The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-12-12
TOKENS OF national PROSPERITY.

TOKENS OF NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
For the year ending Oct. 3lst, the
balance of trade in favor of the Unit
ed States was $269,oooO Ooo These
figures show how strong and what a
wonderful factor in the commercial
world our country has become. But
a few years since, when we were
burdened with debts, and the inter-
est in the public debt caused us to
put forth every endeavor to meet its
prompt payment, and when the
country was stricken with business
paralysis, the balance of trade was
annually sl5o,ooo,ooo against US.
But our people have learned wisdom
by experience and have, for several
years last passed, been practicing
economy with very desirable results.
Costly equipages and large establish
merits have given way to the more
simple and less expensive modes OF
living. Resumption has been great
boon to the country in restoring
credit abroad and inspiring conf
dence at home. While the idle mills
and factories have again resumed
business, after long and distressing
silence, furnishing employment to
thousands of our laboring popula-
tion, the lively, strong and active
pulse of reviving trade is felt through
every avenue of business. Never
before have business men felt such
confidence in the future as at present.
Railroads are being projected and
forced forward to completion with
an energy heretofore unknown, and
are opening to settlement large por-
tions of the public domain that has
lain idle for want of sufficient means
of transporting their products to the
seaboard. We have been blessed
with large crops, of every descrip.
tion, andsthey have realized the pro-
duceg good prices, while the Repub-
lican party has been given a new
lease of power by increased majori-
ties. 1t would seem that Providence
is on on our, side, not only blessing
us with enormous crops and con-
q quent business revival, but by
allowing the Democratic party to
exist to commit blunders that enure
to the prosperity OF the Republican
cause. The elections this fall have
retired such Bourbons as Thurman of
Ohio, Herman of N. Y. Eaton of
Connecticut, and all U. S. Senators
whose terms expire March 4, 1880.
In their places will be elected sound
Republicans, who believe in the
Sovereignty of, the Nation and are
attached to its principles and honor,
and who will not, by any word or
act of theirs, aid the Rebel Briga-
diers in robbing the National Treas
ury to pay for mules or cattle or
slaves captured or destroyed during
the late war.
Gold, by the ship load, is coming
to our shores to pay for our cereals
and manufactured fabrics. The ma
tions of the earth believe in us. Be.
lieve that we are capable and willing
to pay our just obligations. and at
the same time take care of all our
people, besides contributing largely
to The distressed of other lands.
Our credit is almost unbounded, and
will remain SO just so long as We
live soberly, and practice the econo-
my taught us in the severe school of
the past. No nation is more respect
ed than ours. None that exerts the
enlightening influences in the world.
To whom do we owe all this ? To the
Great Ruler of Nations, through the
instrumentality of the Republican
party. A tidal wave of prosperity,
unequaled before in our history, has
enveloped the entire country. And
the nation is vigorous, active, aggres-
sive and is just entering upon an
era of usefulness, enlightenment and
grandeur before unknown.