Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-08-18
 SOME SURE SIGNS
Testimony Which Shows the T.
 Opinion Regarding Fraa CT, eha

'iip 'o 'iie souCh ana west, in which k paid particular attention to tba osu ne outlook as we'll as the general hrs,S ,iop situation. MT. Fish is very consau ,aneSs tive in his views as well as carot'.I va his observations. Therefore. wbss n has to say carries great deal ne s weight. The fact that he is nres;a ia ol of a big trunk line, reaching froas fs1aUns ", cago to the Dakotas on the one Lsl oii,' and to the gulf on the other. yo,,ls Isnu' V sufficient in itself to give hie so mo.9 1e considerable weight; but bis addaS 0,VIU US sition of bank director counted mi" po' his interest in a number of loaa, a'n financial institutions in Wall eng give his interview the rank of fret ;.' portanee. 'Di'
 Mir. Fish's concluding paragraph r. garding state bank notes is particn,as ly significant at this time, and is soras what surprising in view of the genars, 'o trend of opinion in New York againa. .. the repeal of the state bank issues
 aThe signs of the subsistence of tb. silver craze as political factor sa0 0 multiplying" said President Fish During a recent trip through tba south, l talked with many prominent democrats in congress and out of f and happened to be in Louisville at +ba time of the recent democratic state convention. So far as am abla to judge, the 16 to 1 movement in tbo south is merely political makesbift for the purpose of suppressine tb. tariff issue. The people will take mn but one political topic at time and the southern leaders seem to bavs brought forward the unlimited coinaes of silver in order to avoid diseussino the tariff, I doubt if many of them ara sincere in their advocacy of free silver and have reason to believe that tbev have thrown this tub to the popular and populistie whale for its amusa. ment.
 .tThe general business outlook con. tinues to improve, and we shall m. doubtedly hear less and less about free silver and other heresies. There has at all times been a cheap money party having its nucleus in the dissatisfied elements of society. Hard times in- crease and good times decrease the number of this faction. As prosperity becomes better assured, the agitation for fiat money will undoubtedly sub. side as it has in the past, and those who are ehronically 'agin the govern. mcnti will ere long find emplogmentin gainful occupations, and disappear as factors in the political world
 Another very large corn crop is as- sured in the lower Mississippi valley, and the indications for corn all oveg the country are most cheering We are now to season where it is scarcely possible that general disaster can overtake that crop, even in the northern part of the corn belt, where there is always danger from frost, al- though we will undou ubtedly hear Of losses from various causes in different parts of the country. The winter wheat crop was rather less than half the usual average, and the prospects are not fattering for large yield Of wheat, even including the much better outlook for spring wheat Of oats and other small grain, and fruits of all kinds, there is an abundance.
 "Cotton in.Mississippi and Tennessee, although backward owing to excessive rains, bids fair to be good crop, al.I though not up to the phenomenal figure of last year.
 "Too much credit caanot be given to President Cleveland for having atI so early a day, opened campaign of education in regard to silver, or to theI chamber of commerce for it's able, un.I selfish and sustained efforts ill theI same direction. All that seems now necessary is to continue this work oil enlightenment, with the view oil bringing to the knowledge of ourI southern friends the fundamental principles underlying sound currency and the realization of their own ln-l terests. As each southern state, except Florida. annually grows agricultural products of greater value than was the entire product of silver ln theI United States during 1894, and as theI larger part of these products eonslsssI of cotton, of which two-thirds IS ez'1 ported and commands gold ill every port in Europe, l cannot believe tha'I there is, or will continue to be- any strong feeling in favor of the unllml'sa| coinage of silver in the south.
 @Our southern friends have, howeVer'I a grievance in that their local rates iol money are so high in proportion s0l those prevailing in New York anu other money centers, and it may g'I that this could be corrected by repeai, ing the tax on circulation oi sOas' banks. The experience of New forh' and other states, before the wa, demonstrates that notes ofstate panAs can, under proper safeguards be kepsI s in circulation locally at par, wl'nou' loss to anyone. For one, fall 'o sss why this should not be again i.s psa nftted now that the main object oi 'n0 war measure' has been accomphsnsu, If, as many believe, it will prins .ll | closer parity of rates of interest IL ao. co, parts of our common country, tnls plS hibitive tax should be repealed loi VI with.
 Ut is the plea of the free lney sl,ssl