The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-20
IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.

All over the country the marked i'm
proVement in trade that began just af-
ter the passage of the new tariff bill
continues. This is gratifying in every
respect and will be welcomed bv all
Inc people at large do not care so
much by what means nor by whom
good times are brought about as that
they come. The fact cannot be over
looked that the return of prosperity
was coincident with the enactment of a
tariff bill that relieves the people from
taxes that weighed heavily upon them.
and makes their money go further
tran it did. To do this is in :. measure
to make two blades of era IS grow
where one grew before This is the wav
to make times good, and they in turn
make good feeling and crea:e c,nti-
dence among the people.
The Mail AMI Express. a Republican,
paper of the most pronounce! type, in
an article entitled Trade and
Finance says:
The volume of trade throughout the
country has kept up remarkably we'll
during the week and the grand aggre-
gate is about up to expectations. It is
true that here and there evidences have
cropped out of the delayed demand
having been satisfied to considera Bile
extent, but while business has Stacked
off at some points it has increased at
others, and. taken altogether. it can be
said that the recent Improvement con-
tinues to be sustained on the average
A very cheerful feeling is reported
from many of the leading southern
cities, where the outlook is bright, and
colder weather at the West has given
an impetus co the consumption of fall
goods.
Business in dry goods with the New
York jobbers was fairly active during
the early days of the week, but tapered
off near the close, when the attendance
of southern ard southwestern mer-
chants thinned out and the market
was left largely to buyers from the
West and nearby points. There has
been further hardening IN the QUOTA
tons for cotton goods, as stocks have
been again reduced, and the breach
between mill owners and operatives
seems wider than ever A number of
wooden mills are still busily. engaged on
old orders, but the demand for woolens
and worsteds for immediate delivery is
less active, and in some cases prices
have been shaded.
Party papers are very fast ceasing to
belittle the signs everywhere manifest
that prosperity is returning. There is
no boom in business but there is a
strong and healthy Improvement, an
improvement begot of confidence and
the conviction that the business Gepres-
sion has passed its lowest point. Wny
should any well wisher of the people
try to retard this Improvement for the
sake of making political capital? The
people realize that calamity bowling
An do some harm just from the mere
noise and hubbub raised but they are
sick and tired of it and are frowning
down those who want to indulge in it.
If this were not so is it at all likely
that such a paper as the Mail and Ex-
press would publish such articles as
the one we quote from? That paper.
like others of the same political per-
suasion, realizes that the tide Of pros
perity has set in and that the surest
way to incur popular disfavor is to run
counter to public opinion
For some time to come at least the
tariff question is settled. Let the new
act have a chance to prove whether it
is what the people want, and if after
fair trial it proves to be not what is
desired let another supplant it. In the
meantime the part of prudence and
wisdom. is for all to take advantage of
the present improved state of trade,
and they viii very soon discover that
there is truth in the saying Like be-
gets like