The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-29
Revival of Business.

Notwithstanding Republican predictions to
the contrary, there has been steady i'm
provement in the business interests of the
country since the Inauguration of q Demo
cratic Administration The four years of
depression is being succeeded by confidence
and business activity. The improvement is
quite noticeable now, but general revival is
predicted that viii go on until prosperity will
be visible everywhere. On the subject of
'.The General Trade the New York World
of Monday remarks:
The merchants of this city, and in fact busi-
ness men throughout the country, are to be
congratulated upon the substantial improve
ment in general trade which has grown more
and more apparent with the approach OF the
fall season. Only a short time ago this i'm
provement was confined to one or two branch
es. but the change for the better now includes
most of the leading industries of the country.
Cotton and woolen goods, iron, groceries,
etc. are all in better demand and are bring
inc better prices than for long time past.
The American people seem to have at last
thrown off the iethargy which has been the
main characteristic OF the commercial world
since the reaction set in after the "boom" OF
are preparing with their proyerbial energy to
build Mp American commerce and manufac-
lures One has no need to go far to discover
the underlying causes for the improvement.
They NAV be found in the curtailment OF pro-
duction which has relieved overstocked mark
cts. in the natural increase of demand follow
ing an increase of population and IN the
splendid prospects for the crops. With the
single exception of wheat there IS reason to
look for abundant harvests. Cotton and corn
especially are each important factors in the
situation and the indications for phenomenal
yield of both are SO fattering that the produc-
ing classes are feeling more encouraged than
for several years. This is particularly the
case in the South, where the change IS so
pronounced that close observers predict re-
yival of trade and manufactures which Will
exceed anything witnessed in that section
since the close Of the war.
On Tuesday the Baltimore american, speak
ing of the business grumblers, said;
Yet, though it is not to be expected that
our merchants will admit that things are look
ing better it is noticeable even to outsiders
that better tone prevails. In New York
the fall trade is reported to be opening briskly.
In Pittsburg the iron trade, long stagnant, is
alive again and brisk. There are other I'M
mistakable signs of improvement. Along the
sidewalks of our streets where wholesale
houses cluster, the piles of boxes going and
coming obstruct the sidewalk. A large cunt
of merchandise is changing hands, and profits
will accrue to somebody. We believe that
better times are coming-that they are right
at the door.
And all this while Cleveland sits in the
White House, and while Democratic Ad-
ministration controls the affairs Of this great
commonwealth; Democratic Administration,
which it was predicted by Republican presses
and speakers, would blight the prosperity of
the country, stagnate all branches of trade
and drive the ploughshare of ruin through all
the business enterprises of the land. What
now do we see? These Republican presagers
of evil acknowledging their party misrepre-
sensations during the late Presidential cam
paign. Although Cleveland is President,
things go on in the natural world pretty much
as they did before his election. The rivers
still flow to the sea; the sun shines as brightlyi
the grass is just as green; the sky as blue; and
the stars shine just as brightly in the diadem
of night, while in the political world all must
admit that there has been a vast Improvement
upon the Republican regime. Mr.. Cleveland
has piled assiduously his measures of reform,
and the country is reaping the benefit He
has Topped off, one by one, the excrescences
of the Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur
administrations. He has dismissed, by hun
dreds, the supernnmeraries which had been
established in every department Of the gov
eminent, and has saved thereby thousands, if
not millions, to the public treasury annually.
Why shouldn't better times be fright at the
Threshold" as the american AYERS? And
yet the good work has only just begun. Mr.
Cleveland will consummate, in the progress
of his administration, such extensive reforms
and retrenchments in the public expenditure,
and in the practical workings of the govern
ment, as shall extort from all men, even the
enemies of the Democratic party, the ac-
acknowledgement that his administration has
been blessing to the entire country. The
American is right in saying-'We believe
that better times are coming-that they are
right at the threshold"