The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22
CONFIDENCE AND PROSPERITY.

East and the West, 1t will catch step to the mark of march of progress. The time of financial fear has passed; the present is a time for confidence, not for fear or over caution. The fear en- tertained by many business men in the high water days of prosperity. just be- fore the financial storm broke, a little more than year ago was justified. In those days of over speculation and over-valuation, when radicalism ruled in State ana National Government. there was a call for fear and for over caution. But the same men who went slow in the days, just before the panic. are now the men who feel that their feet are on firm ground and they are going forward with confidence.
 An election year has ever been disturber of business confidence. But that is behind us now. The President elect took the opportunity of his first public uttsrance to declare that he owed his election to the business men of the couAtry and that he proposed to give them every consideration that their business justified. The leaders of business and finance who had reasons to believe that under the Roosevelt administration attempts were being made to outlaw them, took heart af- ter the election and with the frank confidence inspiring address of the President they went forward to do their part towards restoring conf dence throughout the country.
 The telegraphie dispatches bring the comforting assurances that B. H liar riman for his allied railroad inter- esta has ordered s34o,00o.ooo worth of railroad material. Since the election Is passed and gone. no daily paper has appeared but it carried the informa- ton that some mill or manufacturing plant which had shut down since the panic of last year would now open and give its employees werk and pay. The National Association of Manufacturers, which numbers more than 1000 mem bers. announces that the plants, which would be opened by members of that Association bsfere the first of Janu- ary would give mere than 5o0.ooo men employment.
 The sentiment which prevails in business now Is tho best and soundest since the panic of 1907.
 Alabama and the South should. in- spired by confidence, assume their places in the front rank of Prosper ity's march. The South should join in the movement in its ascendency and at its inception, rather than wait un- til other sections were we'll starred and had the swing. No longer is there any occasion for fear. Within
 the past week the announcement is
 made that the Alabama Car Service
 Association had handled for the month
 of October 6e,33s cars for the increas-
 ed railroad business of Alabama. This
 increase shows that the freight move-
 ment Is assuming the magnificent pro-
 portions that characterized 1t in the
 months before the panic. The big
 freight movement is but the prelimi-
 nary indication of prosperity's tri-
 umphant advance through the South.
 Announcement is made that the two
 years crop of the Burley tobacco
 growers of Kentucky has been
 sold and by the sale sum
 between $12oOOoOc and s2O,ooo. oOO
 will be passed over to the to- bacco growers. It means too. the end of night riding. The South generally
 has had one of it's best crop years There has been but one drawback the price of cotton has not been al high as it should have been. But i should be remembered that every oth' CT crop, corn, wheat. potatoes. vege tables of every kind has been excel lent And while cotton has not beer
 grade, because of the splendid weath CT of the harvest season. has been thu best of recent years.
 ? In Montgomery alone there are helt 3 4o, 900 bales of cotton, for a rise in tn 8 market. This represents a stored cap a ital of approximately $2.OOo.o0 ant e that for one city This alone shoul' = give business assurance and commer @ cial confidence. It might be said tha f the mud sills of business are nor 7 firmly fixed than they have been fl }, years notwithstanding the feverisl 9 prosperity that presaged a year az, :, the coming of the financial storm. v The time for fear and cArping i = passed. The time for confidence ant : assurance is at hand. Each man il U U his own business should go forwar, 0 firmly and confidently. Prosperit!
 asks nothing else-wahts nothing else The general conditions are excellent y The individual must do his part. Ther 8 is no longer occasion to hide out none. d and be afraid. It Is the day for pros l perity's return.