Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-05
BOOM In FULL BLAST.
AN INDEX OF uNexAMPLeo
PROSPERITY.


Dealers In Agricultural Implements
Report a Lively Business Through.
out the Northwest-Goo Times for
Farmers-Trusts Should Be Doomed.
An index of the uneXampled prosper
ity now inundating the farming re-
gions of the great Northwest is fur
nished by the lively boom that is being
experienced by dealers in agricultural
implements. Last year was an eXtraor-
dinarily good year for the sale of all
kinds of farm machinery. During the
previous period of depression there had
been u very appreciable check to the
normal demand for this class of mer-
chandise. The farmers manifested a
disposition to make the old machines do
the work and worry along without any
expansion of their equipment until bet
ter times came. The good times that
they had been hoping for came shortly
after President McKinley's Inaugural
ton.
Last year the demand that had been
bottled up for five years or thcreabouts
broke loose. Factories, distributors and
dealers were pretty well swamped with
orders. Early in the harvest season the
manufacturers of %harvesters announced
that they would be unable to fill any
more orders. Had it not been for the
slow maturing of the crops in this vi
entity serious Inconvenience would
have been caused by the scarcity of har-
vesting machines. All lines of farm i'm
plement manufacturing shared in the
boom.
Being the first year of general buying
after several years of economizing it
was naturally supposed that 1898 would
continue to figure as the high water
mark of implement buying for many
years of simply normal demand. Par
ticularly was it predicted that the re-
action would certainly make this year
Il poor one in that line of business.
These predictions are not going to be
verified. The year 1890 is going to set
IL new high water mark in the agricul-
tural implement trade. Manufacture
ers and distributors report that so far
this year their shipments of farm ma
chinery have been from 20 to % per
cent larger than in the supposedly ban
ner year of 1898. With good weather
and fair crop prospects during the
spring the showing will increase rather
than diminish during the year. Fac
tories are working day and night to fill
the orders that are pouring in. Distrib-
utors have welcomed the late unfavora-
BILE weather, for it has given them time
to fill orders for machinery to be used
in spring work that would otherwise
have had to go untitled. The boom is
on in full blast agnin.
1t will be n little curious to see how
the fellows who insist on trying to con-
strue present conditions into .'sham
prosperity" will explain this reliable in
dication of real prosperity among the
farmers of the Northwest. The theory
that was applied to the wage raising
movement-that 1t was n bribe to labor
rendered by the trusts-will hardly hold
good in this case.-SiouX City Journal.
All Volunteers Can Come Home.
President Mckinley has administered
q crushing blow to all the anti-adminis-
tration howlers, in his order that all
the volunteer soldiers who desire to
leave the service must be promptly
given discharge. The treaty with Spain
has finally been concluded, and on the
very day the ratification of the peace
treaty occurred all the army command
ers were notified that the war with
Spain has been settled with a treaty
Of peace and all the volunteer soldiers
in Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippines
and elsewhere, who desire to return
home must be honorably discharged
from the army with the least possible
delay. President Mckinley has kept
faith with the people and with the SOL
diers. The order for the discharge Of
all the volunteer soldiers who desire to
return home is sufficient explanation
Of the reason why the regular army
has been rushed to the Philippines DUR
ing the past three months, and s."'
further proof of the Presidents new.
varying desire to carry the will Of the
people into effect.-Des Moines Regis
ter.
Ervan in His Blindness.
Little wonder is it that the Jeffer.
sonian Democrats of the East are call
ing for q new party leader with the
courage of his convictions and with
intelligence to grasp the difficulties Of
the present situation. Little wonder is
it that the disciples Of Jefferson and
Jackson repudiate the leadership of
Bryan when he poses as a n~erveless
demagogle, as he did at Milwaukee.
Mr.. Bryan is trying to commit the
Democratic party to IN dut-andout
anti-anncxation policy. If lie is to
make the platform and be the Presi-
Dental candidate of his party in 1900
the Democrats will enter the campaign
antagonizing the principles and policy
of Jefferson and devoid Of the sturdy
Americanism Of Jackson.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
Trusts Are Everywhere.
There are trusts in Germany, Austria.