Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-03
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
As a General Thing, Last Years
Profits We're Small.

As a General Thing, Last Years
Profits We're Small.
Merchants Busy Taking Stoch aud Cast
ing Up Their Accounts---A Hopeful
View Of the Failure.
The regular routine Of the day Among
oui business men IS always slightly Drok
en At The end at the gear and
this SEASON the takiEy 0i stock
and the counting Of the TWO columns. one
OF profits and the other Of expenses, - he
lug performed with more than ordinary
interest. When the little example IN SUB
traction ia solved, whether the nswsT DC
minus or plus, the one concerned will set
himself TO work to
DEVISE NsN IAN
aud 10 get an original idea rs 10 huw to
conduct The campaign during the JomIn'
year, that in the end Il may BE- more PR"
ttahla than it Was las.
The laws Of supply and demand H.r last
as memorable to-day a they We're 8 year
ago or in the days Of Adam Smith.
Whether this year counts show Il profit
dependa largely upon the ability OF thr
merchant or manufacturer to interpret
these laws.
Last year was ia many respects - pr
culiar one. IL is generally conceded thar
many Of the branches Of industry we're
no, gs remunerative as on former Years.
The result or etiec; is seen in the written
page Of the ledger.
THE CAUSE
is Il matter OF much dispute and con ec,asc.
One man who has the advantage OF years
Of experience, says the present depression
is due solely to an oTerproducuOn. tiiF
I no lass eX p]erienced Eelgh5o: contends that
the trouble Is the result Of u multiplicity
of causes. lie maintains that the partial
s~,agnation Of business is due more to local
causes than 10 general. He looks upon the
strikers. without assuming to say Which
party is in the fault, as being responslolc
for the major portion Of the stagnGuon OF
the psst twelve months. He also, t; "ag
OF parenthesis, suggests that many o. oor
people have heretofore been
LIVING BEYOND THEIR MEANS,
aud pay day has finally come aud found
them with a purse too light to meet the
demands olthe occasion.
A third man, who has llstcn with III
terest to the interchange Of IDEAS On the
situation, suggests that there is truth II
the statements Of both the gentlemen, bus
Gtirms that the state OF trade is due both to
general lave and local misfortune. lie
calls the last an oft year aud claims tLey
ue periodical. His theory allows him 10
be hopeful OIL better times, commencing
almost Immediately and continuing tor u
number OF yeArs.
1t is generally conceded that the iron
and nail manufactures, Tor which Wheeling
is noted, have been less TeuiuDeratiye dur
ing the past year, considering the amount
of capital invested, than Rny other bUsluess
This state OF affairs is due 10 well known
causes. The trouble in this, the main
branch Of our industries, has been felt
more or less by every other business. Ihia
single fact presents
MOST r~ORNIDARL.E AEGrM,Ng
in favor Of diversified industries. Let
Statesmen discuss the necessity OF a diver
siied national Industry at length and CONF
to whatever conclusion they choose, bat
there can be but little question as TO the
needs OF our " city. The last year fur
n;shes a Lesson upon this topic which it
woali be well fer our pGCP!e 70 remember
and profit by.
In conyeratiou Yesterday with a en
tlemsu who is connected with one OF he
foundries of the city, he said there had
oecn 4 great falling off in his business
during the past year. Especially was tLi5
true in the local trade. Rna,uess in other
sections was not SC dull although thC7.
was q marked decrease everywhere.
( talking With "A gentleman engGgsj in
the mercantile business. the reporter found
it was practically the same in that line r.
in the preceding. Those houses tia IL.
pend upon e local trade haze
NOR, ROOM OR rONrIAtS,
than the others. 4 gentleman CONTESTED
With one OF the tobacco manufactures
/ said the falling Of in that business had
not been as great az might naturally be
supposed. He affirmed that the demand
for their product was REGULAR and not sp6-
iect to many oithe hq"uRting influences
that disturb other classes Of business.
Indeed, said he 1T : 80 STEADY
We would moi kno" 'com ou sale,
that holitars had zone and go6e re.
/ Gently Oassyoai 'houyht bis slatgmrE
would sse.u very plausible. 70 much 50 in
deed that i, is deserving Of credence.
The reporter aceijeIrIy dropped into IL,
otice OF one c. the planning mills Of the
cify yesterday bud found one o. the pro
prietors trying 70 90; ! columu Of t.rares
together. he remarked lie business OF
last year Was
N0T ETTiRLIl sNr.>. Arutg4.
bu, be entertained no iesrs concerning the
bounce in ord r. during the present
year Am satisfied lie SAID. our 5usi-
ness. rs we'll al mes the industries of the
town. will shoW ap ast:e' me- holidays
thsn during the last
Of course each business - largely lEal.
enced b7 circumstances Ghi conditions p
culiar 10 itse!i. n0f il is 10 be regretted
that, as d rule, all OF them have suffered 10
some extent during the last year, In the
eyes OF many the omens for the future pre-.
dict better times. Mo- il be 20.
Dancing Academy
A, Gsrmsnia Hall corner Iourtrezth and
Market streets. Prot, John Mullen will
commence his second term on Tuesday,
January Z, lSSG. Afternoons tor ladies',
Misses and Masters from 3 to ) o'clock
eyeninesfo for Gentlemen aud Ladies from :
to 10 0 clockp N. Win continue Tuesdays
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