Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
FRIEND TO FARMERS.
SECRETARY WILSON so REcoo.
.NlzED BY AGRiCuLTURlSTs.
liberal Extracts from an Address by
the .Ablc Head of the Agricultural
+ D~enart,nent A Practical Talk by a
v9fS Practical Man.
Greatness of Our country,

V96$ Practical Man.
Greatness of Our Country.
1t is time that Americans fully realized
the relative greatness of their own people,
with 81 view to fuller comprehension of
their ability to make "a market. They
are the best educated, best fed. best hous-
Ell, besf clothed and farthest Travelled 49,
OOO.0o0 OF people i'll the world. If the laws
interfere with their industries in any way,
.favorins their competitors abroad, inter-
jfering with their power to purchase TO-
ward education. nutrition, lodging. cloth
& ing and traS&as we have seen for
4 the four yeafs&A $,lcir power to make
a marie; is l6Ss&rcd correspondingly.
Prosperity has come naturally: public
policies have been changed: the workers
are employed: they buy more literally;
= tire farmer gets better prices: he puts the
, wQricc of his crops into circulation; the
\ Scllrrcnt WARNS ZIP all the veins of COM
vNiglerce; the twenty millions of farmers buy
kAlnore literally of all household and other
E0l.modit;es: The wholesale merchant
Heels the quickening influence and puts
nOrc agents on the road: the country mer-
Plant whose stocks AVE been low for
hears rcplcnisleS his shelves, and this
%gtyes orders To the manufacturer. who
EHH3nploys more labor and skill; the busy
MOrkrncn have money TO buy the farmers
md other products. all of which make the
b8oOd times we enjoy. The beginning of
III this WAS the change of public policy
ma was ordered last November by the
lpeppic when they elected Gov. Mckinley
{Eresiiont. the keeping Of our jobs nj
lone for our own people. and the keep
Ing of the money az home to pay out to
our own people.
President McNinlcy's administration
has SET ab1At the Introduction of prosper
= tty among all classes of people by II COM
ysererchange of public policy. That change
Us bringing good results already. TIN first
effect is better prices for farm products.
1t is said that the scarcity of wheat
nbrond is the cause of better prices here.
Conccdc that for the sake of the argu-
melAt. Why are other grains higher, with
ySbeef. mutton. pork, wool and other farm
products: The voters who changed pub
JIG policies II year ago nave confidence in
kfhe change of administration. They are
Bba3lle moving power of the republic. They
edo the bulk of its business. They are ia
sNss4niliar with American history for Il cen
tury and Il quarter, as affected by pro-
lection to home industries and the want
'of it. They arc not ready to take Il step
toward the experience of the last four
\ ySuiS. nv uutStlOIS tIltt were SSltltu ii
year ago will! stay settled while this gem
eration lives. and the cost of sending our
Y Jobs abroad and starving ovr workers ut
home is fresh in our memories.
Effect of Changes of Policy.
The effect of the changes of public pol
cy on agricultural interests is we'll illus
rated by the changes in the prices of our
.3arln stock and farm products. The de-
y crease in the value of the horses has been
very great during the past ten years.
Superficial observers tell us that the sub
\ stitution of steam and electricity on street
cars for horses has made this change.
Y But there are other factors that have been
at work during this decade to destroy the
value of horses. The United States
changed IFS public policies in the mean
nj Industries along all lines were par
-alyZed, because our workmen were turned
out of employment. They were not able
to buy farm products, the factories be-
n came idle. and the farm horses were not
wanted about the factories, in the towns,
nor anywhere i'll the United States, as
h much as formerly. If the value of horses
were reduced during this change of public
policy. and the prices of other materials
remained the same, VIC would be COM
PEELED to conclude that some other cause
than general depression had lowered the
price of horses. but we will find in looking
over the productions of this great State
that everything else pertaining to the
farm decreased in value mt the same time.
The farmers We're left with large sur.
pluses OF their hands. Unfortunately for
us, our horses could not be put to any
~~great extent upon the worlds market, be.
cause we had been producing such horses
IA pleased us. and not such horses rs the
world demanded outside of the United
States. The worlds market for horses
fixed the prices for us, and We had so few
that the world wanted to buy. that prices
dropped to an improbable figure. If We
had been producing heavy draft horses
: coach horses and saddle horses, European.
would have bought them at high prices
They have agents in this country, ant
have had them for many years, searching
for the kind of horses l have named, bu
are not able to find them as PLENTIFUL,
as they desire. We are undoubtedly. abb,
to produce horses i'll the United State.
cheaper than any other country can pro
duce them, because we have the cheapes
grains and grasses, good water, and intel
1tgent people to rear them. 1t is n cues
ton for the farmers in the future ms /,
I how they shall breed and develop thei
horse stock.
Sugar Bccts.
We pay 500, 100000 each year for su
4 gar, made to n great extent from suca
beets grown i'll Continental Europe. sine
the Cuban war began. People will re
member that when President McKinle,
was chairman of the Ways and Mean
Committee in the House of Representa-
lives some years ago. he secured legisla
: ton in the interest of the farmer, givin
encouragement to the growing of suga
beets. The attention of American farm
ers was drawn toward that industr,
Arrangements were made. to test the ca
pacity of our soils in all parts of the Unit
ed States. Some factories were built, an
within a reasonable time all the u 2
Americans require would have been mad
in the United States. Sugar, like but
ter, consists of labor and sunshine. TIL
price of labor would have been raised al
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