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Show Looking Forward. The pain of recent wounds is too acute to allow very optimistic views being taken as to the outlook for 1908. There is, in fact, rather a disposition dis-position in trade circles to look upon the reverse side of the picture. In addition, there is the knowledge that trade in other countries is quieting down, that a presidential election is impending, that readjustments of wages and of prices are sure to follow fol-low stock and money market convulsions, con-vulsions, and that expenditures for all public and private purposes are likely to be smaller for some time to come. On the other hand, it should not be forgotten that there is a large and very profitable business to be done in this county in it, and that the warnings of the country of the present trouble were so early and so numerous that large accumulations of stocks and goods were avoided. Buying for some time past has been of a healthy character, small and frequent, instead of heavy purchases being the rule. G'ven the lightening of the present pres-ent st'ess in the money markers, a thing which may be reasonably looked look-ed for with the quieting down of trade, though perhaps delayed by necessary heavy borrowing by railroads, rail-roads, a rather quiet business may L? expected until election possibilities become certainties, and the next growing season gives some index as to the crops of 1908. |
