The Monmouth inquirer., 1897-07-08
Prosperity is Coming.

Even Mr. Bryan's personal organ.
the Omaha World Herald refuses
longer to follow him in declining f0
recognize returning prosneritv.
That paper, which has published
many articles on this subject. calls at
tention ia recent issue to the fact
that there is a marked activity and
general improved condition ii the
stock business and stock markets OF
the west and predicts that this i'm
provefnent viii continue.
For one, | do not believe 1t posi-
bic to succeed upon a platform that
demands the unqualified free Coinage
of silver at the ratio Of 16 to 1 with
gold. We have fought that battle
and 1t is lost. We can never fight it
over under circumstances more favor
able to ourselves. If we hope to sue
ceed, we must abandon this extreme
demand. p Governor Boies pf
Iowa in letter to Col d. H. Fox. Of
Des Moines.
The 'statisticians who furnished
those exciting tables cf prices for last
falls silver campaign BIZ which they
professed to show that wheat and sil-
yer had kept pace in rise and fall
ince the crime of 773'' are finding
title market for their tables this year.
The fact that wheat has steadily adz
vanced in value while silver has stead
ily declined during the past year has
taken the edge of the popular appez
tite for that sort of mental fodder.
The four months since Vim. MeKin-
ley was inaugurated have been big
with events No other adfninistraA
ton ever did SO much IN so short d
time. and none was ever able to ne
compllsh suca results under such ad-
verse circumstances The people
who are inclined to grumble because
four years work have not been COM
pleted in four months IN the face Of
an adverse majority in the Senate do
themselves, the country and the
President injustice.
Money talks The mine owners are
the men who have put up the cash to
keep the silver campaign running.
and they look upon it as their right
to determine who shall lead the fight
for which they are paying. They are
perfectly cold -blooded about it. and
since they see that Teller or Towne
would hprnore useful to them than
BryanE 10y have no hesitation in
ordering the Nebra ska orator off the
track and substituting Teller or
Towne as their leader for the next
national campaign.
Isn't il a little cheeky + OF of
foreign nations who have ae to
do with our affairs to asa Offering
protests against our tariff, especial
~ as nearly all of them have protec-
tive tariffs Of their own against which
we have never Offered a reInonstrance
of any sortg And isn't it rather cool
for them TO hint at retaliation against
any tariff which We may adopt. when
Learly every one of them knows that
to do this would disturb commercial
relations with us in which the balance
of trade is enormously ia their favors
Dun's Review, which is looked up
on by business men as reliable indi-
Gator of business conditions. con-
tinues to speak eneouragingly Of the
improvement in all lines In its issue
of June 26th it says: Il here IS no
back ward step in business, although
the season f midsummer quiet is
near. Improvement continues, grad
ual and prudently cautious as before.
although in many branches evident
where no signs of it appeared few
weeks ago. Business men of the
highest standing in all parts of the
country, having gradually perceived
that the tide has begun TO rise. are
regulating their contracts and invest
meRts and the plans .or the future
with confidence quite unknown to
them a short time ago. Great
changes before the adjournment of
Congress are hardly to be expected
but removal of uncertainty is with
reason expected to bring into opera
ton buying forces which have been
restricted for months. The main
factor at that time is the steadily
Frightening prospects for crops.
Harvesting of wheat has already be-
gun, with surprisingly good results,
aid statisticians of repute calculate
that the winter wheat crop will be
go, 900. 900 bushels beyond the Govern
ment estimate