The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-26
CORN EXPORTS EXPAND.
An Increase OF Many Hundred Per Cent
During Prosperity.
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Mckinley administration and there is
reason to believe that. what is being
sent out now is but beginning to what
Will be exported few years hence, if
the present policies of the government
are persisted in. The exports of corn
and corn meal during 1895 fiscal Year,
and the fiscal year ending June goth,
1900, compare as follows:
1895. 1900.
Value .... $15, 299,611 1884, 100
1t is doubtful if any single article Of
export shows a better gain.
Glucose is direct product of corn
Not to mention the domestic consump-
ton, which is surprisingly large, there
is a rapidly developing export business,
which BODIES good for the corn pro-
ducers. How this export business has
developed under the Republican admin
istration of affairs this table strikingly
shows:
Export four years Three years
Cleveland Mckinley
Total value. SIC, 4O5, 800 $1O,O96,S6S
Average per year 2,601,375 1856, 623
What is most encouraging is that the
exports during three years of Republi-
can prosperity are nearly equal to those
of four years OF Democratic adversely
The Base Ball Boys.
There were just a dozen boys in the
gang. The, Oldest of them was not
over fourteen, the youngest was about
ten.
They tumbled over each other in a
heap, rushing into the store of James
NJ. Kane at Fort Wayne, Ind. In
chorus they asked for a baseball. The
stOre-keeper sized them up and got out
a 2o-cent ball. James Kane has lived
in Fort Wayne for quite a number Of
years. He has a store that is known
all around that neighborhod, and does
q good business in notions, fancy and
sporting goods. His experience led him
to believe that lie had sized up the
boys and judged correctly what was
wanted.
But he WAS surprised when the small
lest fellow Of the group piped out: I'VE
want a better ball than that. We want
a good league ball"
Kane got down the $1.5O balls, which
were eagerly handled by the sports,
who took three Spalding balls. Kane
thought they were guying him, but not
a bit Of it. The next thing they want
ed was some bats. And they wanted
the best bats. Then they bought
bases. Then they bought masks. And
SO they went on until they had secured
complete baseball outfit, which cost
them $3.50. Kane was puzzled. But
the little fellows were not. The small
est chap in the crowd coughed up the
money and paid the $3.50 like a man.
The store-keeper Kane staggered
back against the showcase. Never in
all his business career had he seen
day, as he tells the story, when mere
babies, you might say, could at one
time rake up $3.50 for base-balls, or
any other kind of sporting goods"
Kane had been lifelong Democrat,
but he says now L am for Mckinley
first, last and all the time. and for ev-
cry man on the Republican ticket. In
short, am Il Republican. have been
q Democrat for forty years, and all
that time have been in business here.
I found it mighty tough sliding through
the last Cleveland administration, but
l have never had such good business in
all the forty years as under Mckinley.
This little incident that happened a
few days ago, just as we were closing
up, has settled me. When a crowd of
little boys can come in here and spend
as much money as they did for a base
ball outfit there can be nothing what
ever the matter with the condition of
affairs in this country. | like to see
the little chaps happy, and just want
things to keep right on as they are
now. No, sir, | am Republican for
all time. | want no Bryan in mine"
Business o.i Business Principles.
1.-THE people are doing business on
business principles, and should be let
alone-encouraged rather than hinder
ed in their efforts to increase the trade
of the country and find new and profit
able markets for their products. Will
lam Mckinley.
For Liberty and Law.
1--WE are not there to establish an i'm
perial government; but we are there to
establish government of liberty under
law, protection to life and property, and
opportunity to all who dwell there
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