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Show R AT LAST AN ADMISSION. Hi Henry Clews is an authority on Wall Street He is a banker, Hf a writer and a keen thinker. He voices the sentiments of the men H of wealth. In his last weekly letter, he makes the following ac- H. knowlcdgrnent : H "Progrcssiveism is established; not the kind that tears dovn H and destroys, but the kind that builds up and establishes institu- H tions more in line with the interests and will of the people than H has been' the custom in the era which is now passing away. H "Capital has been suffering for its past misdeeds. The pen- H alty has been severe. H MIn the future better standards of business conduct will be K imperatively necessary, and so long as our great financial leaders H nfyhtffain a closer regard for public welfare they are likely to be A. fcs subject to the attacks of popular disapproval. Kltf "In commercial circles more atteution is paid to crop3 than Ht'j politics. We have had another week of favorable growing weather H I in nearly all parts of the country, and the agricultural outlook has H j been growing steadily better for the last three or fou- weks. The Hii confidence thus imparted will tend to encourage merchants to stock H! up for a good fall trade, which is sure to follow another profitable Hll harvest Our fruit crop is large. So, too, is the hay crop, and (prices are high. "Both cotton and corn are late, but their condition is other- HPj wise good and with a week or two of warm weather a large yield H' is almost inevitable." H So capital has suffered for itssins and business hereafter is j to be on a higher plane of honesty aud fair dealing! H', For thirty years capital and the defenders of capital have de- Ht' nied that there were wrongs to be righted. Every Standpat paper H in the United States has denounced, as agitators and demagogues, H those who have protested against the injustices inflicted on the H people by the "big interests." but finally, when the demand for HJ honesty has grown to irresistible proportions, the Standpatters, and H their friends, the money kings, admit they have condoned serious bbbbbbV wroncrs and nrotected tho wrone-doers. but declare that the offend- BBBBBBBII H ing8 of the past are to be discontinued and a new order of things H y established. . The men who have waged the contest for honesty still carry R the odium of the false accusations of the nasty plutocratic press and H continue to be held up to ridicule because they have fought in the K cause of righteousness, and the hirelings of the rich assume a su- BBaaaaaaeMMBSaBW'' ' - - - perioritv when discussing the reformers, but the people are' be-ginning be-ginning lo understand the meaning of all tins ridicule heaped on the leaders of clean government The day has passed when honest men espousing principle and laboring for equal rights, can be driven from their position by the lampoouery and vilification of the sub- sidized press. The fight is on for better conditions and the calumniators in the emplov of the trusts and other combinations of special privilege privi-lege can not prevail against the advocates of l'rogressivcism. |