Show BETT BETTER er TIMES AHEAD A NEW york paper talks in the fol holving loy ving eing che cheerful erfur x and reassuring style ayle we have touched bottom and begun to asce ascend iid ild ibe the crisis iso Is o over oven ver ken the wora worst has been tien seen and felp stocks have hive already ilsen risen and are steadily it la Is absurd to suppose that stocks of good roads can stand at tho the fl figures arcs they have nave been sold for with within in the last jast fortnight W when there Is nearly eight hun hundred dred ored millions I 1 I 1 of money in ch cu lation aid and every month ad adds dito to the wealth and population and business of the couil coull country try tny As the panic subsides money will steadily find its way out of its temporary bid hid hiding places C cs into its wonted ehan eban channels nels neis and the an geney pency will cease there bisno is no reason for thinking that the bank of En glands rates will be ral raked cd and probably they will I 1 be lowered very soon boon the commercial and mercantile interests af of the country are arc generally sound there have been but few falin falln failures res and these have shown an excess of assets over liabilities which Is somewhat remarkable the crisis struck the thet iner mercantile cantile cantlie classes classe cia cla ese esc and has rebounded i from their unexpected solidity like a ball fr from oula outa a rock aud and confidence Is already returning the prospects for the whiter winter are arc brightening on cybry every hand this is good news but why not the crisis does not destroy tho the wealth of the country there is is as much money in the country now as before the cri crl crisis nay more for look at the continuous stream of gold from europe bince since the crisis commenced and still that stream flows westward across the atlantic the tho thing that is lacking is confidence with that restored the old stockings would open the multifarious private hoards boards of money would circulate freely again there would be no uncommon scarcity of cash all kind kinds of manufacturing and other businesses would proceed in a lively and enterprising manner and hard times would rapidly disappear but the trouble is not only that there is a lack dack of or confidence there is a cause for this lack of confidence which is pa past t abuse of confidence to recover from the effects of this abuse requires time and this is the worst feature in the whole matter there is good rea sonin the prevalent great corruption unofficial in ln official and business ilfe life for this lack of confidence and the only way out of the difficulty is for nora fora a wider cultivation of this diet duct delicate thur thue r confidence and a determination on tile the part parc of public and others in ili prominent positions to de deserve ervo erac it |