Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-19
THE FIRST FRUITS.

The Certainty That sound Financial
Basis is to be Preserved Has Alread,
Given n Wonderful Impetus to Industry
In Every Corner of the Whole Country.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., November l2.-
| Especial correspondence THE first
fruits promised in the name of sound
money are being promptly gathered.
Business paralsis was explained on the
score OF lack of confidence prevailing
in the business world, aud this it was
stated would be relieved by the defeat
of Mr.. Bryan. The silver men saw in
the statement only form of coercion.
1t was trick of the manufacturers,
they asserted, to organize the wage
earners into Mckinley clubs. The
wage-earners were warned against such
talk and urged to believe that nothing
short OF free silver triumph would
start wheels in motion again. But the
wheels, as promises, are turning again.
Sound money won, great establish
ments everywhere are starting up on
full time, and thousands of men, long
idle, are trooping to work with good
wages in sight.
This is the spectacle the people of
the United States best enjoy. 1t car
ries hope and confidence everywhere
throughout the land 1t .redeems all
that Mckinley uttered in that series Of
fehcitious speeches at Canton, and it
links his name afresh with good will
and good times, 1t stamps him as be-
ing, in fact, as in the mere conjury of
campaign claims, 1.-The advance agent
OF prosperity"
The starting up Of the great work
shops is of course only one thing nee
essary to the solution OF the country's
difficulties. But it is very important
thing: and who shall say that, with
such a beginning, the sound money
triumph will not bring about every
thing that has been promised in its
name? II there is work for the great
body of people who need work and live
by work there will be small work for
the agitators; and the less excuse there
may be for the activity of these men
the better it will be for the peace and
welfare of the country.
The announcement that the silver
men will keep up their organizations
and continue their assaults on sound
tnopay 6nanca naad not ond nro bo bl a,
will not prove disturbing. With
President in the White House firm in
his intention to preserve the national
credit, and supported ~ ~nly 'ryy -
by an aroused business sentiment in
structed in the dear school of exper-
fence, all wildcat schemes for produc-
ing wealth, or for bringing into every
day use on earth the conditions of the
New Jerusalem, will be likely to prove
discomfortlng only to their authors.
The combination of good sense and
good times is the strongest Of all COM
binations in the affairs of men, and,
against 1T, visionaries, as a rule, play
their little games in vain.
Meanwhile no harm can come from
pointing out the Improvement in the
situation as it proceeds, and in that
good work the writer from time to
time, in appropriate way and season,
will lend his services.
1t may be accepted as practically as
sured that the financial question will
be taken up ahead of the tariff by the
Fifty-fifth Congress. An attempt will
be made to get the Dingley revenue
bill through the Senate at this session,
and il the attempt succeeds, Mr.. Cleve-
land will sign the bill. An extra ses-
sion of the Fifty-fifth Congress will be
assembled as soon as possible after
Mr.. Mckinley enters the White House.
The first thing TO be taken up at this
special session will be a preliminary
adjustment of the financial question.
The tariff question is to be taken up
next in order. 1t is not intended, as
many think probable, that there will
be any effect made TO patch up the
Wilson-Gorman bill. The purpose
will be to make an en- tirely new tariff
bill, drawn on strictly protection lines.
This bill will be drawn with the de
liberation necessary to the production
OF scietific measure. The hope will
be entertained that pending the adop-
tion OF this measure such progress will
be made as to insure the passage of a
bill at an earll day.
CHARLES H. PIERCE