Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-29
FREE TRADE Is OUT
Protected Producers Cannot
Fill Their Orders
ARGUMENTS FOR DEMOCRATS
A Few Figures That VIII Bother Grover >
Supporters -UnPsececentet Prosper
NY Thfoughou the Country.

There Is car famine from filtsburg
10 The Rocky mountains. fnis single
fact shows the best and the worst Of
business. The west Is marketing enoF-
nous crops, probably exceeding Ia QuSn-
uty All Official or unofficial estimates,
but Europe IS buying bat moderately,
the demands of the eastern markets
are greater than usual. aud all tue ele-
yators both east and west are crammed
with gram aud all the yards are full Of
loaded cars. Distribution Of manutac-
tured products Is larger than II ever
has been, and manufacturers are
crowded with orders, while the APP
pToach OF the presidential election
does not interfere with legitimate trade.
Wheat Is selling at the lowest price
ever known at New York. Many years
ago IL touched 20 cents III one day, but
the quotation Is now = cents Tor Octo-
Der delivery. Receipts at western ports
have been $500, 900 bushels IN four
days, aud more than $500 900 bushels
n four weeks, while the exports from
Atlantic ports IN four days nave been
100, 600 bushels. The price here has
declined l. cents and the opinion
steadily galns ground thatah estimates
OF the crop have been below the truth.
Corn Crop insumoiens.
Corn has advanced ! cents and oats
| cent, Notwithstanding especially
favorable weather Tor the farmers IN
the states where corn has not vet been
gathered. The belief Is that the yield
of corn, though larger than was re-
Gently expected, will not quite equal
the years demands. Oil has declined
three-fourths of cent while coffee
has risen an eighth. But the price OF
cotton Is the same as week ago. after
large sales and considerable fuctua-
tons the receipts being comparatively
small, while reports of frosts IN some
southern states helped the specu ators
for All advance.
At Boston money is firm and collec-
tons satisfactory. trade IN dry goods
being excellent and PRINT cloths and
some grades OF cotton goods having
advanced. Wooden manufacturers are
busy with prices unchanged, and the
saoe manufacturer Is pressed with
orders extending beyond the usual
season. At Philadelphia the iron
trade improves, but paints and glass
are less active. Large orders are noted
for boots and shoes, and trade IN
liquors and tobacco is good. Groceries
are very active, though collections IN
that branch are siow. Trade In dry
goods is larger than usual, the demand
for worsted being satisfactory, and car
pet and knit goods being fairly well
employed. Business at Baltimore Is
larger than last year and money easy.
Jump IN prices OF soft steel IS seen at
Plttsburg, but tue glass trade Is not III
good condition.
Large Increases.
At Cincinnati whisky is strong, the
demand increasing, and the medium
Of the lower grades OF tobacco are
strong. General trade ls good at Cleve-
land. Rolled iron ls III active demand
and prices tend upward III increasing
orders. At Indianapolis trade Is un-
usually good, and at Detroit active,
with money in fair demand.
The celebration at Chicago has re-
duced business IN some lines, but re-
ceipts of corn increased largely, of
wheat As per cent, of Hour and cheese
20 per cent. and of butter 10 per cent.
IN comparison with last year, while
some increase is seen in cured meats,
sheep and seeds, but decrease in oats,
rye, barley. dressed beef, cattle and
| hogs.
At Milwaukee trade is larger than
| last year. and at 81. Paul good, though
| collections are only fair. but at Mime
| appolis wheat receipts are 1000. 900
| bushels. and the lumber trade IS excel
| lent. Business at st. Louis is strln-
gent except In winter clothing aud
wooden goods, grain receipts being re-
| markably large. and at Kansas
City receipts of cattle and hogs are
| heavy, though the car blockade checks
transactions there, as At other western
points.
AT Omaha trade ls heavy in grocer
les, in dry goods and hardware. and at
| Denver good IN all lines. At Little
Rock the outlook isgloomy and steady.
| At Memphis, though below the normal
average, business Is fair; at Nashville
somewhat quiet.
| Cannot supply the Demand.
At New Orleans, though II il not the
season for especial activity in boots and
shoes, 1t IA stated that not Tor years mas
there been such a demand. Manutac-
! turer's OF womons shoes are praCtl-
calIy being driven to their utmost ca
capacity. Shipments tor the week
have been 10000 cases, against $4,000
| last year. The demand for paper Is so
large that prices of tine quality nave
Tsen / cent aud book paper from to
/ / cents. with prospects OF further al
vance on account OF the scarcity OF
/ foreign rags.
/ Copper - more steady st III cents,
sut tan unchanged, while m coal q
/ heavy cutting OF prices isrspogted ard
no change al the schedule has been
made. although scarcity OF ears limits
| the delivery OF the bItuminous coal.
/ Exports of domestic products continue
4 much below last years IN value. as is
l ustursl, the decrease AZ New York for
four weeks being about 20 per cent.
Textile manufacturers are bu-y as
usual. with uo md cations ct decfcas,
u tue demand, PRINT cloths aud some
grades ol cotton goods having al
+ yancsd. Structural ron $ 30 great de-
maud. and sheets are very active -
wei "a plates bat bar - odfrateIv
active and rails remarkably dull
/ stock of p'E IRON srs snr.nslnE and
prices hrmer. southern prvdUCf- hnd.
( lng .ess ocCsson "a crowd down tfe
+ market for the dispose Of their FRO
ducts.
D~cress~ - Fsiinres
Imports continue remarkably large
sud treasury rsce.st are 50 heavy tasi
Z fas stock nf c.lt increased ~ .nH a.I