El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-23
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT.
Reports of Improvement Comes From
all Sections.

all Sections.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Sept. 20, 1897.
Reports of business improvement
continue to come in from every direC-
ton, and business men from all parts
of the country are in the east buying
their fall stock, and some of them stop
over in Washington en- route with good
news of activity. good prices, mort
cages being pail off, and marked
change in the views of the people.
| "You could not realize what a change
has come over thu people," said one
gentleman who had Ist come from the
Pacific coast. 81 came through that
great northwestern country, where the
free-silver epidemic was raging at this
| 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 who
advocated it a year ago now admit that
they were wrong Tens OF thousand
are indicating their qualification that
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 and
improved prices. They have all come
steadily since the election of Mckinley
and especially since it became known
that protective tariff law would be
in the face of steady fall
in the value of silver. This fact
shows to even the most unthinking
that they were being imposed upon
last year by the statement that pros
perity could only come through the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
and has thoroughly Disguised them.
T end oh Sn
short time"
'Bus the silverites say that the
high price Of wheat is due to the short
age abroad and that the silver question
has nothing to do with it,"
son the same theory it might be a.
gued that the low price was uue 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. But it is not the advance of
wheat alone that concerns them that
the hand in hand-with-silver' theory
was humbug. They find undOubted
proof of this in wool, which is great |
staple with them as it is in Ohio. |
Wool has advanced so per cent in the |
past year, and yet silver has fallen |
N can't me. And there is no excuse for |
tue statement that this advance is |
due to big foreign demand. The |
wool of this country is consumed at
home. This country has been within |
the past few months jammed full of
wool, and yet the price of our product |
has advanced so per cent in the face of
this large supply and also in the face of
the fall in silver. How do you ac-
count for this? Simply because silver
has rothing to do with it, but rotec-
ton, prosperity, land home manufacture
have everything. And the people are
seeing it, and are seeing how nearly
they came to being made monkeys
of in last falls election"
BUsTLING BUSINESS FROM THE WEST.
Parties arriving here from New
York say that city is full of bustling
eager merchants from the west who
have come there under special excur-
sion arrangement made for the pur-
pose of taking them to New York and
bringing them into closer business re-
where practicable. The
crowds of buyers who visited the head
quarters of the Merchants Association
were even larger than had been ex-
pected. 1t was found necessary to