The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-10
BETTER Times Coming.

We hope the time is close at hand when
there will be no excuse for calamity howl
ing, when there will be no political cap
ital in saying that there has been mo re-
turn of prosperity and when everybody
anxious for work will have no difficulty in
finding something to do. We have be-
lieved for sometime that there has been
a steady improvement in nearly all kinds
. of business and have not hesitated to say
So The Improvement is not due to any
thing the Republican party has done, but
simply to good crops and the gradual re-
turn of confidence in the monetary stu
alton.
The Constitution of Atlanta publishes an
interview with Mr.. Samuel NJ. Inman of
that city on the condition of the country
which is encouraging. Mr.. Inman has
just returned from an extended trip, dur
ing which he was careful to observe the
prevailing business conditions. The Con-
stitution loaded the interview and print
ed 1t on its editorial page. 1t is fair to
presume, therefore, that it indorses Mr..
Inmans views, and has no sympathy with
those politicians who say there has been
ually cry Calamity
In his interview Mr.. Inman among 9TH
er things, said:
Nearly every Southern city l
have been in is growing and developing
The clearing house returns show a great
volume of business and railroad earnings
are larger. In many sections of the South
and in some sections of Georgia, there is
springing up an active demand for farm
lands at prices much in advance of prices
a couple of years ago Nearly all the cor
porate interests know of seem to have
had a fairly good year and earned a rea-
sonaby good interest on capital They
could not have done this unless there had
been to some extent some Improvement
In the condition of the country at large
AS to city real estate l do not believe we
Will have for long time, If ever, prices
which prevailed when the Sherman law
was in operation. Injection of about $780,
OoOOO year of silver into the currency
of the country naturally produced some
imitation and inflated values. The man
who sits down now and expects to re-
ahze the prices obtained then except in
special cases, is likely to be disappointed:
but there will come time, and think il
is coming very soon, when real estate will
sell for as much as Ii is worth When
this time does come there will be a grad
nal liquidating and balancing upon the
pdib VI many VINO were greatly
tended when the depression began and
upon whom the nightmare of the past
few years has rested most dstressingly
Il am on record about the time the de-
preston began as stating that / could not
see much chance of Improvement for a
long time. / am willing to go on record
now in the belief that the worst is over
and that we will soon be enjoying better
times"
Mr.. Inman says he finds evidences of
great Improvement in the West and por-
lions of the East and that the South is
better off, Notwithstanding the low price
of cotton, than when the price of cotton
was low three years ago. There has of
course, been decided advance in the
prices Of other staple products of the
South. The interview. coming from So
careful an observer, will not be without
a beneficial effect