The advocate., 1897-08-25
Public Opinion.

trade, but that that time has passed
is shown by the frantic efforts she is
making now to lure Southern mer-
chants to her market.
Pittsburg Post: The gold Democracy
OF Georgia are returning to the Demo
cratic fold, and this is getting to be the
case pretty generally In Georgia the
trend may be owing to President Nc
Kinleys preference for COlOred people
for important public Office.
New York World 1t is asserted that
Kansas farmers will clear $lOO,OOO,OOO
on this years crops. The task which
this imposes on Mr.. Dingley Is that OF
convincing them that they will owe the
money to him rather than to the ex-
traOrdinary absence Of drought and
grasshOppers
Baltimore American No better
proof Of the SOuth's fine condition could
be found than the fact that there has
recently been a strong demand for
Southern securities. The SOutherners
are themselves buying largely Of these
bonds and stocks because they begin
to realize the future Of the properties.
New York Times: We observe that
EngIand's denunclation Of her CONNER
cial treaties with Germany and Bel
gium is regarded in some quarters as
a prOteCtionist move, departure from
the policy OF free trade which she
adopted half century ago. 1t is just
the opposite Of that 1t Is an extern
sion OF Tue principle OF freer trade.
1t is a preparation for q regime OF
lower duties at those frontiers where
protective imposts now bar the way to
the admission Of English goods.
John Clark Ridpath, in Arena: BIZ
metalllsts believe in the use Of both
moneys freely and on terms Of perfect
equality; they will be satisfied with
nothing less They know that they are
in the majority, and that they cannot
be ultimately defrauded Of their pur-
pose. They intend to restore our coin
age to what 1t was before the act Of
1878. BY such restoration they pro-
pose to break the corner on gold and to
reduce the exaggerated purchasing
power Of that metal to the normal
standard.
Chicago Tlmes-Herald: Times are
better. The pessimist knows 1t but he
dare not acknowledge it. Prices are
booming, labor long idle is again in
demand at fair wages; crops are bOun-
tiful; farm mortgages are being paid ;
money Is going out into the arteries Of
trade; business Is steadily improving
and the outlook Is brighter now than
II has been before in many years And
against this flood-tide Of prosperity the
professional pessimist Is compelled to
raise his calamity wall. 1t is more
than discOuraging; 1t is eXasperating
almost beyond endurance.
Burlington Hawkeye: POpulism or no
POpulism, 1t is impossible to convince
South DakOtans that change for the
better has not come over the country
Reports from 800 merchants in that
State show that their business for the
first six months Of the present year
has increased from 10 to 100 per cent
over that Of year ago. These state
ments come from POpulists and Re-
publicans alike, and are free from
prejudice. Lumbermen all report an
increase Of trade, and some of them
say the increase has been 800 per cent
Another significant point Is that nearly
all the sales are for cash.
Harper's Weekly: When Mr.. Wana-
maker was Postmaster General he put
\ ON the market three sizes Of postal
cards. Under the rule of succeeding
ofFicials less solicitOus to meet the pub
( lie taste, two Of those sizes have become
obsolete, and only the biggest SUR
wives. The little blue postal card the