Year: 1879




country-Increasing Circulation of


tho Herald.


Every part of the country feels the i'm
pulse of fully revived prosperity. In all
trades, all industries, all legitimate enter
prises there is an activity that promises to
90 beyond any precedent known to the ex-
isting generation. 1t would seem almost
as if there were some compensating prin-
ciple in operation, in virtue of which de-
preston that had extended far beyond the
period to which such troubles are ordinarily
limited is to end in a return of prosperity
as much more vigorous than such returns
are usually as the depression was gloomy.
discouraging and tenacious. The turn
Of the tide in our favor on the
trade with Europe is, of course, the
great feature. Zone million dollars in gold
left this port by to-day's steamers for the
United States" or s'three million dollars
went out to the United States to-day J" tele-
grams in these words or similar ones have
been regular part of the Sunday news for
many weeks. Thus France sends us her
gold, England hers, Germany hers and in
different proportion the smaller countries
also, from Italy to Belgium. It is wonder
iul to find these streams of gold from
Europe pouring into the Golfers of great
gold producing country, and to find 80
suddenly how hardship has benefited
US, how it has restricted the circle
Of our wants and made us SO self
suffcing in manufactures that Europe can
absolutely not pay US for the grain, the
beef the mutton, the pork she must take
from us save in the hard cash she has
stored away. What is to become of Europe
with her gold draining this way, and her
vigorous laboring population driven to
sock our shores as their only hope for
physical well-being. Our resources. as
exhibited in this great commercial strife,
are without limit. The very gold with
which Europe now floods our markets will
20 to stimulate new manufactures that will
increase our Independence of her factories
and to open new grain lands which will SO
largely increase our yield of grain, and
consequently SO cheaper it that in
few years it will be as unprofitn-
ble to raise wheat in Franco or
England as it now is to raise it in our own
Eastern States. How can Europe stand the
rivalry of nation that promises to be
the great cooperative store for the whole
human race, and to put wheat in the
cities of Europe at such o price that the
farmer who lives near it can buy the grain
cheaper than he can pay laborers to raise
the Same on his own land? Our own city,
as the metropolis Of the enormous traffic
that has become the starting point of our
revived prosperity, naturally experiences a
full proportion OF the benefit. Rents are
higher, houses are in demand, the enor-
nous stores are crammed with the daily
concourse Of purchasers, the streets
are thronged. the hotels are prosper
GUS and all places of public amuse-
ment are in the full tidewsy Of fortune.
Things move with even more of rush than
they did in those flush days of speculation
is all solid, all on hard pan, all with gold
beneath it. In these days the HERALD takes
part in the general prosperity, and
its circulation rises constantly into
moro and more important figures. On Sun.
day last We sold one hundred and ffty-four
thousand copies; but part of that sudden
increase was due to the momentary excite
ment of the great pedestrian match. On
Monday we sold one hundred and fifteen
thousand HERALDs, and between this figure
and the higher one our circulation now
regularly moves. Any excitement sends it
up from one hundred and fifteen thousand
to one hundred and twenty, thirty or fifty
thousand copies. The lowest Of these fig
ures, one hundred and fifteen thousand
copies. is fifteen to twenty thousand moro
than we circulated at this time last year,
and is a substantial indication Of increased
prosperity.


Revolutionary simmcrings I'm Ireland.
The gloomy forecast of Irish affairs drawn
by the Pail Nall Gazette may be consciously
overcolored. but the hopeful view of the
London Times has very little to support
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