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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
A Stneie ~lnstancc.

Evidences of improved business condi-
tons I found in almost every spot in the
United States. A single instance Of this
is given by Congressman Weaver Of Ohio.
who says OF. the village of Troy, in that
State, that the output Of the wagon works
at that place in August, 1897, was 49,
200, against S 5000 in August of last year;
in September, 1897, $17,700, against 3d.
600 in September OF last year; in October,
1897, $26,4OO, against $500 in October
Of last year. The Piqua rolling mill. To-
Gated in the same district, reports q larg-
er sale of iron in the last seventeen weeks
than of the entire year of 1896.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Expectations Increase Under Ding.
ley Law.


Not even the satisfaction is left to the
free trade Democrats of saying that the
Wilson law was better for the exporters
of American manufactures than the Ding
ley law. They thought they had things
dead to rights on this score, and that as
soon as the new law went into operation
they would be able to point to the decrease
in the expectations of American manu-
fnctures, but in the very first month of
the new laws operations the expectations
of manufactured articles were larger than
in the corresponding month of any for
mer year. This is disappointing to these
gentry, and somewhat amusing, in con-
nection with their walls of regret that
such q wicked measure should be enacted
us the Dingley law, which would cut off
our foreign markets,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Good Ttmes for Farmers.

Comptroller Eckels of the Treasury De-
partment says that the conditions through
out the country are most satisfactory.
The improvement has come rapidly and
permeates all lines of industry. 1t began
with the agricultural classes. The farm
ers have good crops and are getting high
prices for them. The cattle raisers are
benefited by u substantial rise in the price
of cattle. The same is true with the sheep
raiscrs. This improvement in agricultural
earnings has had it's effect on the rail-
roads by increasing their earnings. 1t
has put money into circulation and has
enabled people to discharge their debts
and thereby benefited the merchants.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
No Retaliation.

Not SO much is being heard now from
Democrats as o short time ago about the
retaliation of foreign countries against
the provisions of our new tariff measure.
A great deal was said about the injury
to our export trade which would result
from the action which foreigners would
feel obliged to take to Offset the results
of the new tariff; but official figures now
show that our exports Of grain and man
ufacfured articles continue right along
in spite Of the new tariff, and, in fact,
that they are increasing rather than de
creasing under 1t.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
He Disaerees with Bryan.

"Those who, ut the dictation Of their
own enemies, disregarded their old friends
and attempted to revolutionize the creed
of their old party will justly be held re-
sponsible for all the results that have here
tofore followed or shall hereafter follow
their departure from Democratic princi-
pies and traditions, and we who have re-
fused to desert the old standard and coal
esce with the advocates Of fiatism, social
ism, protectionism or any other form of
government %paternalism can well. afford
to stand where we are and wait for de-
liverance which is sure to come."-Ex-
Secretary Carlisle
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Populists Tired OF Democracy.

1IreU OF OeInOCF0Cy.
Further fusion between Populism and
Democracy grows more unpopular in the
South as the months pass. Congressman
Howard Of Alabama, a prominent MEM
Der Of the Populist party. said in a re-
cent interview in Cincinnati: SIT will be
iompssible to get the support Of our party
for Mr.. Bryan again. Populists will not
be drawn into the support of Democratic
candidates. We have been betrayed by
the Democrats, and it will be impossible
for them to use u party again in a ma
tional election"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
We Welcome Maryland.

Maryland, by her recent Republican vic
tory, now assumes a permanent position
in the Republican column. In three sue
cessive ycars-'95, '96, '97-the Republic
rams have, in hard-fought campaigns on
both sides, carried the State by good
majorities. so that many leading politi-
clans of both parties now look upon Mary
land as a safe Republican State. This is
another evidence Of the steady growth Of
sentiment in favor of Republican princi-
pies in the South, as well as the North,
the Republican representation from the
South in the House having grown from
year to year until it is now larger than in
any previous year in the history Of the
country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Blind, but still SHOUTING.

world are now producing more than
enough gold to furnish the currency nee
essary to keep pace with the growth Of
population does not disturb the silver
mine owners. who are clamoring for the
use of their metal for currency. 1t has
recently been shown that the cost of pro-
ducing the amount of silver required for u
silver dollar is on an average about TWEEN
ty cents, but Notwithstanding this they
go calmly on insisting that their metal
shall be used for making dollars ut a
cost of twenty cents apiece, despite the
fact that sufficient gold is now being min
ed to meet the requirements of commerce
and business. b.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Teller's Deadly Competitor"

TeIIeF's b CoInpetl0h."
Senator Teller will soon be able to lay
away on the upper shelf of his library that
much-worn sentence about the deadly
competition" which the silver-using coun-
tries are making against the United
States in international commerce. Rus
sia, Japan and several of the South Amer
lean silver-using countries have all gone
to the gold standard since Mr.. Teller
started his deadly competition argument
into the field, md now word comes that
China is about to follow in the same line,
thus leaving Mexico and q few South
American countries u only deadly COM
netiton."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Political Bird-shot.

