Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
PROSPERITY CALLED
FROM EXILE BY TAFT
Election of Ohioan Gives AS
surance of Good Times.
RESPONSE IS IMMEDIATE
Mills Start Up, Men Go to Work and
Goods Are Ordered.
BUILDING OPERATIONS 60 ON
Contracts Are Carried Out-All
Over Nation Comes Evidence of
Sudden Industrial Activity.

headlong flight beyond the borders of the
United States, have faced about and are
marching. quick-step. this way once
more.
The invasion will be peaceful There
will be no battles, no sieges. There
storm.
The country is only too ready for the
rule of good times that has reigned SO
we'll and so long. Indeed. the country
offers to the returning hosts. it said. its
moral strength. its renewed optimism.
its reawakened belief in the future. its
limitless resources. its industrial REIN
forcements. and more important perhaps
than all else, its newly elected field mar
shall, William Howard Taft. for the post
of comma nder- in chief
This is the Prosperity Edition of The
Star. published upon the passing of a ma
tional crisis. and to fix the wandering at
tention of those who. through DISPOSE
ton or personal misadventure. have failed
to note the suns rays through the mist
follows the storm.
Hard Times Come No More.
What matters 1t, II. afar ever yonder.
where the rim of the sky-bowl clamps
the earth. the destructive lightning of
panic still f1ickers in the racing cloud
banks and the thunders of past disaster
rattle and rumble in the little remaining
patch of gloom. The storm is passing
aye, has passed-and the earth Is the
fresher for it.
Things will grow to harvest. And the
harvest will be rich, whether the seed
sown be grain of the earth or renewed
confidence of man.
But a little while ago and there was
no one thing upon which the hope of
a people could be builded. banks, trust
companies, allied fiduciary institutions for
the care of the public's wealth either had
crushed to ruins or seemed to totter to
their fall.
Money, at once blessing and curse of
nation and of individual. was hard to
obtain and harder still to hold. Manu-
facturies had closed their doors, bust
ness houses had reduced their forces.
work was scarce. Muscle and Drawn of
the laboring classes emerged, unhappily
and unhealthfully. from the sweat
streaked profit of their accustomed gloom
Fires died in furnace and on hearth.
countless chimneys stared cold and
smokeless at the shrouded sky. where
hung, replacing the coal-smoke curtain of
more prosperous days, an acrid. pungent
pail. the incense of destruction from mil
lions of acres of consuming woodland,
flaming unchecked upon the hapless
earth. cursed by bitter drouth plague
like and prolonged.
Then came the before-election time,
when conservatism retires within itself
and the ledger Of future business. planned
and in prospect. becomes dusty from dis
use. The spellbinder was abroad in the
land. with guileless tone and clacking
tongue. And there were many. with
frightened belt and furrowed brow.
that hung upon his words with an in
tentness that threw. or seemed to throw.
some doubt upon the final issue.
And It's All Right Now.
But it seems, in truth, there was no
doubt of any sort at all. For on cleo
ton day the voters of the United States.
thinking of the rosy past. making the
best of the pinching present. undismayed
by the spellbinder's threatened future,
went to the polls and declared. in over
whelming majority, for the tried policies
of republicanism as opposed to the in
tangible and theoretical offerings of the
democracy.
Only a few days have elapsed since
then. Already they have reason to re-
jcice. From all over this broad land of
ours, from east and west and north, and
x..ftL boz
tary politics showed more weakness this
year than ever before. come reports of
improved conditions.
Factory doors are swinging on their
hinges. Workmen are streaming in
happy, care-free, already forgetful of the
Ieanness of the panic days. Orders for
present and for future need are pouring in
on those who have to sell from those who
want to buy.
Credit is improving. Money is circulat-
ing. Investments are in the making. En-
terprises are being planned. Big achieve
ments are in the air.
And all over the country there is devel-
opins a rapid. satisfying return to the
normal OF the nation.
The press agents Of national prosperity
are all busy too. One has estimated
that three-quarters of a million men
will have returned to work by the first OF
the new year. Another says that soon
thereafter even this figure will be put
in the shade.
And everywhere in the country in the
cities. on the farms. in the towns. here:
there and everywhere. there will be all
kinds of work for all kinds of men.
All agree that the return Of prosperity
will be rapid at first and then will settle
down to a steady, satisfactory. onward
advance. Until the nation comes upon
days Of plenty that will make even the
high water mark Of recent years dwindle
into insignificance by comparison.
Taft's Election Restores Confidence.
All seem to feel that the election to the
eyed, ciean-souled son. has been the one
important thing that has brought about
his all-great result.
The country was ready for a return to
the normal. under normal executive and
governmental control. But still it was
shaky. hesitant, backward. needing the
impetus of conservative triumph to
start conditions on the upward trend once
agreed. has been furnished by the cleo
ton of Taft.
The day after the result was definite
IN known, q perfect flood of buying or
ders, held up pending decision by the
voters Of the United States poured into
the various industrial marts from coast
TO coast and gulf to northern border
More are coming. more will come
Buildings. constructed only on paper,
will soon have substance and take shape
in iron and stone and wood and brick
Commercial campaigns. planned before
the panic, and dormant since, are being
initiated.
Real estate an unrealizable quantity
during the months Of public nervousness.