Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-08
JnrcnsonnhIe Impatience.

From the Boston Herald.
The disappointment expressed at the nom
arrival of a business boom of sufficiently
large dimensions has been aptly compared
to the innocence of a little child, who,
planting a seed in the morning, would dig
ii up at night to see why 1t had not sprout-
ed. The fact that the election did not oc-
cur till the fall trade was practically over
is one which seems to be too obvious to
overlook. But the existing situation is
viewed in some quarters as if such a fact
had no bearing on it, and results are eN-
peCted from the liberation of the product
i've energies of the country which can only
be a question of time. \ country cannot
be brought face to face with ruin, and rise,
as if by magic. TO a high level of pros
perity That the crisis has been success
fully passed is sufficient ground for hearty
satisfaction. The intangible thing known
as confidence had received too rude a
shock to recover with a bound, and all
the currents of industrial and commercial
activity had been too much contracted to
render it probable that they should at once
start into flood.
Meanwhile, there has been n resumption
of work all over the country on scale
never witnessed after any preceding period
of political suspense, and there has been
a continuance of the process Of agricultural
recovery whose beginning did much TO
demonstrate the falsity of the arguments
of the free silver party. Directly and in
directly. the result OF the election has add
ed enormously to the wealth OF the Coun-
try. 1t has kept productive machinery
from sinking to the rank of old metal, and
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
real estate from joining the class of use
less brick and mortar. The future is reck
oreG secure. and il is on our estimate Of
the future that the wealth of the present
largely depends. The CffaC: on tho railroad
property OF the country alone of the avoid
anCa Of a peril so deadly as that of de-
preCiatCf currency can only be calculated
by CompoundinG the sacrifice of years of
income, and all hut universal bankruptcy.
The relief from the impending ppssibili-
ties of Organism ought to h. regarded as
Improvement enough to satisfy the most
exactirs. even II the enterprise which these
possibilities checked and the activity they
paraly2ed have not fully resumed their aC-
custOiEcd swing.
Six months is surely not too long to allow
for the newly created capital to get into
the cirrulatory veins Of trade. People have
been exercising enforced caution too long
to realize all at once that the necessity for
It has passed. Recovery will be all the
more certain and permanent OF being
something more than the product of mere
sentiment. 1t is something to he able to
feel the assurance that the long period of
agricultural depression Is over. because the
productive and consumptive energies OF the
grain consuming world have been brought
into something like equilibrium. Apparent
w. temporary influences bear 4 large share
in this. but these Influences would have
had no such effect had consumption not
been rapidly gaining on production. On
the solid basis of national prosperity. tho
raising OF the superstruCture is merely a
question Of time. energy and prudence In
this. as in other matters the truth IS an
eternal one that raw haste is half-sistsr to