Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-03-16
PROSPERITY CONTINUOUS.
Business Under Republican LeEisIa-
tion Is Constantly Inn
proving.

That 1898 was a recordbreaking year
in the domestic and foreign trade of
the United States has been shown so
conclusively that to repeat it now
seems trite and supertiuous. What is
of more Importance at the present time
is the fact that conditions are favorable
to still more remarkable showing in
1899. The New York Herald has done
excellent service to the public in Sc
curing the views of leading business
men and the grounds on which they
rest their confidence as to the immedi-
ate future. 1t is authority for the
statement that the wholesale dealers of
that city, who are in close touch with
all currents of trade, believe that 1899
will be the most prosperous business
year the country has ever known. In
interviews these representatives of the
commercial world base their opinions
on these causes: The ratification of
the peace treaty. The return of busi-
ness confidence, which set in as. soon as
the war with Spain was practically
over. Better times among farmers be-
cause of good crops in 1898.
ht lltICHdIlS lhISNNN h'NhdAC
that as results of these causes the fol-
lowing effects may be enumerated:
Farmers and other classes who have
been spending little for several years
again are spending money freely with the
local merchants.
Merchants who have carried only small
stocks, waiting for affairs TO settle down.
are buying heavily and early. They in
ter I to restore their stocks to the condi-
ti1n in which thew before the DuSl-
ness depression of 1898.
"All classes of buyers who have been in
New York recently are ordering a better
quality of goods than formerly"
The trade improvement noted is not
confined to special sections, but eX-
tends to the entire country. In the
west and south especially, where the
former depression was most severely
felt, there is a marked revival of pros
perity, the orders for goods are more
numerous than ever before, and the
people seem to have plenty of money
and are ready TO spend it freely.
Much is anticipated from the eXpan-
sion of American trade at home and
abroad as a natural result of the war
with Spain, the enlargement of Amer
lean territory, the enhancement of the
national prestige and the new political
importance to which the United States
has attained. In order to reap the full
benefit of the opportunities now before
us, however, there is much work to be
done. William f. King, president of the
Merchants association, who is quoted
by the Herald, puts some of these du-
tieslclearly and forcibly before the pub
lie when he says:
I'VE need the freeSt possible communca-
ton from the interior with the ports
whence the products of interior factories
and farms must be sent to all parts of the
world.
I'VE need steamship lines under the
American flag, owned by American capital
and governed by American laws.
We need business agents for this gov
ernment in all the principal cities of the
world who shall know something about
business and the conditions that foster it
that is to say, we need oonsuls who are
capable business men.
These things, we may depend upon it,
the nation Will look to, but we here in New
York need to look to certain details for
ourselves II we intend to share we
should in this coming tide of prosperity.
The highways of commerce between this
nation and others now pass through this
city. We have got to keep these highways
open and improve them if we want TO keep
the current going through New York.
I'VE must fight for the very best harbor
facilities, and must break down the re-
strictions that now harass the commerce
of this port, the charges of terminal
rings, of dock rings and of warehouse
rings.
I'VE must defend our canal system, the
| great artery upon which the life of our
| commerSe depends against the interests
| that seek to destroy IT.
I'VE must cultivate friendlier relations
| with other cities must assist the great
| manufacturing interests Of the interior in
| obtaining new outlets and, above all, must
| defend the great business and financial in
| terests of this city against the continual
| assaults of ignorant and Venal legislation.
| which otherwise will make it Impossible
! for men with money to continue business
| in this state.
| mo nation was ever so favored by ma
| tural and political conditions as this. No
| city was ever SO favored as the natural
| center of all these beneficial influences as
is this city, but we should see to it that we
| do not throw away the good gifts that for
| tune is showering upon u.s."
| That is programme TO which the
| business men of the nation, of the En-
pire state and of the great metropolis
may we'll address themselves. Fol
lowed with the energy, honesty and
ability which are American character
| istics, it will make not only 1899, but
every succeeding year phenomenal for
| tie volume of our commerce and the
equitable division of its benefits.-Troy
Times.