The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-11-22
NOW FOR BUSINES SIS.
That is the Song of the Newspapers,
Republican as Well as Others.
Wilmington Messenger

Scores OF newspapers in the differ
ent sections are already saying Now
for business" 1t is well. The bust
ness is slack. The elections have
retarded it, for they gave an opportu-
nifty to calamity howlers to howl and
discharge operatives, to cut wages, and
swear "the tariff did it," and to others
to refuse to start up their plants. 1t
gave an occasion to such false and
blatant blowers as Mckinley and
Harrison, and to the other prophets OF
evil and manipulators of facts and
figures to deceive and bamboozle to
make capital for the outs, and thus
retard business and contradict all
favorable statements. Now that the
elections are over with and their terri
BILE notwithstanding to power in the
States and in the Congress the party
that ruined the country and produced
the very condition that defeated the
Democrats, the Republican papers in
New England, in the Middle States,
and in the West, are joining with the
Democrats in the coockoo song
g Let's go to business at once" 1t is
high time if there is to be any bust
ness-any prosperity.
1t is pitiful to read now, after their
lying few days ago, what they say of
a chance to regain prosperity. A few
days ago according to them it was all
desperate and dark, for the Demo
Gratis by reducing the Monster Tax for
Monopoly had ruined everything.
They knew they were writing to
deceive. They knew the Democratic
tariff retained many and important
features of protection and that as an
average tariff tax it was still high
nearly 40 per cent. Yet to befool
their workingmen again as they had
often done before they pretended that
the Democratic tariff had ruined the
country, made it impossible to make
money and times must continue for
years to be dull, very dull and dismal.
But behold the change that "has
come DER the spirit of their dreams"
See how quickly they face about.
With the same Democratic tariff, with
no possible chance of having it
changed in year or two years, they
now tell the country that it must go to
business and make money as of yore.
| Read this taken from Senator Haw-
ley's paper, the Hartford Conn
| C0urant:
Confidence is the word now-confi-
dence, energy, enterprise! The bad,
dull times are over. Prosperity is
coming back by leaps and bounds :;
throw the doors wide open for it. Soon
the factory chimneys will be smoking,
trade humming, money briskly circu-
lating, and the country beginning to
feel like itself again.
Then Representative Dingley, of
Lewiston, Maine, has an organ-the
Journal It,, too, was one of the
calamity shriekers. 1t now cheerily
says, "adjusting itself to the new
order of things the Journal goes on
to say, business will improve" We
feel quite sure that this cheerful pre-
diction will be fulfilled. Oh! the
liars, the liars! Hawley's paper says
"prosperty is coming back" and it is
not going to wait either for the next
Republican Congress and more Nc
kinley physic. That cantankerous
Republican tooter, the Baltimore
american, sings little song of hope
and cheers its readers as it tells them,
Meanwhile, there are good reasons
for hoping that there will be gradual
and genuine revival of trade"
Ofcourse, there will be improvement
not fast, but slow and sure. This
country is too great to stand still.
Now that the election turmoil and
contention is over. everybody can
think of work and " getting there" In
the South it must be bacon and greens
and hog and hominy and a plenty of
it. Trade will continue short for some
time no doubt. Money and credit
are lacking. But the uncertainty is
partly removed-at least for a year to
come-and business must be pressed.