Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-09-14
WHAT BUSINESS MEN SAY.

WHAT BUSINESS MEN SAY.
What the business men of the coun-
try advocate is to be relied upon as
best for the material interests of the
nation. When the nation is prosper
GUS, business men are prosperous, and
vice versa. 1t is interesting to note
what business men think of the cor
ditions this year. From various parts
of the country come such expressions
as these:
Il belong to neither party. l vote
in local and national elections as my
Independent judgment dictates. Ne
braska is prosperous. -Four years ago
the times were very hard. Our farm
ers burned their corr for fuel. Then
it was that Mr.. Bryan argued for free
silver as the only remedy for those ap-
parently hopeless conditions. The
country did not take his remedy, and
yet got we'll. What is the inference?
Mr.. Bryan's remedy was not as much
of a remedy as he thought it. Mr..
Mckinley will be reelected because of
the prosperity now existing. A very
large percentage of the citizens will
pay no attention to free silver, imper-
ialism or anything else than our great
prosperity.-J. A. Smith, Humphrey,
Neb. =
Candy is one of the luxuries.
When times are hard and money scarce
we feel it, l tell you we do. The last
three or four years show a vast in
crease in our business. There has
been improvement each year over the
preceding one, and this year the pros
poets are that business will be better
than it has been for six years. The
general trade throughout the United
States in the last four years has in
creased fully 80 per cent. In some
cases it has doubled, tie increase be-
ing specially noticeable in large estab-
llshments. This business is essen
TALLY an indicator Of the moment.
Supply equals demand. We cannot
store our goods away in barns and
warehouses and wait for the market to
rise or the trade to come to us. In
stead we are controlled by the demands
OF the hour. Take the chocolate trade
alone. Americans are only now be-
ginning to awaken to the nutritive and
delightful qualities of good chocolate
and chocolate candies. Europeans
have been familiar with this for years.
During the past year " two our trade
in this line has increased by bounds
until today half of our customers call
for chocolates. I am a democrat, but
am free to say that while conditions
exist as they do at the present time, it
would be wise to let well enough alone
and make no change.-C. T. Gunther
OF Chicago, ex-alderman, democrat,
and candy manufacturer
The whole situation is expressed in
a sentence. The country is enjoying
a most wonderful period of prosperity.
The country at large, the individual
corporations and the people them
selves have been successful to a de-
gree under the present administration
and the republican party deserves uni
versal support, and what is more to the
point, l believe will have it. The
country is greater than any maj or any
party, and with wise men at the helm,
as there have been during the last four
years, to direct this country of ours.
conditions will continue to improve
and we shall reap the beneft.-C. F.
Hutchinson, of the Commercial Elk
change Bank of Chicago"
Our business has been more pros
porous in the last three years than in
the entire previous history of the COM
pany. This is true not only of Chi
cago, but elsewhere. 1t is chiefly due
to two causes. Not only has the tele-
phone established itself as a necessity
to business and private interests, but
1t IS also owing to the pronounced
prosperity which has been general
throughout the country. AS l said,
the growth of the Chicago company in
these years has been equal to the en-
tire growth before that time. If this
general prosperity, which the country
at large is enjoying, should be checked
or should cease it would undoubtedly
affect the growth of our business
Personally I believe that any material
change in the present policy of gov
eminent would affect all lines of bust.
ness most disastrously. Ours would