Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1897 — The Wheat Supply [ARTICLE]

The Wheat Supply

The Deficiency for This Year is Estimated at 14,000,000 Quarters. London, Hept. 6.—The Mark L ane Express, reviewing the crop situation, says to day: “The weather has been adverse to the completion of the harvest, and the quantjty of grain still out is considerable. The French wheat crop is estimated at 31,000,000 quarters by the chief writers of the Paris press. Correspondents of English business firn s state that the crop will amount to from 38,000,000 to 36,000,000 quarters. The AustriaHungary crop is sta'ed to be .17,000,000’quarters. If this is true it adds greailv to the gravity of the si nation. The American crop is reckoned by careful judges to be 68,500,000 quarters, or 11,000,000 improvement, to offset a decline of 9,000,000 quarters in Bus* sia and 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 quaiters In France. “All the figures point, therefore, to a deficiency in the world’s sup* ply of 14,000,000 quarters. Bho’d the demand be actually us large as this, the stores of old wheat will be used up and a crisis of great seriousness will only be prevented by generally good prospects for the spring of 1898. We are not, however, entitled to argue that such prospects will be more than the average.” A “quarter” of wheat, the announcement referred to in the above dispatch, is about eight bushels, which would make the wheat deficit ot the world tnis year, according to the figures of the Mark Lane Express, which is regarded as an authority on such els.

The tax-gatherers of Chicago are after George M. Pullman. The assets of the company as sho t vn by the annual report for the year 1896 were $63,000,000. What wo’d one suppose that the assessed valuation of these assets for taxation should he? Not less than $50,000,000, of couse. But Pullman returned the property for taxation at 81,500,000. It cost the city of Chicago more thans2oo,ooo to protect his property during the riots in 1894. Kind words cost nothing, b*it but their expression at the right time sends an amount of sunshine into the life of those at whom they are aimed. When you are|on the street make frequent use of them when meeting friends, especially do so when you come in contact with the young. The Republican party has went and perfected the most|scientific tariff yet seen in this country.— Mark Hanna to the people of Ohio, Thetariff be s infernal scientific that us does not wonder, but perhaps we guess the people of Ohio will be onto all its curves before November.--'National Democrat.

The Democratic papers tell us that I was assistant president m Washington, which is an unsmitigated falsehood, and ye know it, all of ye.—Hanna’s Toledo speech.— He forgot to add: ‘I was the whul thing.’ ” —Nat’onal Democrat. The Hannaitos seem to forget that it is the average prices of wheat and silver thatjthat bimetal lists pointed to in the late campaign.

Doctor Moore, the careful spei cialist, Rensselaer. Indiana. M hen the Republican party see anything to be done she at once pioceeds to do it.—Mark Hanna. 5 The nat onal banks are prepariDg to inflate the currency with worthless unredeemable paper of theii own brand. L> Judge Healy’s is the place for shoes—Gente', Ladies’ and Child* ten’s. Don’t forget it. The Republican party evidently see that it ought to dodge the silver issue in Ohio and lowa, and she be having n h 1 of a time trying to do it.— Ex. The short wheat crops abroad have result 3d in higher prices for the American product. Legislas tion against silver abroad and at home had a tendency to reduce the price of this American product. This is all that there is to it.

A dollar a dav is enough for any man to work for a day.—Mark Hanna to Ship Carpenters’ Union, 1877. On election day in Ohio next November, thousands of workingmt u will put in a full d y at tho polls for the pure love of the thing. The Republican party, she won’t take no backward step at this inportant point in their progress.— Mark Hanna’s Toledo speech. Sun ply I ecause she neon the run and know that the Democrats be close on her trail.

If the Republican party is in the habit of “seeing something to be dono and then doing it,” it ough. to see that Mark Hanna is sadly iu need of a grammar. Engineer Bostwick will get you up plans and specifications for building. Charges reasonable.— Office up-stairs, in Forsythe building.