The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-14
SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES.

Des Mcines Capital: Times are growing
better Look al the excursion trains that
have gone 70 California; People would not
be spending money like that If they were
as hard Up as the TiIlrnan and White men
say they are. The willing workers Of
America scarcely know what hard times
are.
Giobe-D emccrat: The number OF bust
ness failures for the first half OF the cali
enGar year 1885, and the amount OF ia-
bilities involved are below those OF the
same period IN isss. This is the testimony
Of the commercial agencies tables. Here
is an encouraging indication. The bank
clearances and railroad earnings show
that the volume Of general trade through
out the country Is on the increase. while
the figures OF commercial mortality tndi-
cate that trade is on solder basis than
/, was last year. When the normal con-
ditions in the business world are COM
pletely restored long period OF financial
prosperity may reasonably De looked for.
Detroit Free Press: To the encouraging
reports OF the city's manufacturing and
mercantile institutions as to the present
state CT trade and the outlook for the fu-
ture may be added the improved showing
in clearing house transactions, a crafty
ing percentage Of increase being reported
by the commercial agencies for the first
OF a lifting up in business CORES pond with
the cheerful predictions of authorities
whose survey covers the whole country,
and there must be something in all this
talk OF better feeling and strengthen
ing hopes. The country's resources are
too vast and varied, and its reserve power
too great for it 10 remain long an invalid.
New York Mail and Express: Strange
echoes come from distant kansas-echoes
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harvest their marvellous crops, echoes Of
reaping machines at work in the grain
fields from dawn until night, and Of the
laughter of thousands Of women and
children who have temporarily left their
homes to aid in gathering the most mag
nifcent yield OF wheat with which the
state has ever been blessed. These are
cheering voices to come from any state,
but they are doubly assuring when they
gloomy forebodings of the demagogue and
the grumbler. They contound the evil
prophecies OF the calamity howler and
they send forth TO the world the inspiring
message that Kansas is all right, in spite
OF her winners and croakers.
Philadelphia Inquirer. There have been
moments when the Inquirer feared that IL
had perhaps erred in declaring that times
must be improving in Pennsylvania and
who can blame il? The mills were open
ing one after another. the furnaces were
rapidly being blown in, the railways I'm
der the stimulus OF increased earnings.
were laying new lines or improving old
ones, the men on quarter time were be-
ing put on half time. those on half time
were forced TO work full time some were
even obliged 10 toll extra hours but what
do these things indicate except that bus
mess depression is daily growing great
err" II the mills had closed and the soup
houses had opened We would have known
that the good old Democratic times
were with Us still. But how could any,
body be certain when every county gave
evidence Of renewed activity?