Show REPORTS OF TRADE I 1 none who has closely followed the reports report of trade I 1 journals can well doubt that the present administration is the causa canso ox 01 our financial depression the first years workings of the mckinley tariff ho eo the trade journals journal sall all reported was the prosperous in the history olour of our country its beneficent results we we ra re unimpaired until after last novem bers election the week before that election I 1 dunns weekly review 4 of trade lepor reported tod ahns aft q g ayen gye in thi i last week before the I 1 T election business las bas continued indeed the volume is fotr beyond any precedent for a sim aim aliar period s t it seema that merchants and manufacturers were ware not at all expecting I 1 0 mhd defeat ot of mr and business sp wenton bonlon as usual so soon sa they learned that the country had i declared prata protection action unconstitutional they bezan began hesitating and a great degree of uncertainty has haaf existed ever since every week the trade y reports mention this and bunns dunns 17 review I 1 ot or last week quoted by our democratic neighbor says I 1 there is a somewhat better tone in because money markets are a 9 little lesi leai airi igent but it cannot lie saida athil avet a vet tia it ai t ILI lucre 11 re is ia any distinct diet improver nt in 1 every direction un I 1 usual m prevails orders are relatively arwill abe the volume olbu sins ia restricted and a waiting policy rules ruled the question tion is ia what are the business men bating for why this un nn 1 usual coi it must be plain iffat that it is ia not the seerman mart law because even the west avest is certain that i that measure will be ba repealed there ii no up certainty therefore tha relating 1 1 to 0 that question the uncertainty is almost the tariff anas tion there are diun hundreds reds who believe will not be abandoned even though the democratic party declared in its platform that such a policy is unconstitutional there thera are I 1 shrewd business men who assert that r democrats are ara afraid to forsake a protective policy for they realize what it has haa done for the prosperity of the country again there thera are hundreds who do nat see how the administration can do anything else but repeal all all protective pro active laws none hone bo however wever 1 are so certain as to the future that they t will drill icik r risk much on it and hence this unusual ann sual conservatism reported sorted by the trade journals there is no other reason that we know of why orders are relatively small 11 and the volume of business restricted money as aa above stated is less stringent agent bothe silver question can not so much be counted on as t the lie cause of the evil we have jast as much money money now in the country as aa we had bad last year when allawas all was prosperous erbus the name laws lawa as to io I 1 silver existed then that exist now the evil dt depreciated silver have not some aoma ii upon po il us with this democratic Democrat io on they have been herd here for years and it if free I 1 co coinage inaco c could be inaugurated today it would not relieve the country of its present uncertainty |