The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-13
The Calamity Howlers sim Howl.

Inc Z a4amlCY hOW1eTS sui howl.
The republican stump speakers are
playing the role of calamity howiers to
the best of their ability. Gov. Mckinley,
in the speeches he deli yered in Maine, de-
clared that he saw no Improvement in the
industrial situation, or in business, and
/ predicted there would be- none MIR
/ Reid took the same gloomy view. In his
/ opinion the country could not be pros
I porous except the protection policy Of
the Republican party was readopted. He
thought the Wilson tariff would be pro-
ductive of ruin all over the country.
Warner Miller in a letter TO the New
YORK Tribune day or two ago, admitted
there had been very considerable i'm
pre-. ement in business, but insis ed the
improvement would not be permanent.
The talk of all the republican leaders is
Of the same gloomy character-au ex-
cept MIR. Chauncey NJ Depew, and he is
being scolded by eminent republicans for
speaking his mind freely and frankly.
Mr.. Depew said in an interview recently
that in his opinion within a year or two
the country would be enjoying prosperity
uuequaled in its history. He said The
ginning of a new era of prosperity. The
country has passed through the most
serious industrial and financial distress
in its history.
Confidence is restored-that means
everything to US. The industrial energy
of the 10000, 600 people in the country,
not yet fully developed, is resistless when
credit and stability are assured The
consuming aud purchasing powers of this
homogeneous population make prosperity
for every business, regardless of foreign
demands.
There is no end of idle money which
will now seek active employment. In less
than two years the panic of lS03-94 will
be forgotten. Mines, furnaces, mills and
factories will be in full operation; rail
roads will be conveying profitable traffic,
and the movement of internal commerce
and the free circulation of currency or the
equivalent in business and wages will GER
tainly increase the demand for everything
produced upon the farm or elsewhere"
There are evidences in all parts of the
country that the hard times are passing
away. The Financial Chronicle in its
last issue, called attention to the improve
ment in the earnings of railroads, the i'm
mense movement in print cloths, the ad-
vance in the price of these cloths owing
to the great demand, and to the increas-
ing activity in manufacturing of nearly
all kinds.
A New York merchant, in a letter to
the Herald the other day, said: Most
of the principal lines of business are do
ing better than for long time past. In
the dry goods line many jobbers state
that thus far during the present month
transactions have exceeded those of two
years ago, when the demand was the
largest in the history of the dry goods
trade. Shipping departments are now
taxed to their utmost, and the principal
houses report that night work is neces-
sary to prevent blockade of orders"
There is no room to doubt that there is
a very great change for the better, and
there is no good reason why the improve
menJ should not con inue. The calamity
howlers will soon have to stop asserting
that there has been no change for the
better, because the facts are so strongly
against them that they will only make
themselves ridiculous.