The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-26

find that there has been a material advance
| all along the line. Good prices for the
| products of labor means good prices for the
workingman and demand for his services.
Marion Chronicle.
| The new tariff measure is not only the
most acceptable tariff law put upon the
| books in many years. but becomes a law
| earlier than any tariff act since the first
| one enacted by an American Congress.
| -Greenfield Republican
The new tariff law will meet the popular
demand. changes made by the conference
| committee being such as to bring it in line
/ with the wishes of the people especially
| those features relating to sugar wool and
| lican.
-Four years ago it was the threat of free
| trade which closed the factories and
crushed the life out of business, just as it
Is the promise of a protective tariff and
Republlcan times which is now opening the
factories, signing increased wage scales and
reVlVlng business.-Anderson Herald.
The currency commission proposition sug-
gested by President Mckinley has met with
very favorable comment from the people of
this country. irrespective of party. There
~ d general feeling that the entire currency
question should be taken into considera-
tlon, and plan of revision worked out if
practleal-Columbia City Mail.
Inc indiana farmer is at last enjoying
that almost unknown neutrality-suspicious.
ton. The new wheat is finding its way
to the elevators, and already is being
shipped to grain centers and to foreign
markets. The farmer is getting from 90 to 70
cents buShel to-day, II to 10 cents more
| tnan he received at the opening of the mar
ket last year. In return he is giving the
hnest quality of grain-large, plump solid
Montpelier Leader.
The large establishment of Gaar, Scott &
Co. is perhaps the best business barometer
IN this city. Hence the fact that that con-
Germ has been crowded to it's utmost ca
| paclty for weeks means great deal in the
way OF business improvement. Such a boom
| as II enjoys now has not been experienced
Tor years. More than 800 men are putting
III ten hours DAY III the mechanical de-
partment and office men from ten to twelve.
Richmond Palladium.
With Indiana farmers ready to pull in
from five to seven million dollars more for
their wheat than last year, an equal gain
on their hay and corn, not to speak of the
| oats, potatoes, rye, etc. and the usual
| stream of about five millions in gold or it's
| equivalent for cattle marketed this fall, the
| prospects of this class of our citizens being
aple TO SIT by the fire next winter and
| whistle Yankee Doodle" are fairly prom
ising.-Huntingto Argus.
There can be no doubt that the new tariff
will return the markets for the many lines
! of goods to our own producers. 1t will re-
| store the wooden industry and large num-
per OF varied industries which were lost by
the WilsOn-Gol man law. Furthermore. the
passage of the law will settle the tariff
question for a long time. Until it was
| settled by the passage of the bill MANY in
dustries waited. Now they can go with
| the assurance that question is very
largely out of politics.-Mount Vernon Sun.
Those who passed through the panic of
1873 will remember that it was nearly five
years before real estate reached the bottom
and that there was a splendid recovery i'll
YEA
| headed men made fortunes by buying
| before the rise. The conditions now are ia
! Vorable for similar speculation. Real
| property of all kinds is now at the rock
! bottom price-it will not go lower. Within
| three years there will be a big advance
| News.