Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-04-27
BOOM IN FULL RLAST.
AN INDEX OF UNExAMpLED
PROSPERITY.
Dealers in Agricultural implements
report Lively Business Ihraagh-
out the Northwest Good Times for
Farmers-Trusts should Be Doomed.

Farmers-Trusts should Be Doomed.
An index of the unexampled prosper
lty 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 very appreciate 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
tion
Last year the demand that had been
bottled up for five years or thereabouts
broke loose. Factories, distributors and
dealers were pretty well swamped with
orders. Early in the harvest season the
manufacturers of haryesters 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
cinity 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
poor one in that line of business.
These predictions are not going to be
verified. The year 1899 is going to set
a 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 25 per
cent larger than in the supposedly ban
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 again.
It will be 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
unconventional it was bribe to labor
rendered by the rusts-will hardly hold
good in this case.-Sioux City Journal.
All Volunteers Can Come Home.
President Mckinley has administered
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 still
further proof of the Presidents never
varying desire to carry the will of the
people into effect-Des Moines Regis
ter.
Hrvan in His Blindness.
Little wonder is it, that the Jeffer-
sonian Democrats of the East are call
ing for a new party leader with the
courage Of his convictions and with
intelligence to grasp the difficulties of
the present situation. Little wonder is
1t that the disciples of Jefferson and
Jackson repudiate the leadership Of
Rrvan when he poses as a neryeleSS