The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-09

certainty and lack OF confidence In the
future, and while the good citizens Of
Wheeling were fielding the unemployed
was calling the Inteligencer Calamity
Jane" for calling attention to the logic Of
the situation. There was calamity on
every side, 1t was here and everybody
was suffering from 1t.
The circumstances are entirely differ.
emit now, The agitation of financial and
other heresies last year, by finaneiers
without finances or experience, had un-
settled business and created another
period OF uncertainty and dread, but the
election came, the heresies were defeated
and confidence was at once restored
While the country continued, in the vary
nature OF things, to suffer from the de.
pressed effects of the panic of 1898 and
the low tariff which had let in millions Of
dollars worth of foreign products to force
American labor out of work and wages.
there was confidence on every hand in
the future, because a party was elected
to power which did not threaten the sta
bility OF our currency and whose tariff
legislation never had been in the interest
OF the foreign manufacturer and against
the American producer.
This confidence was the beginning OF
a steady Improvement. which could not
reach the flood tide until the disastrous
laws were repealed and the policy Of the
new administration could be put into
force. Notwithstanding the depression
there was no real calamity. There were
no soup houses, no coxey armies, no
public subscriptions to relieve suffering.
for. hard as times were, there was no de-
mand for these things, And yet the
Bryanite newspapers, for political pur-
poses only, were howllng calamity, and
sneering at every report of business i'm
proVement,
While thoughtful men were thankful
that panic had been averted by the de-
feat of dishonest money, and were grati-
fled that signs were pointing to a gradual
recovery OF a patient that had been sick
for four years. these organs were con-
tinuing their policy OF preaching discon-
tent and indulglng in pessImistic sneers,
Even now. when Providence has blessed
the country with abundant crops, and
when the agrlculturalIsts are receiving
good prices for their products, and pros
perity is returning, and western farmers
are telegraphing to the man who mIsled
them with his cheap money cry last year
to stop his calamity howl; when from
manufacturing and trade centres cheer
Ing news of an Industrial and trade re.
vlval 10 being sent out; when money Is
being taken from the strong boxes and
put into circulation; when there are
bright prospects for a prosperous fall
trade and steady employment IN the
mills and factorIes-even now, with these
things going on, and business men, wage
workers and farmers are strong with
confidence and hope in the future, some
of these organs are continuing the cal
amlty howl.
But the cry IS growing weaker. There
is lack of enthusiasm in 1t which lndl-
Gates that slowly but surely the convlc-
ton is being forced on the minds of the
Popocratic editors that this great coun-
try is entering upon another era of pros
perIty. There is difference In pointing
out the causes of calamity which act
ually exists and in bowling calamity
when the process of recovery is manifest
on every hand. In one instance the rem
edy IS pointed out; in the other the work
of Improvement is retarded by pesslmIs-
tic rawlings.