Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-09-25
BIG BOOM IN TRADE.
WESTERN MERCHANTS BUY
HEAVILY OF GOODS.
This Ia Made Necessary TO Meet In.
creased Demands of Farmers and
WorkinGmca-plcnty of Money Is
Now Being Pat Ia Circulation.
silver NueatiOn Dend.
Special Washington correspondence:

" Gt - 1870
Special Washington correspondence:
Washington business Itself IS per
haps a little slow in feeling the effect
OF increasing volume, but reports of
business Improvement continue TO come
in from every direction and business
men from al parts Of the country are in
the East buying their fall stock. Some
OF them stop over in Washington Ell
route with good news Of activity, good
prices, mortgages being paid ana Il
marked change in the views of the
people.
You could not realize what Il change
has come over the people" said one
gentleman who had just come from the
Pacific coast. Il came through that
great Northwestern country where the
free silver epidemic was raging ut this
time last year and was absolutely as
tonislled at the change. The demand
for the free coinage Of silver has dis
appeared and thousands of men who
advocated Ii Il year ago now admit that
they We're wrong. Tens of thousands
are indicating their qualification thai
~ hllb 1 'lAil 4A'A h'hi " "hs -
regretted his vote for Mckinley, sound
money and protection
"What has brought this change In so
short II timet"
"~lmprovCA business conditions, I'M
proved confidence, improved wages and
improved prices. They have all come
steadily since the election Of Mckinley
and especially since 1t became known
that Il protective tariff law would he
promptly passed. and they have come in
the face of Il steady fall in the value OF
silver. This fact shows 20 even the
most unthinking that they were being
imposed upon last year by the state
mcnt that prosperity could only comc
through the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver and has thoroughly Disguised
them. ! never saw so sudden Il change.
in so short a time"
But the si,vcritcS say that the high
price OF wheat is due to the shortage
abroad and that the silver question has
nothing TO do with IT,"
ION the same theory 1t might be az.
gueu that the low price was due to the
surplusage| abroad and that the silver
question had nothing to do with that.
and that is just about tn" truth of il,
too. But it is not the advance Of wheat
alone that convinrcS them that the
Observation-Disclosures theory was Il
humbug. They find updoubted proof
Of this in wool. which is Il great staple
with them, as it is in Ohio. Wool has
advanced 20 per cent in the past year,
and yet silver has fallen meantime.
And there is no excuse for the state
mrnt that this advance Is duo 10 bio
foreign demahd. The wool of this coun-
try IS consumed at home. This country
has been within the past few months
jammed fun of wool ana yet tie price
of our product has advanced 30 per cent
in the face Of this large supply and also
in unc face of the fall in silver. How do
you account for this? Simply because
silver has nothing 10 do with II. but
protection, prosperity and home manu-
facture have everything. And the pco-
pie are seeing il and are seeing how
nearly they came to being made mon
keys Of in last falls election"
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merchants from the West. who havC
come there under Il ncial excursion
arrangement made for the purpose of
taking thcm 10 New York and bringing
them into closer business relationship
where practicable. The crowds of buy
ers who visited the Headquarters of the
Merchants Association were even larg-
er than had been expected. 1t was
found necessary to make use Of a sec
Ond register for the names of the visit
ors aud two lines were formed hy those
who wished TO record their arrival. The
number registered was twice as large
as that which registered on the first day
of the first excursion from the same ter
ritOry. Many Of the merchants brought
their wives ana children under the re-
duccd rate privilege granted by the
Joint Traffic railways. They came
mainly from the section bounded in the
west by the Mississippi, in the south by
the Ohio river and in the east by Buffa-
10 and PittSburg. The indications are
that another S50,0 COG, OGO, ut least, will
go into the pockets Of New York mcr-
chants before the excursion IS over.
They generally brought good reports
of the business condition, and their
presence and cheerful confidence prov
ed very encouraging to the mercantile
community and added to the weight Of
evidence of return of prosperity.
ALBERT b. CARSON.