1t was an "off year" in Ohio for the
other fellows.
Mr.. Bryan and ex-Gov. Boies are stirl
on speaking terms.
Mr.. Bryan is probably thinking now Of
the blasted furnaces.
The free silver sun has set and the fret
silver wave has receded.
The Hon. Arthur P. German is con.
templating retiring to private life.
The rails in the Western country are
bright and shining. with the heavy freight
traffic.
There have been two "off years" in
Ohio. This year and last year-for the
Democrats.
Some of his speeches would indicate
that Mr.. Bryan wore smoked glasses
while in Ohio.
Chairman Jones still sticks by ex-candi-
date Bryan, and says that silver is all
right al an issue.
The Mexicans will forgive Mr.. Bryan
for going to Ohio first il he will make his
next call OF them.
How about that Dingley law Chinese
WALTZ. 1t doesn't interfere, apparently,
with our export trade.
The freight traffic Of the West keeps the
rails bright. Railroad rails; not Popo-
cratic rails against prosperity.
The Mexicans missed the greatest OPP
p~ortunity Of their lives when William
Jennings didn't visit them.
The waves of Republican prosperity
continue to wash away the planks from
the silvercratic Chicago platform.
Mr.. Bryan made numerous speeches
during bis recent tour through Ohio, but
reading 0ne was reading them all.
Facts, figures and prosperity IRE rum
ming along hand in hand and they are all
giving the free trade silver croakers trou-
Mr.. Bryan's Ohio speeches showed that
he is still Joined to his idols, despite the
fact that everybody else is abandoning
them.
One hundred thousand tons OF Alabama
coal have recently gone to Mexico for TIA
use Of her locomotives. Good for the
South.
It is to be expected that Democrats win
deny that the Dingley law has anything
to do with the return of prosperity to the
country. n
The Ohio counties In which Mr.. Bryan
poke In the hate campaign increased their
Republican majorites 997 votes over
those Of last year.
Last year, in u commercial relations
with Great Britain, the balance Of trade
incur favor was greater than in any pre-
vious year in history.
Under President Cleveland the per can.
ita circulation In the country fell 10
$21.10, but It has Increased under Presi-
dent Mckinley to $22.S0.
The Democratic New, York Journal
says that gold is on its way to New
York md the tide OF domestic Knanufac-
turing interests rises higher each day. The
railroads are blocked snpewith theycrukhXf
business .alls NyiHe.r
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Increased wheat Exports.

Everything seems to be going against
free silver theorists. Despite the refusal
of the United States to adopt the free
coinage of silver, the farmers Of the coun-
try received more than twice as much for
the September sales of wheat as in Sep
TENDER of last year. The September ex-
ports of wheat, according to Dun's Re-
view, were 2 ,S68,9SS bushels, against
17,646,S15 bushels in September, 1896,
but owing to higher prices this year the
money received for these expectations
was more than double in 1897 than in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Customs REGENTS Increasing.

The receipts from the new tariff law
now show an increase over-the receipts
of the Wilson law ut a corresponding date
last year. The treasury officials expect
by the first of the year that the receipts
will be sufficient to meet current expenses
of the Government. This will be a novel
experience to such clerks us have been in
the Treasury Department only since the
beginning of Cleveland's last administra-
tion. "
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
He speaks His Mind.

"Uncle Hold" Boies cannot be kept still.
All of the threats and p%ersuasions Of his
Democratic associates will not induce
him to any longer support the free COIN
age proposition Of the Democratic plat
form of last year. He is out in a new
and vigorous communication, in which he
says that while he wants to see silver
used as currency, he is satisfied that the
proposition for its free and unlimited COIN
age at a ratio so different from the COM
mercial ratio would be not only injudi-
cious. but fatal. -i
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
No Satisfaction for Free Traders

Free traders who expected support for
their peculiar views from the English
statistician, Mulhall, will be disappointed
to know that he has taken pains to point
out the fact that the expectations of the
United States have increased three times
as fast as has her population during the
protective tariff period. Mr.. Mulhall
shows in a recently published article that
while the increase in population in the
past twenty years has been 50 per cent,
the increase in the value Of expectations
has been 175 per cent, and practically oil
that under a high protective tariff.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Dinciey Law FulnlIs Promises.

