Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-04-10
IS BACK FROM
EASTERN TRIP
Furniture Dealer Says that
Business Is Rapidly Coming
Back to Normal

Nj. l.. Naquin. accompanied by Mrs.
Naquin, returned Wednesday evening
from trip to the east, where Mr.. Ma
quin went six weeks ago to buy stock
of furniture to replace that destroyed
by fire in the warehouse conflagration
of two months ago. A large and ele-
CANT stock has been purchased and will
be placed on display in their retail
salesrooms, Broad and Mesquite, in a
few days
Business conditions have greatly i'm
proved in the east said Mr.. Naquin
yesterday, ''and it will pot be long
nutil the panic of 1907 has been forgot
ten. Work in most of the industries
has been resumed with normal forces
and money for all kinds of legitimate
enterprises seems to be plentiful. Fur
niture manufacturers informed me that
orders are pouring in for the better
grade of goods from all over the coun-
try, but more especially from the west,
where the financial furry was but lit
tie felt. As result of my observations
and from what information | could gath
err, | think we will have no more finan-
cial disturbances and with the national
election over, the country will enjoy
higher degree of prosperity than ever
before, and of more lasting character.
"Politics in the eastl
"Well politics don t interest me very
much. In number of places | visited,
municipal and local campaigns were in
progress, but there was little doing
along national lines Taft s candidacy
is favorably considered in Republican
localities most everywhere west of the
Mississippi river, but the further you go
east the more opposition you encounter.
/ believe that if Taft does not receive
the nomination on the first ballot, there
will be stampede to Roosevelt. John
son of Minnesota is gaining strength, as,
Democratic candidate. The opinion
seems to prevail among eastern Demo
Gratis, who arc opposed 10 both Bryan
and johnson, that il johnson can de-.
velop sufficient strength to tie up Bryan
there will be some hope of nominating
what the eastern fellows see fit to term
a conservative candidate, who they
claim will sweep the country, and will
put Roosevelt, Bryan, Taft and johnson
in the Populist class of calamity howl
ers and radical reformers. Eastern
Democrats lean toward man of Gro
yer Cleveland s caliber and conservative
eastern Republicans are casting about
for second William Mckinley. Men
of this type would receive the united
support of the moneyed and industrial
interests.
CATER completing. my business en-
gagements in the east journeyed down
into Dixieland and spent four days
among the scenes of my boyhood in
and around New Orleans. Business con-
ditions in the southland have greatly
improved during the past few weeks
and cotton growers and sugar planters
are very hopeful. Coming out of this
bustling, busy mining camp, and the
rushing centers of commerce and indus
try in the middle west, Louisiana pos
sessed the quiet of a graveyard. OF
course, it was different in the big gulf
metropolis-that is gay and lively at
all times, but the interior of the Creole
state is slightly prosaic. 1t was my first
visit to Louisiana for twenty-seven
years, and, to be frank, that section Of
the country hasn't made much prog
ress. Many-yes, most of the old build
ings are still standing there just as they
were when | was a boy. | didn't find
the change that | expected. They take
things slow and easy in the south. Not
much commot;on or excitement, and en-
terprise has different meaning down
there. 1t would take something more
than startling to disturb the equanimity
of the average southerner The day
before / left my old southern home, /
was strolling along marshy stretch of
ground bordering on shallow, unsani
tary lake. In front of cabin built
on the edge of this lake sat an old
darkey. Playing on the sands close to
the water s edge were dozen or more
little piekaninnies, while great alliga
tors, with their monstrous mouths open,
splashed about in the muddy waters in
close proximity to the little
black babies.
90 Uncle, said /, aren't you afraid !
that the gators will gobble up some of
your youngstersl'
"The old man pulled at his cob pipe
leisurely, looked complaeently out over
what considered dangerous situation,
and then slowly replied:
Massa Naquin, | been liben here for
more N twenty-seben years, an durin
all dat time the gators neber caught
more n six OBJ my children.
"That was all The old man was
Only six times during his
whole earthly career had he been com
PEELED to bestir himself, if he did on the
occasions named. The same spirit--the
same lack of energy-the same indiffer.
ence to ngs--characterizes
of the people of the state