Prosperity and Reasons for Thanksgiving
It is indeed cheering to hear some other cry than that of "hard times." The Advance, contains the following: "Never did this country have greater reasons for thankfulness and hope, in view of the evidence of temporal prosperity than now. The prospect now is that the wheat harvest of the West and North-west will prove to be the best and largest ever gathered. The maturing corn crop also has never before been so abundant. Gold, in large quantities is flowing from Europe to America. Within one week there was received in New York over four million dollars in gold. Every department of business and of trade feels the stir of the new times. As for Chicago, its streets never were so filled with the roaring throngs and tides of business. If now the farmers, in harvesting and marketing their bountiful crops get no set-back, we shall all have occasion to anticipate and repeat thanksgiving day every morning!"