The Dingley law is doing all that its
trainers promised for it up to this time.
The November receipts will average near
ly II million dollars per day for each
business day of the month. All of this is
accomplished without any material reve-
nue. from the duty OH sugar, as the i'm
porters are now using up their large stock
of that article which was imported before
the new law went into effect. 1t is esti-
mated that the revenue from the duty on
sugar when the present stock is exhaust
ed will average $ 5,0O0,OOO a month, which
Of itself will be sufficient to bring the
revenue up to Il sum equal to the ordinary
expenditures. With the increase which
will come from other articles, such as
wool, wooden goods and other manufac-
lures with which the country had been
filled, it is now perfectly apparent that
the revenue produced under this law will
be ample to net only cover all the ex-
penses OF the Government, but replace the
losses under the Wilson law.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
A New Officer.

The new Commissioner on Reciprocity.
Mr.. John Kasson, is especially fitted for
the position to which he has been appoint
ed. He is an eminent diplomat and when
serving as minister to Austria, and, also,
as minister to Germany, rendered valua-
BILE service to this country from a COM
mercial standpoint. Mr.. Kasson is now
engaged in getting his new department
into running order.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
A Bryanitio Fizzle.

The Bryan experiment in Ohio during
the closing days of the campaign there
was a fizzle. In the counties in which he
held forth to the delighted farmers the
Republican majorities averaged about a
hundred greater than last year. II Bryan
had spoken 'from every stump" as orig
inally announced, what. would have been
the result?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Why Are They silent?

1t was thought that the mails and wires
would be kept hot and humming with re-
ports MS to why Japan ought not to have
adopted the gold standard, as n result of
the trip Of a certain trio of American sill
yer statesmen who took a vacation in
Japan ut the expense of the silver trust,
but the American people have again been
doomed to disappointment and not a word
has been heard from these patriots.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Largest i'm History.

The report Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission adds to the weight Of evil
dence already ut hand Of an improved
business condition of the country. It
shows that the freight tonnage Of the last
year is the largest Of any year in the his
tory Of the country, being 100000 tons
greater than that Of last year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10

English manufacturers must cheaper
their cost OF production IL they are to
hold their ground against the American
competitor. And all this is happening
under the Dingley law, of which the free
traders said, three months ago, that its
effect would be to close foreign markets
to American commerce, and especially
manufactures.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Joint Tour off Stars.

Who is responsible for the statement
that champion Fitzsimmons and ex-cap-
didate Bryan are to make a starring tour,
Fitzsimmons tosdo the sparring and Bry-
an the starring? This would make a
strong team in view of Fitzsimmons'
well-known popularity and Bryan's ex-
ceptional success Of hate in making
speeches at county fairs for a share Of the
gate receipts,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
no Not Follow . Bad Example.

DO Not Follow . Bad Example.
It may be well enough for the Demo-
Gratis to assume that the Ohio Republic
cans are going to quarrel among them
SELVES over the s~enatorship, but they will
be mistaken. Republicans are not given
to treachery, although they have had the
Democratic example for many years.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
His Logic Doesn't Convince.

MI. Bryan explains" very .satisfac-
torily, to himself, why silver has fallen a
fifth Of its value since he was roaming
the country last year, while at the same
time wheat has advanced 80 per cent in
value, but 10Y and then he runs up
against a farmer whb can't zee through
his logic. It is remarkable how some
farmers can't be.c| Tinced. y
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Mexican Bryanite Prosperity

Mexican Bryanite Prosperity.=:
When q Mexican takes IS in Mexican
silver, for every dollar Of which he has to
work as hard as his American brother
works for his gold dollar, and buys with
it goods worth So in American gold, that
is Mexican Bryanite prosperity. The
workingmen Of this country don't want
any Of it in theirs.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
KnoWs Q DeaI Doe.

.|I AtIVW0 Oc0W LUX
Your Uncle "Hod" Boies has made an
other statement to. the effect that "the
Chicago platform is at variance with the
whole theory Of our form of government"
Now, Uncle Hold was supporting the plat
form last year, but he knows a dead dog
when'he sees 1t, and he would like to rally
the party to some other issue.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Increased Circulating Medium.

Something over a year ago Mr.. Bryan
was stating that the only way to increase
the circulating medium of the country
was by the adoption of the free coinage Of
silver, and yet the treasury figures show
that to-day there are millions and millions
more money in circulation than when this
stntefnent was made.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
ENGLAND Buys American Goods

The growing demand in England and
other foreign countries for American man.
ufactures is commented on BY the Lon
don Economist, which says, I'm a recent
that England ID, becoming a large
purchaser ~ American manu- actures, es-
lsseSllsEAAairon and steelsli1esF3nds t6et,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
Amouut.I1ost by Farmera.

