Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-10-05
CORN EXPORTS P A
An Increase of Many Hundred rc,. Gem
During Prosperity.

An increase OF Many Hundred PcI. Cent
During Prosperity.
Corn is having q splendid demand in
many European markets. Its eXport:l-
ton has been especially fostered by the
Mckinley administration and there is
reason to believe that What is being
sent out now is but a beginning TO what
will be exported a few years hence, if
the present policies of the government
are persisted in. The exports of corn
and corn meal during 1885 fiscal ycar)
and the fiscal year ending June both,
1900, compare as follows:
1895. 1900,
Value ........ .290,611 $s1.35l, 100
1t is doubtful if any single article of
export shows Il better gain.
Glucose is Il direct product of corn.
Not to mention the domestic cousump-
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. 80. $40, i05, 900 $10.O96, S6S
Average per year 2,G01.375 3,3G5.G23
What is most encouraging is that the
exports during three years of Republic
can prosperity are nearly equal to those
of four years of Democratic adversely.
The Base Bali Boys.
There We're just IL dozen boys in the
gang. The Oldest of them was not
over fourteen, the youngest was about
ten.
They tuinbicd ovcr each other in Il
heap. rushing into the store of james
NJ. Kane at Fort Wayne, Ind. In
chorus they asked for Il baseball. The
store-keepcr sized them up and got out
Il 2J-cent ball. James Kane has lived
i'll Fort Wayne for quite IL number of
Years. lie has Il store that is known
all around that neighborllod, and does
q good business in notions, fancy and
sporting goods. His experience led him
to believe that he had sized up the
boys and Judged correctly what was
wanted.
But he vas surprised when the enlal-
lest fellow OF the group piped out: I'VE
want Il better bail than tllt. We van
Il good league ball.
Kane got down the $1.50 balls, which
were eagerly handled by the sports,
who took three Spalding balls. . Kane
thought they were guying him, but not
Il bit OF it. The next thing they want
ed was sonic bats. And they wanted
the best bats. Then they bought
bases. Then they bought masks. And
so they went Oh until they had secured
Il complete baseball outfit, which cost
them $3.50. Kane was puzzled. But
the little fellows We're not. The small
e., chap i'll the crowd coughed up the
nloney and paid the $500 like Il man.
The store-Aeeper Kane staggered
back against the showcase. Never i'll
all his business career had he seen q
day, as lie tells the story, "whcn mere
babies. you might say, could at one
time rake up $2S.5U for base-balls, or
any other kind of sporting goods"
Kane had been Il lifelong Democrat,
but he says now II nm for Mckinley
first, last and all the time, and for ev-
cry man OH the Republican ticket. In
short, l am a Republican. have been
a Democrat for forty years, and all
that time have been in business here.
l found it mighty tough sliding through
the last Cleveland administration, but
1 have never had such good business in
all f1,n fntfy N,aO1s nc St,,ln,. NTo1C;rl0,,
"This little incident that happened a
few days ago, just as we We're closing
up, has settled me When O 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. l like to see
the little chaps happy, and 1 just want
things to keep right on as they are
now. No, sir, l nm n Republican for
all time. 1 want no Bryan in nine"
business Oh 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.
I'VE are not there to establish an inn
perial government; but We are there to
establish a government of liberty under
law, protection to life and property, and
opportunity to all who dwell there
William Mckinley.