St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-11
Job bers at Least Have Moth
ing to Complain OF at
Present.
Bad Weather Had It's Effect
on Local Traffic Every ~
where.
The Cashier Of Adams Ex-
press Company Under
the Clouds.
A Decree Clearing Up the
Records of the Thompsoni
Estate. d

The business situation is somewhat
peculiar. 1t must be confessed that the
activity, especially in retail circles, is
less brisk than it was a year ago. The
reason for this is palpable. The
weather has been anything but pro-
pitious as whole. Rain has succeeded
rain until the number of days Oil which
there has been precipitation mounts up
into the remarkable. The granger as
we'll as the artisan has been Interrupted
in mis- vocation. He has lost valuable
time, and the farmers summer and
autumn is scarcely less important than
the spring time when he sows for the
harvest IN the later months. The
weather has initiated against him. ana
he is inclined TO be timd about making
his usual purchases, and the same rule of
reasoning holds true with other classes
of bread winners. Still, there is con-
ISOLATION The Northwest-M Minnesota.
the Dakotas and Montana, in particular,
has suffered less than almost any other
section from the unusual rainfall. These
states are all tributary to the trade and
commerce of the Twin Cities, ahd hence
it is that in comparative amounts. there
10 a pittisOtlc III III Tue
two cities. This is true, although the
aggregate volume of trade is a deal less
than had been anticipated. 1t is posi-
ply true that the unprecedented harvest
of year ago had superinduced an OPP
timistc view. 1t was, indeed, last fall
that everybody INDUCED in pur-
chaseS of the Injuries and the comforts
of domestic life that they had felt i'm
PEELED to deny themselves for good
many past previous years. This year
the conditions have mitigated the ag-
gregate. and yet st. Paul jobbers.WhOle-
Salers and retailers, find a prosperous
business.
The proposed Manitoban reciprocity
treaty, together with the seeming prob
ability that the issue will prevail. and
that imports and exports will alike be
stripped of the heavy imposts that have
been imposed by the ubiquitous poll
ticianS-officialS who are struggling to
maintain domination through the SyS-
TEN OF taxing the consumers to 'spro-
tect'' tire industries, as their innate
modesty leads them to explain 1t, but
rather to raise funds for political pur-
poses-the proposed Canadian reciproc-
ity, let it be repeated, has greatly stimu-
lated trade in the Twin Cities.
Harry s. Ash, joDber in stocks, etc,
oldtcS IldI HIS UuSiiicSS lids luCItdSSO
perceptibly since there is a probability
OF release from the imposition. Orders
are coming in, but the reduced
prices, incident to the expected new re-
lations. have induced the renewal of act
ivities; and the proposition that may
lead to the Twin Cities supplying the
wide DominiOnfterritory with merchan-
disc without a tariff. together with a
like prospect that the vast products Of
the Canadas coming into this country
duty tree, presents aglowing picture of,
commercial prosperity. -...,qas1
( The Powers Dry Goods company has
found it necessary to extend its tacilisi
/ ties. 1t finds trade especially PROM
/ Using, and, while it has allarge number
/ of Canadian patrons, it feels that a re-
lief from the high tariff imposed will
multiply the business. The same may
be said of Finch, Van Slyke q Co., the
Kelly Mercantile company, Griggs,
Cooper d Co.. the C. w. Hackett Co.,
and others, although not all are willing
to confess that thigh protective tariff is
not good thing. Reciprocity finds a
sympathetic chord in many a responsive
heart in which a low tariff proposition
is repulSed with unequivOcal indigna-
ton. But the fact remains that all the
larger houses of the Twin Cities are
laboring TO secure an abolition of9the
present Mckinley imposts between Can
ada and the United States, with view
to al Increased prosperity.
Several Sore Heads.
The "Plymouth's" Hat Department
will cure 'em.