A statement compiled from the oficiali
records Of the Government prepared by q
free trade Democrat show that during
Cleveland's last term the farmers Of the
country lost more than a billion dollars
a year by decreased consumption and de-
creasedsYalues Of products.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
They wish Thoy d

It Is understood that n good many Of
the gentlemen who had to do with the
framing Of the Chicago platform Of 1896
now regret that they are not In q position
to Join Uncle Horace Boies in his self
congratulation that he was not q par
ticibant In that incident.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10

Asia Becoming Our Market.
The Bulletin Of the Bureaus OF American
Republics contains some interesting fig
lresl showing the extent to which . mar
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10
silver Cannot Complain,

silver Cannot Complain:
The Treasury Department. is response
BILE for the statement that there 10 now
in the world $4,235,900,0OO in silver
money, and that Of that amount IS per
cent is full legal tender. This looks as
though silver had not been Disseminated
against to any great extent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-12-10

made by the people in 1892 resulted in the
repeating of this legislation by Congress
in the Wilson, German act Of 1894, stop
ping this industry. The Dingley bill, en-
acted by the extra session of the present
Congress, has again revived the hopes of
the American people. There is a pros.
pect nowt that this $1OO,OOO,OOO will, with
in IL few years, be kept ut home to be dis
tributed among the working people
throughout the country. One question
the American farmer must always have
i'll mind. and that is, the steady employ
ment Of our laboring people. We are
workers ourselves. Those who employ
labor in other lines would feel the effect
of these new industries. Labor would
he more in demand md get better prices
because of the distribution of this $780,
Wo,oOO among our people. 1t will be an
opportunity, valuable to the farm not only
Ill the diversification of crops, but with re-
gard to its benefit to the dairy. The by
products of beet factories will be as val
unble for feeding to the dairy COW as the
sugar beet would be before taken to the
factory. because the bulk of staple
crops has more carbonaceous matter than
the dairy COW requires. The factories only
Use the cnrbonaceous part of the beet,
leaving the heterogeneous matter entirely
Ill the pulp. ~ great impetus will be Civ
cn to dairying in the United States. The
sugar industry will enable the farmer to
find this necessary element of COW feed.
and the farmer. when he takes a load of
hcets to the factory, will bring back n load
of pulp and save it up against the time
when lie needs to feed it. Note the effect
of the two policies as they bear upon the
farmer and his prosperity. The theory
of the IL is that we should buy i'll the
cheapest market. We tried that during
the last administration. The theory of
the other is TINT we should produce i'll the
United States everything that IL soil
and climate are capable of producing. We
remember distinctly the effect of this pol
icy under all Republican administration.
We are getting an earnest of the effect
of it now under the present administra-
tion.
Protection Establishes New Industries
That protection establishes new indus
tries we have had II lively illustration
within the past few years. In 1891 we
had no tin manufactures in this coun-
try; we imported 1896, 4S9,O74 pounds.
President Mckinley placed ID cents n
pound on tin coated iron and steel. That
act has created nearly POO tin plate mills.
In 1891 we imported $25,9OO.3O5 worth.
For the fiscal year ended June 30. 1890,
VIC only imported $11.4S2,3SO worth. We
import 10Y for special uses only; very
soon VIC will not import my.
The ideal condition to be reached is such
divcrsitication of industry that the farm
or will find Il home market for most of his
products. The establishment of every
new industry brings us nearer to that
ideal. 1t is estimated that 10000 people
are directly and indirectly employed in
the tin plate industry. They are new
customers here for the American farm
ers that we formerly fed ut arms length
in other countries.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-07
STATE NEWS.

The North Carolina Presbyterian has
been bought by stock company and
will Ike moved to Charlotte.
Mr.. Rufus e. Austin. a prominent
lawyer of Albemarle, was married on
Wednesday to Miss Pattie Ross, Rev.
i. l.. Johnson. officiating.
The. produce. the produce! The sup
ply seems almost inexhausttable. Ship
ments were larger last week than ever
before. 1t is estimated that Mount
Airy will ship this season nearly 1000
car lpads.-Mt. Airy News.
The Democrat says lady of Samp-
son county sold a bale of cotton ten
years old mt Clinton few days ago.
She grew the bale on her farm ten years
ago when cotton was worth II cents.
She held it for 12 cents and the price
kent going down. She finally sold it at
about 5h cents.
An Arson man tells the Monroe En-
quirer that at the show in Wadeshorn
last Saturday fakirs took in $1.400 for
which the people had nothing to show
The gentleman said that the amount
reported was not MI that was taken.
but peaple who had heen struck ac-
knowl.,ge1 losing that mnch. So
ny Walter r. Ashp. n leading physi-
clan "f Lebanon. Ohio, was married
this week to Elizabeth Coke Fetter. I'll
Wade<horo. daughter of Rev. Charle,
Fetter.. rector Of Cavalry Episcopal
church. who performed the ceremony IN
his church. II, was N brilliant wedding
The bridal compile. with Mrs. Mary
Ashe. left nm the Seabo vestibuie FOR
Lebanon, Ohio.