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Show I Gould and MoKluley. Savannah News. No doubt the McKinley bill had a great deal to do with weakening confidence. confi-dence. It Induced importers to import vastly more than they were able to pay for promptly, and hence they became discouraged, and, as Mr. Gould says, they imparted the feeling of discouragement discour-agement to others. And the threatened passage of the force bill unsettled business busi-ness greatly, because in business circles tho belief was entertained that if the bill should become a law, trade relations between the north and south would become, in a measure, strained, and the tens of millions of dollars of northern capital invested in the south would bo jeopardized. |