The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

Under Republican administra-
ton the cotton mill owners of New
England never tired reducing wages.
Under Democratic administration
there are continual announcements
of an increase. Some items pleasant
to know are that Roach's big ship
yards at Chester resumed Monday;
the Paterson, n. j., locomotive works
are doubling their forces of work
men; Merriam colliery. large Read
ing operation at Locust Dale, re
sumed Monday after a long suspen-
sion; and the Northampton furnace
near Shimersville lighted fires on the
same day after an idle period of two
years.
These are most gratifying signs of
the times and full of significance.
Somehow it has been the fashion of
Pennsylvania iron mills and fur
naces to keep closed during the past
ten years. The few running have
done so with reduced forces and low
wages. But under Democratic ad-
ministration this all changes. There
is a strong, solid boom all along the
industrial line. Every day brings
an encouraging sign to view. The
above industrial mention is from
the news telegraphed in Saturdays
Leader. 1t is common thing to
print that sort of item now, where
it was just the other way short
while ago.
President Cleveland's policy has
been endorsed by the business men
and capital Of the land as the best
for the country, and they have ac-
cepted it without exception. That
is the secret of the spirit of improve
ment. All through the past cam
paign the resumption movement
kept going on and on. Everybody
knew that the election would 90 the
right way. Nobody supposes John
Roach resumes merely for effect.
He never had any just cause to make
an assignment. To-day his Chester
yards begin anew with a greatly in
creased force. No, it is solid,
substantial business improvement,
brought about by equally solid and
substantial causes. From every sec
ton comes grand news.
Right at home there is cause for
rejoicing. Ground has been broken
for an axle works to employ in seven
months time one thousand men.
That means, if it means anything,
that there is future for Wilkes
Barre beyond any present concep
ton. Other investments are now
under consideration and we shall
hear from their projectors very soon.
1t is no time to keep capital idle or
hide it away under a bushel. 1t is
time to stand it ON hill and let
the sun get at it,,
A prominent New York broker
said in an interview the other day
that he believed this country had
only made beginning, and the
events of the next five years would
astonish the world. A New York
broker is neither Democrat nor Re
publican when it comes to money
making. He speaks from business,
trade and commercial stand point,
and not political one. His obser-
walton is from the keenness and pro-
gress of things about him. One fact
that caused this broker mentioned
above to say that the future would
unfold series of astonishing events
to the world on the part of this coun-
try was that the South traded in
New York city last year to the ex-
tent of $50,O0O,OO0. That is fact
worth knowing and is in some mea-
sure the cause of the revival of the
iron industry in the Lehigh and
Schuylkill valleys of Pennsylvania
and the restarting of the looms of
New England under Democratic
administration.
The day-dawn of improvement is a
solid one. 1t is worthy of special
Thanksgiving-Union Leader.