Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1895-01-04
THE GENERAL BUSINESS LNDTCA-
TIDEC


THE GENERAL BUSINESS INDICA.
TONS.
The general business prosperity Of the
country for the past few years has expert
enced a distress to an extent never before
witnessed in its annals. Every material
enterprise has suffered, every hearthstone
has felt its blighting and whitening effect,
but the present indications encourage the
belief that We have gone through the worst
Confidence seems ~ be gaining foot hold
and business men begih to ieel that they are
standing upon a substantial basis Whilst
produce Of every kind continues low, still
the farmers, realizing the great reduction in
the common necessaries Of life under the
modification Of the tariff, are looking for,
ward TO better times-Which means more
money for that which they may have to
sell-with this labor will be stimulated, for
il will be regulated according TO the prices
received for their marketable merchandise.
Gided dishonesty is no longer at pre-
MUM, and the thousands Of stock gamblers,
shoddy contractors and spectators can not
retard the operations Of trade, control the
markets or pronounce DEGREES as to the
value of property.
ExraVagance in dress, which has been so
conspicuous Of late year,, has had to give
way under the pressure Of hard times. PEG
pie begin to dress more sensibly and for
much less money. The mania for specula
ton seems to have had lis day and "bg
bonanzas" have gone
"Gimmering through the dreams Of things
that were"
Real estate in our Metropolitan cities and
through rural sections has let fly "lancy
prices" and is fast sinking to its true value
Capitalists are fleeing from the fury of the
storm, and must and will seek safe and
permanent Investment in the rural portions
Of the country. AS a consequence, our
manufactures will quietly open up, our
streams will set in motion countless num-
bers Of nov silent sPndles, and with this
development in trade, the vast surplus Of
dormant labor, which is now tramping the
public roads or which crowd our cities and
seaboard towns, will find remunerative and
constant employment.
Quite number Of the leading, influential
and reliable journals in abiding 10 our
future prospects speak in the most hopeful
terms. The crops, both of cereals and cot
ton and other staples, have been so greatly
in excess of former years as largely to re.
duce the expense of living, and though the
liqnidatiens during the year have been
heavy and attended with individual dis
iress, the mercantile interests which survive
are on more solid basis, and with conf
deace in the future and ndomitable perse
verance. characteristic Of our people, we may
expect soon to realize the fruitioH of our
fondest hopes.
With this favorable and encouraging view
of our affairs as given by those who have
the opportunity and have made our fnan
cial, mercantile and industrial interests a
study we may congratulate ourselves that
better times are coming, the clouds are drift
ing away, and as the busy hum Of industry
resounds throughout, the length and breadth
of the land cheerful faces will greet us and
the sunshine of prosperity will gladden. our
hearts-a blessing devoutly to he wished
for