The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-02
IN FULL TIDE NOW.

Week after week the improvement in
trade becomes more marked. All sections
of the country report business better.
The best feature of the revival Is that the
products of the farm are reaping the bene-
fit of it. Almost everything the farmer
raises is selling at profitable prices. The
Importance of this cannot be overestl-
mated. For long time the farmer has
been at the bottom of the ladder and in
consequence the whole country has
languished.
A brief summary of the advance in farm
produce will show the immense gain the
farmer is reaping. Wheat is in quick de-
mand at say ST. 40. Hay has scared sky
ward and now brings from So to $15 per
ton, though there is no really good hay
selling under $40. Barley is bringing
from IS 10 80 cents for feed up TO 81 10 for
brewing descriptions for shipment 10
Europe and the latter is in active de-
mand. All products of the hog are selling
brlskly at steadily advancing prices.
So much has been written of the activity
in wool that it is not necessary TO mention
this staple. Dried fruit is in increasing
demand at steadily rising prices and a
lively fall trade is confidently looked for.
New raisins are also in good demand for
Eastern account. Beans have lately gone
up in an old-time way, thanks to the new
tariff and q demand for shipment, and
potatoes are wanted for all points west OF
the Missouri River, including Klondyke.
These are the principal farm staples, if We
except wine, hence il will be seen that the
ia rmer is getting back into clover again.
1t is the same in the East. The Louisi-
ana sugar planters are voluntarily ad-
vancing the wages of their plantation
hands because the new tariff and large
crop coming together enable them to d o
so. All over the West the advance in
wheat is lifting up old moss covered
mortgages and placing the now iubilant
farmer on his feet.
In the financial ceuters OF the Atlantic
Coast the tendency in everything is
toward higher level. The stock market
has been steadily advancing for weeks.
A free call for merchandise has succeeded
the lethargy Of the past four years. The
money supply of the country has in
creased $173. S65, 900 over this time last
year.
A trade journal, in commenting on the
remarkable gain in business this year
points out that the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1897, shows a larger and more
varied export trade from this country than
ever before. The total value of all ex-
ports was 81, 051 9S7, 091, an increase over
1896 of $16s, $50, 153. While imports were
enormous toward the close, the total was
nn
namely 1898, ana an enormous quantity
of American securities, no record of which
is kept, were returned to pay off the
European indebtedness to the country on
account of our exports purchased there.
Cotton, preadstuffs, provisions, cattle,
mineral, oil and other products lead, but
maps and books, carriages. cars locomo-
tives, printing presses, agricultural imple-
ments, steel rails, soap, manufactures of
wood, hardware, leather, gunpowder and
a thousand other mann featured articles
greatly aid to swell the big total. The
exports of bicycles reached S. 500, 900, as
against 81, 500. 600 the year previous.
The hard times consequent upon the
great financial panic OF 1893 are over, and
the panic itself is now matter OF history.
From now on the United States will prob
ably enjoy long season of prosperity +,
unless, through some incompreh ensible
faulty on the part OF tn American peo-
pie, the Democratic party be restored to
power again some time in the future. For
If that party ever gets control again it will
lmme diately take off the tariff, and the
usual panic will make its appearance with
the customary prom ptitude; for this is the
history of the Democratic party.