The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-28
s0cKEYEs Ann PROSPERITY.

sOCKEYEs AND PROSPERITY.
n s~esns highly improbable that the
passage OF the tariff bill or the strike IN
tie clondyke district can interest sock
eyes. 80 tssat the rush Of the salmon into
tha traps must be attributed to some
other cause. In view OF the difficulty nf
arriving at the true object of the fish.
which - so uncertain In .,s quantity, we
can only attribute the capture Of thirty
thousand salmon in one nigh, to the gea-
ersI tide Of prosperity which has started
In 20 Tow this year. The election Of Nc
kinley has been frequently referred to
In connection with this agreeable topic.
Bat the great catch Is not 30 directly
sraccabie TO tina; cause as In tho large
number Of marriages taking place this
year.
Tho record o. weddings this year prom
sses ~ eclipse that OF all others within
& decade. and {. II not TO be explained
upon the rules which ordinarily govern
In Incidents arising out Of a prospect OF
employment and q promise OF good wages.
Misery likes comrsny. and it has been
sometimes said that when times are hard
young people who have heard that txo
could live as cheaply as one have entered
into matrimonial combination solely
or almost soleiy-for purposes OF econ
omy. That seems very plausible. but,
as matter of fact. marriages are ost
plentiful unless n.orey is plentiful.
Prosperity in causing nobody so much
trouble rs those free silver organs which
this people would be starved to death
BY June, ard grim and gaunt Disaster
would wave It's hony finger over calam-
ity-stricken country. but prosperity
ccmes triumphantiy riding along with its
Jolly face radisted by smiles. and its
pce;.sss plethoric with money, which IT
Is casting right and left. From the
eornucop.a Of Alaska. which is throwing
rat It's stream OF geld. to the Kitti,as
county COW. which was reported to havs
Increased It's yield of milk the day after
Mckinley WAS elected. from the city OF
Louisville. where the Avery rIow Com
paay has resumed operations. after a
~
snent TO nearly two thousand men, up
10 Connecticut, wfe-c the mills are once
more running. from Washington. where
lumber and wheat are both keeping men
busy and offering bright visions for a
preft which has long been wanting: from
the peach orchards OF New Jersey. from
the increased bank ciearanees TO the sus-
pension OF populist newspapers, there
comes the promise of Improvement, the
opening W OF a sunllt vista
The sound money newspapers of the
South are having n good deal Of fun with
III" free silver calamity papers OF their
states. They point 10 the price Of wheat
and ask bow II IL that SO long after
Hanna has been elected he IL stil con-
tfshutlng to the corruption fund which Is
yielding the farmer a profit Of from 20
u ~ cents 4 bGshei One o! them tells
Of North Georgia free silver. fat money
farmer. who has just been bunkoed out
If several hundred dollars with whlca
ho bought machine. which he WAS led
"a believe would make bright new twenty
dollar bills by simply turning a crank
Prom sieverpors. in Kentucky, comes
the news that s2hacco. which cosx s. per
hundred 20 raise. haa been sold for sii.-.
Ia Glasgow. the sstne state, Il - reported,
that more lumber has been delivered dur.
!ng the past week than during any Ike
period for several years \ pa per which
Feieioss IN the name o, Fulton Ola
Time White Metal" says that IA
sptss c. the hard times il can
safely be said that more la
prevemente alens.. building lines have
/ beea made since January / than In shy
swo previous years" /, gives soae
ether Indications. and says that as a
result business along almost every Hns
IS showing increased activity" The Clay
city Chroulclc. which "a also a free silver
p7per. says that there are more houses
occupies in Clay City todsy than ,-ere
have teen STAGE the boom SIX or sevea
years aso.'
All ~ which goes 20 show that even
/ Down n she South tie men who are a.
/ Work are making money sua occupying
homes. aud the only msn who Is LOSING
IS the ono who wants a machine Tor turn-
uS cat twenty dollar hGls by merely
turning 4 crank