Kansas City he said:
have not seen any reason to abate one
jOt OF the confidence with which I hold the
principles that l endeavored TO put into
practice during the four years ! was i'm
trusted with public office. do not think.
just now. that those principles much need
the tongue OF an advocate. Experience Is
making an argument In support OF the
most forcible speaker I know OF. He has no
gift o: oratory. but he drives his argument
home. 1 hope you here have escaped some.
what those depths of depression which are
now prevailing throughout the country.
He reafirmed his belief in the
policy of protection and asked the
people to contribute of their. substance
to the support of the poor, for "beyond
the breakers there is smooth water
and smooth sailing. but it is rough
sailing now, as we all know" The ex-
i AOoAOOuV A0o 1AOU 1OoU ul10 hUll1Uy w
make of1hand speeches that go straight
to the heart of the people. At vari-
ous points in Colorado he was called
out to speak and everywhere responded
in his W felicitous style.
The Time for Free Seed.
1t will be remembered that in his
last message to Congress, President
Cleveland gave expression to radical
sentiments upon tho seed question.
Under the san .tion of existing leRis-
lation," he said, "there was sent out
from the Agricultural Department dur
ing the last fiscal year enough of cab
bage seed to plant 10, 200 acres of land.
q sufficient quantity of beans to plant
1000 acres. beet seed enough to plant
$500 acres. sweet corn enough for 100
acres" and so on, ending in this inter-
e,ting elimination: "lhe total guam
tity of flower and vegetable seeds thus
distributed was contained in more than
nine million packages, and they were
sufficient, If planted, to cover 8Y,6S3
acres of land" In view of these figures,
the President asked Congress to stop,
or at least to abridge, its achievement,
in seed distribution.
The matter is important just now,
because this Is the season for the send
ing out Of the packages. The WASH
ington News says many congressman