The age-herald., 1897-08-01
PROSPERITY.

PROSPERITY.
 Our republican cositemporaries are ju5ilant ov.r the busar ss situa ton. They dsclsHe that prosperity is already hare, elrd their columns are filed with letters and interviews, in which their leading s'taite2mf are enthusiastic over the brgh1r outlook.
 The Aga-Herald is no calamity bowler but it embraces the opportunity 70 say that the people are not indebed to the republican parry fer the improveme nit in trade and industrial circles. The d pres- sion has simply run it's course; he re- action hias come; the pendulum is begin- ming to swing backward. The people have eccnomized more. worked harder and saved mere than thy ever did before in thleip lives, and this lime of conduci has been their salvation.
 GIere in Birminghnm we got through with the boom fever lo7g ago, and settled down to work under hose healthy, nat ural conditions which promote sure and st ady growth. With our matchaees and ine&ba ustnble resources the city Is bound to become within a few years perhaps the largest southern metropolis. It's growth will be rapid enough, and our in eressts will nequire no booming.
 The thing to do neiw is to plan aind build up for i.lhs future. Let us tlve no temporary make-shifts. Every public dm- provemeEt should be SO c6ns'truuoe'd as to make it answer the needs of the general tion 10 come after us.
 Birmingham will be a big swent5efh century city, and it IS nc. too sllrly for her to try twentelbh ceIiury methods.
 Eugene V. Debs says that his new scheme is ''lndustrfal, social and polbti- cal'' It is truely refreshing 70 know that after the vast amount of idlenes;s he has be- a instrumental in enforcing, from tirne to time, that he has at last daD5m na'.ed indus,hy as one of the funda men al prin- ciples of his philosophy. t The Japanese minister at Washir g ton announces that his government has de- cided to accept arbitration in scttlem mt of existing difficulties win the Unf4ed States. The country is doubtless relieved to feel that all danger of becoming, through conquest. a dependl ncy of Japan is, for the present averted.
 
 Bishop Turner takes a gloomy view of the future of the negro race. He be- lieves that the recent epidemic of lynch ing is one of the Almighty's warnings to the blacks to leave this country and go to Africa. If the bishop will exert all his influence to make his people behave themselves they will get along very well in their present home.
 
 The good people of Georgia are greatly worried over the lynching business, but it will all come right in the end. Lynch ing and the crime which provokes it can- not last in a progressive and enlightened country. The two evils will gradually die out and become ancient history. The smallpox scare was greatly exag- gerated in some of the outside rSwspa- pers. It never amounted to anything Every city in the country has an occa- sional touch of it, but it is speedily stamped out
 Maj. Moses P. Handy will make an ideal special commissioner to the Paris exposition. He will captivate the French in seven different languages, and make his whiskers the reigning style. The Alabama weeklies a growth g bet ter and brighter every year. They show the unmistakable signs of first class newspaper talent.
 
 Georgia's governor is about to wrestle with the school book trust He will think that he has tackled an octopus be-