Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — CORN EXPORTS EXPAND. [ARTICLE]

CORN EXPORTS EXPAND.

An Increase of Many Hundred Per Cent During Prosperity. Corn is having a splendid demand in many European markets. Its exportation 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 1895 (fiscal year) and the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1900, compare as follows: 1895. 1900. Value ....... .$15,299,611 $87,354,799 It is doubtful if any single article of export shows a better gain. Glucose is a direct product of corn. Not to mention the domestic consumption, -which is surprisingly large, there is a rapidly developing export business, which bodes good for the corn producers. How this export business has developed under the Republican administration of affairs this table strikingly shows: Export four years Three years Cleveland. McKinley. Total value $10,405,500 $10,096,868 Average per yeai- 2,601,375 3,365,623 What is most encouraging is that the exports during three years of Republican prosperity are nearly equal to those of four years of Democratic adversity. 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 M. Kane at Fort Wayne, Ind. In chorus they asked for a base-ball. The store-keeper sized them up and got out a 25-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 a 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 was surprised when the smallest fellow of the group piped out: “We want a better ball than that. We want a 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 a bit of it. The next thing they wanted 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 a complete base-ball outfit, which cost them $28.50. Kane was puzzled. But the little fellows were not. The smallest chap in the crowd coughed up the money, and paid the $28.50 like a man. The store-keeper Kane staggered back against the showcase. Never in all his business career had he seen a day, as he tells the story, “when mere babies, you might say, could at one time rake up $28.50 for base-balls, or any other kind of sporting goods.” Kane had been a life-long Democrat, but he says now “I am for McKinley first, last and all the time, and for every man on the Republican ticket. In short, lam a Republican. I have been a 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 I have never bad 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 baseball outfit there can be nothing whatever the matter with the condition of affairs in this country: I like to see the little chaps happy, and I just want thlpgs to keep right on as they are now. No, sir, I am a Republican for all time. I want no Bryan in mine.” Business on Business Principles. “The people are doing business on business principles, and should be let alone— encouraged rather than hindered in their efforts to increase the trade of the country and find new and profitable markets for their products.”—William McKinley. For Liberty and Law. “We are not there to establish an imperial 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.