The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-05
THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS.
Republican Success Creates q Wonderful
Transformation.

The REVIVAL Of BUSINESS.
Republican Success Creates q Wonderful
| Transformations
For two weeks this country has pre-
scented an object lesson that may well
tax the worlds wonder. History fur
nishes no such illustration OF the al
most miracu lous effect of y revival Of
public confidence upon all departments
of trade and business. upon manufac-
turing, mining and commercial enter
crises, upon all the industries of the
nation. its financial undertakings, its
invested and it's idle capital. it's en-
ployed and it's unemployed labor, ns
these ten days have shown us. 1t has
omazed even those who predicted the
most far-reaching and widely extended
beneficial results from the election
OF Mckinley and the triumph of the
principles of protection and sound
money. The most sanguine never
dreamed that the immediate effect
would be so marked and so universal.
They believed that republican success,
would reestablish confidence in all de-
partments of business and finance; con-
fidence between man and man and
confidence in the credit, the honor and
the stability of the government. AS
result of such restoration of public and
private faith they looked with the most
positive assurance for the gradual i'm
proyement and slow recovery from
the discouraging conditions which have
prevailed for now four years. In
cta Of .yrnltal ,hnn
witnessed TN almost miraculous trans
formation.
Still more surprising must this swift
upspringing of paraiyzed Industries,
arrested enterprises and sluggish trade
into new life and bounding activity
have been to the men, either mischev-
Gus or misguided, who for months and
themselves and others that the cause
OF all the depression and distress lay
in the continuance of the gold stand
ard, and that nothing except the free
coinage of silver would ever bring re-
lief, restore confidence and renew pros
pcrity. To these gentlemen the WITTY
ing and transforming effect upon bust
ness of the overwhelmingd defeat of their
chosen candidate and their cherished
principles must come as most start
ling surprise, if not, indeed, n revelation.
Quite possibly some of the most OBJ
stinate and unreasonable of them may
pretend to explain the business revival
upon the theory that it is not genuine,
but only a preconcerted squirt of cour-
terfeit activity planned BY the pluto
Gratis or effect upon the public mind;
just as they accounted for the trouble
some rise in wheat coincidcntly with n
drop in silver by attributing ii to the
Vaccinations of Mark Hanna. But the
great majority of those who honestly
Bryan because they believed
in his theories-those who are mis-
guided rather than misunderstanding
weak rather than wicked-cannot fail |
to comprehend the lesson of the last
ten days.
This ought to be especially true in
the southern states, which gave their |
electoral vote TO Bryan, not so much be-
cause the voters believed in him or
his theories as because they could not /
overcome their lifelong habit OF voting |
the democratic ticket, no matter what |
it stood for or who were the candidates. |
Already there are encouraging signs |
of new light breaking in upon the
more intelligent and thoughtful people
Of the south. They confess that they
had little heart in their support of
Bryan and took little stock in the finan-
cial heresies and anarchistic tendencies
Of the Chicago platform. They are not
so blind nor so obstinate as 10 refuse
to recognize the genuincness of the
business revival or to admit that 1t is
due to the restoration of confidence in
of Bryan's defeat. And
they do not need to be told that n re-
rival Of business all over the country
means as much for their own section
as for any other, If not, indeed, more.
They know that what the south needs
more than anything else for the pros
perity of it's business interests and
the material welfare of it's people Is
the development of its resources and
of it's industries. For
this it needs capital, and they know
that the antecedent condition for the
OF capital is a sound and
stable currency, insuring safe returns
in honest money. Having learned to
this extent the lesson of the late cleo
ton, they will not long stand in their
own light, but will drop Organism
and populism for good and all, and fall |
in with the procession already on the
march toward national prospcrity.-N.
Y. Tribune.