The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-11-25
EDITORIAL COLUMN
Prosperity; What Is It? Has
It Come?

AoJS " AAeso - 49,
It Come?
The building of the new railroads
has already brought nearly 100000 in
cold cash into Crawford county. Does
it not look as if there was plenty of cash
to do business with? Does it look as if
the gold standard had blighted the in
dustries of the country? Or does it
look as if the return of confidence in
our monetary system had stimulated
the activity of capital, had opened up
the flood gates of commerce and
had brought prosperity to all who have
the brains and the industry to take adj
vantage of the situation?
The activity among railroad interests
is but one phase of the business revival
that is extending to every branch of iu-
dustry and trade. Our free silver
friends have been urging US to bring
on our prosperity and we tell them it is
coming. that its advance guard is al
ready here. There are none so blind
as those who will not see. Prosperity
does not mean that those who toll or
spin not shall have floods of gold pour
ed into their lap. it means that oppor-
tunities will be offered and that those
who have TIE brains and the will to
grasp them VIII have environments
favorable u success Prosperity dos
not mean that the law of supply and
demand shall be abrogated, it does not
imply thai all will succeed We ask
our populis5 friends ii they do not feel
the quickening pulse beat of returning
activity We ask them if they are not
building hopefully on the future? We
ask them if the conditions do not APP
pear favorable for their own individual
success? Stability is the greatest fac
tor in business. The railroad manager,
the business man. the farmer must
know that that VIII CHI he sows that also
will he reap He must know that the
capital he invests will be repaid to him
in money equally as good. Otherwise
he will hoard what he has Money
boarded is money gone out of circula-
ton. AS far as the business world is
concerned it is so much money demone-
tized. The republican party may or
may not have demonetized silver, but
the free silver scare demonetized every
dollar in the United States which was
not actually needed for the necessities
of life. The return of confidence in
the stability of our currency has re-
monetized that money. That is it has
brought it from its hiding places and
turned it into the channels of trade,
where you and can get at 1T. The
total amount of our currency increases
every year, but the increase in any one
or two years is not enough to be felt
throughout the nation. There was
then practically as much money i'm ex-
istence in 1898 and 1894 and 1895 as
there has been in the past two years.
But have you not felt the difference?
Can you not get money at per cent
now? Is there not reader market
for your produce and for your labor
than there was three or four years ago?
Merchants, are not the people buying a
better grade of goods now than they
did during the silver scare? Answer
these questions to yourself honestly and
without thought of your former parti-
sanship, and then if you have not al
ready done so add a little prayer of
thanksgiving, that Mckinley is presi-
dent, that you have sound and stable
currency with which to do business,
and that the Lord who watches over
our nation gave its people the wisdom
and the strength and the honesty to
put aside the temptation of dishonest
currency and to stay by the only policy
which can or ought to win.