Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-13
A QUICK

The weekly review of II. G. Dunn n
Co. just before election was gloomy in-
deed concerningth the condition of trade.
The one following election has a differ.
ent ring. Read it:
"a great revolution has been effected
this week in the conditions which son
troll business. 1t could not be in n
fair degree reflected as vet in transac-
tions or i'll records, but there is ample
evidence already that a crushing weight
has been removed and the business of
the world has adjusted itself to a state
of freedom and security which it has
not known for years, andnew contracts
involving many millions have become
binding since the election. The in
slant vanishing of the premium on
gold which had reached about . per
cent, the unlocking of many millions
which had been boarded. the collapse
of the interest rate from S and u to 6
and 51a per cent andthe quick demand
for American securities on foreign ac-
count are signs of more lasting PROM
ise.'
Along the same line the following
special Washington correspondence to
the Sioux City Journal will be inter-
esting, and increase the assurance that
we already have that McKinley's cleo
ton will prove beneficial to the whole
country. The correspondent says:
''There will be no further delay in
providing for the expenditure of money
appropriated by congress. The uncer-
tainty existing since the adoption of
the platform in Chicago has depressed
business everywhere. The government
al receipts from customs and internal
revenue have fallen to an extremely
low point. Scarcely Il dollar of the
millions provided for river and harbor
work has been expended thus far and
if the returns on Tuesday had been re-
versed no contracts would have been
arranged, but with the certainty of u
business revival steps are now being
taken to set the dredges and scows at
work all over the country. and as soon
as contracts can be made thousands of
factories. carpenters. maSonS and enyi-
neers will be set at work upon river
and harborimprovements. The delayed
contracts for vessels and guns for the
marine service. the light house depart
ment and the navy are to be awarded
mt one Many of those have been de-
layed because of the u~nwillingness of
contractors to take any business risks.
pending the uncertainty of the cam
paign.
Word comes OF the revival of manu-
featuring enterprises all over the coun-
try. 1t is said that more thana million
factories and mill operatives who have
been out of employment or at work on
half time for the pastyenr will be earn
ing wages by Monday. In the mean
time the comptroller of the currency is
advised that banks everywhere have
opened their vaults and that the line
of discounts is being extended so that
within II few weeks the money string.
ency will have vanished aud the bank
ing business will resume the condition
which prevailed previous to the panic
of 1S93.'
Eventhe democratic newspapers give
accounts that are really glowing, of the
revival of business generally, the start.
ing of mills and factories, the continual
upward tendency of farm produce, and
n better feeling in all business and
financial circles. No part of orr great
country can help feeling the effects OF