Wages Are Going Up

A gratifying evidence of the lmproved conöition of business is afforded by the fact that an increase in the wages of operatives is reported in nearIy all the important manufacturing centers in New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other states. The advance in some cases is as rauch as twenty per cent., and in none is it below six peí cent. These advances appear to have been voluntarily made in every instance. Such a fact goes to show a restoration of confldence between employers and employés, and justifies the belief that industrial relations are gradually being adjusted to a Standard of justice and fair play. There is every ground to believe that business generally will frorn tWs tbne forward show steady Improvemsnt, and that the produeing classe3 will not again bereduced to the extremities of the last year or two, unless the persistent agitation ot the silver question shall opérate to repress intelligent and generous enterprise.