The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-28

pering Business conditions in Texas are
largely Influenced BIZ the price of cotton
and the size of the crop During the past
year cotton has gone above S15 cents and
has averaged over cents. AS conditions
are now this beats the old-time "ten-cent
cotton" that used to be talked of so much.
Mr.. E. L. Pretorius. of the st. Louis
westliche-Post, said:
Business conditions in Missouri are whole
some, and the outlook is very bright.
While our paper is opposed to the expan-
sion policy of the administration, II VIII,
nevertheless, support Mr.. Mckinley Tor re-
election.
Mr.. A. J. Akin, of the Milwaukee Even
ing Wisconsin, regrets that his city did not
get the Bryan convention ard expressed
the opinion that at least 80 per cent. of
the voters in wisconsin who voted for Nc
Kinley in 1896 will do so in 1900. OF bust
ness he said:
Business is excellent. Milwaukee is es-
sentially a manufacturing city, and all the
manufacturers are doing better than ever
before. For the size of the city its in
oustries in iron, tin and woolen products
are the largest in the country.
Mr.. McClennan, of the Topeka State
Journal, was very emphatic regarding the
conditions in Kansas, saying:
So far as business conditions are con-
cerned. Kansas was never in so excellent
state as she is to-day. Our farmers have
practically all paid off the mortgages on
their FARMS and most of them have money
to lend. All the newspapers of the State
are enjoying the general prosperity.
Mr.. F. X. Misch. of the San Francisco
Bulletin, declared that:
Business has seldom been in as prosper
Gus condition in San Francisco as at the
present time. Newspapers and all things
else are making money. There is a ready
market for all kinds of labor, and no one
who really wishes to work need remain
idle. Expansion has opened up before the
people of the Pacific coast wonderful
vista OF commercial prosperity. and all Of
US out there are solidly in favor Of the
doctrine.
The foregoing expressions are not Sc
lected because they are more favorable
than others, but because they are made by
newspaper men in every section of the
country. Every expression regarding the
business condition is in harmony with
those quoted, and equally as confident and
optimistic. Indeed. 1t may be doubted If
ever there has been a season Of so general
prosperity all over the United States as
that which these newspaper men report
from all parts of the country. 1t is so gen.
eral and genuine that the men of the oppo-
sition press do not hesitate to speak of the
prosperity in their localities. Who would
have predicted in October, 1896, when par
alysis extended to every industry, that in
the brief period that has elapsed since that
date the representative of a Democratic
paper like the Cleveland PIain-Dealer
would say that "our labor Is fully en-
Four years ago, when the wall of calamity
came from Kansas that its farmers were
hopelessly burdened with mortgages, who
would have dreamed that four years later
the editor of silver paper would be able
to declare, in New York, that business
conditions were never so excellent in Kan.
| sas as to-day" and that 'its farmers have
practically all paid off the mortgages on
| their farms and most of them have money
| to lend?" There has never been so marvel
Gus change in the history of this or any
| other country as has taken place during
| the four years. 1t may be added that if the
Bryan politicians fail to take into account
| the effect of these conditions upon the
| elections next November. they are reserv.
| Ing painful surprise Tor themselves. Gen.
| eral prosperity is a vastly more potential
factor in the pending campaign than any
| question affecting the status of the Philip.
pines.