Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-09-16
BIG BOOM IN TRADE.
WESTERN MERCHANTS Buy
HEAVILY OF GOODS.
BUY
This IL Made Necessary to Meet In
creased Demands of Farmers anu
Neutrality-suspicious. of Money As
Now Bein. Put in Circulation.
Silver Question Dead.

of increasing volume, but reports OF
business improvement continue TO come
in from every direction and business
men from all parts of the country are III
the East buying their fall stock. Some
of them stop over in Washington en-
route with good news Of activity, goou
prices. mortgages being paid ana
marked change in the views OF the
people.
| "You could not realize what change
/ has come over the people" said one
| gentleman who had just come from the
Pacific coast. II came through that
! great Northwestern country where the
| free silver epidemic was raging at tnls
time last year and was absolutely as
tonished at the change. The demand
for the free coinage of silver has dis
appeared and thousands of men VINO
! advocated it a year ago now admit that
thew were wrong. Tens of thousands
/ are indicating their qualification that
it failed and did not hear Of any who
regretted his vote for Mckinley, SOUND
money and protection"
what has brought this change in SO
short a time?"
Improved business conditions, i'm
proved confidence, improved wages ana
improved prices. They have all come
steadily since the election Of Mckinley
and especially since it became known
that a protective tariff law would be
promptly passed, and they have come in
the face of a steady fall in the value or
silver. This fact shows to even the
most unthinking that they were being
imposed upon last year by the state
ment that prosperity could only come
through the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and has thoroughly disguised
them. never saw SO sudden change
in so short a time"
''But the silverites say that the high
price OF wheat is due to the shortage
abroad and that the silver question has
nothing to do with it,"
'On the same theory it might be ar
gued that the low price was due to the
surplusage abroad and that the silver
question had nothing to do with that,
| and that is just about the truth of it,
too. cut it is not the advance of wheat
| alone that convinces them that the
'hand-in- hand-with-silver' theory was
! humbug. They find undoubted proof
Of this in wool, which is a great staple
with them, as it is in Ohio. Wool has
! advanced so per cent in the past year,
and yet silver has fallen meantime.
And there is no excuse for the state
! ment that this advance is due to big
| \ ~ I,
try is consumed at home. This country
has been within the past few months
damned full Of wool and yet tie price
of our product has advanced so per cent
: in the face of this large supply and also
in me face of the fall in silver. How do
you account for this? Simply because
silver has nothing to do with it, but
protection, prosperity and home manu-
facture have everything. And the peo-
pie are seeing it and are seeing how
nearly they came to being made mon
keys Of in last falls election"
Busting Business from the West.
Parties arriving here from New York
say that city is full of bustling, eager
merchants from the West, who have
arrangement made for the purpose of
taking them to New York and bringing
them into closer business relationship
! where practicable. The crowds of buy
ers who visited the headquarters of the
| Merchants Association were even larg-
er than had been expected. 1t was
found necessary to make use of a Sec
| nnH or % no
ors and two lines were formed by those
who wished to record their arrival The
number registered was twice as large
as that which registered on the first day
of the first excursion from the same ter
ritory. Many of the merchants brought
their wives and children under the re-
duced rate privilege granted by the
Joint Traffic railways. They came
mainly from the section bounded in the
west by the Mississippi, in the south by
the Ohio river and in the east by Buffa-
10 and Pittsburg. The indications are
that another $5O,0OO,0OO, at least, will
go into the pockets of New York mer-
chants before the excursion is over.
They generally brought good reports
of the business condition, and their
presence and cheerful confidence prov
ed very encouraging to the mercantile
community and added to the weight of
evidence Of return of prosperity
ALBERT B. CARSON.
Outgrowth of Democracy.
! That trusts are the outgrowth of
Democratic policies and maladminis-
tration is clearly proven when we see