Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-10
BUSINESS REVIVAL.

ST Louis Republic: We can we'll afford 20
! take a rest from politics to start and keep
! the wheels Of commerce humming. The
mark of good times will probably go as
| high as the people choose 10 make It,
! Philadelphia Times: In short there is
! everything to make the American citizen
! feel that an era of prosperity has dawncd
! upon him and the country, and every one,
| big and little, should feel that he has some
| thing to do with the prompt revival OF busi-
ness and prosperity The political battle has
| been fought: integrity has fairly and
dccisively won, and now for business.
Springfield Republican: The outlook is
| bright. Orders for goods are already be-
! ginning TO fly about. Purchases of raw
| material by the mills on an extensive scale
| is feature Of the last two or three days.
| AS enterprise branches out in one direction
1t invites extension in another, and 50 the
| Whole business movement moves outward
and onward. The Frightened national credit
must attraC; hithcT new supplies of foreign
| capital whose operations will enlarge the
sphere of domestic industrial activity and
help on to prosperous conclusions.
Philadelphia Ledger: A revival of pros.
perity is now in progress, the like of which
we believe has never been recorded In our
annals. Closed mills and factories are re
opening all over the country and the prom
Use OF those who prophcsied this revival
| upon the retirement Of Mr.. Bryan from
the political scene Is having remarkable
fulhllment. Thousands of industrious work
nren, the men to whom Mr. Bryan imputed
the grossest hypocrisy In espousing the
cause OF Mckinley and Hobart, are finding
employment. one must give reins to his
imagination 10 describe what would have
befallen the country had Mr.. Bryan been
elected.
Chicago Chronicle: There is another thing
which should not be overlooked. Industry
and trade have been depressed since the
panic of 1898, as they always are after such
revulsion. II is about time to expect re-
covery In the natural course OF things In
iact there were unmistakablp signs of re-
coyery when populism Feared its threatening
'front.' Ihen the stagnation and prostration
became worse than ever. Men feared IN
embark upon the sea OF enterprise until they
knew whether the American people really
meant to turn loose tempest of repudia-
! tion and wreck everything in sight Now
that the question has been pretty thor
oughly settled it Is natural that the course
| OF recovery. which was rudely interrupted
10y the populists should be resumed
ST Louis Globe7Democrat: On Wednes-
day morning last. the moment when Nc
hiniey's election became positively known
to the country gold to the extent of man,
mll!ions OF dollars boarded IN the fear of
bFEahS victory, came out Of its hiding
places; hundreds OF thousands of orders for
goods or various sorts contingent on Bryan's
ueItat began to be filled. and scores of mills
''' '"Cto'ieS, tllntr lule or running
snort time, started to hum. On the other
hand If Bryan had been elected a run
would have been made on the treasury and
Vh the banks on Wednesday morning tho
| pahks would have drawn in their loans
mercantile houses and financial institutions
would nave tumbled like edifices of cards
ana today the country would have been I'm
me throes OF panic. compared with which
the convulsions Of 1887. 1857 1873 and lSg3
were as zephyrs TO a tornado.
Kansas City Star: Then came the election
WIN IT'S endorsement of gold as the standard
IN this country, as II is of every great com
merclaI country in the world. And
this result being known and conceded
gold came forth and resumed its place as a
circulating medium. This one fact ont
weighed thousand specious theories. Men
mad said that there was no gold in clrcula
tlon, but here II shOne in mems hands and
pocNetDooks-all that was asked for all
that was needed. The scheme TO drive II
out or use had failed, the threats against II
had proved fruitless and here it was. every
Nhere, gold money OF the United States
ANA It has come to stay. Not the rich mans
money or the poor mans money but every
body's money. And, further, 1t has not only
come, but is coming, more and more; more
last year than ever before in the history of
the world, and more this year than last year.
ana with the prospect of yet more next year.