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Show oo SCARE IS OVER AND BUSINESS IMPROVES The Financial World of Xew York declares the scare is over and at last business is beginning to mend. That journal says "He must be distinctly oblivious of the signs of the times who is unable to discern what has amounted almost to an emphatic reversal of sentiment i in business and financial circles since the new year opened; the sentiment sen-timent is now broadly optimistic. Everywhere one goes In flnancialdom ho is able to feel an almost indefinable inde-finable quickening and that electrical thrill which accompany a real awakening. awak-ening. Bankers and their clients no longer speak to each other in whispers whis-pers and wonder what fresh disaster is coming nexL but they meet in the broad light of day and exchange hearty greetings and comment in the most matter of fact way over the latest dispatches from Washington, The truth Is. the scare is over. It may be that men who are henceforward hencefor-ward caught violating the anti-trust laws will go to prison, and It may be that we shall see some fine displays dis-plays of Congressional oratory wnen such legislation, and new laws putting put-ting the ban on Interlocking directorates direc-torates go through, and yet there is no alarm when the news dispatches tell all about It. The reason lies in the fact that a truce, or peace, or whatever It may be called. ha3 been adopted both at Washington and among the public whereby the vigorous vigor-ous baiting of corporations is to cease and a 'come. -let-us reason-together' policy has been substituted." oo |