The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-06-26
not be beaten. Move at once and Sc
cure your supply before the stock on
hand Is gone.
THE KNAFES AT IT AGAIN.
PRODUCING GOOD TIMES BY SAYING
THEY HAVE COME.

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tics of the daily press in their efforts
to convince the people that good times
have returned and everything is boom
buttons the other day in one of the Twin
reports of Dun or Bradstreets' or Henry
Clews, he would be convinced that splen-
| did prosperity reigns everywhere. But
| If he looks at the record of suicides and
bankruptcies he will be taught differ
ent lesson. The hotels are pretty good
criteria of the condition Of things. We
asked the proprietor of one Of these insti-
| lions the other day in one of the Twin
Cities, whether the good times had re-
| turned. as proclaimed by the newspa-
pers. Nonsense" he replied, there is
only one thing that looks as if good times
might yet arrive and that is the good
| crops that are growing"
Dun does not agree with Bradstreet.
Look at the following reports on the
same day:
New York, June Or. G. Dun & CO..
Weekly Review of Trade will say tomor-
row:
From all parts of the United States the
! best advices attainable tell of rising
tide of trade and industry. The volume
of all business is by no means equal to
| that of 1892 as yet, though in some i'm
portant branches larger than in that of
any other year. Two influences of tremen-
dous power contribute to the rise, en-
| couraging crop news and confident re-
plenishing of stocks which have been for
| two years depleted to the utmost.
This is the boom unadulterated.
Now see what Bradstreet says:
New York, June 21.-Bradstreet's to-
| morrow will say:
The feature of the business week is
the customary check to activity in trad
! ing in staple articles of merchandise due
to the near approach Of midsummer with
the accompanying stock taking in some
lines; in addition to this, the only other
note pointing to the Improvement as the
action in prices of cotton, COAL wheat,
| -four corn, oats, pork, and lard from
previous activity and high levels. In
most other directions reports on the
business situation and the outlook are
exceptionally favorable.
This is the boom with notifications.
The times are splendid, it is true, but
there has been fall in prices of cotton,
coal, wheat, flour, corn, oats, pork and
lard;" but "in most other directions re-
ports are favorable" not higher, mark
you, but favorable" What are they?
The list enumerated covers nearly every
thing.
And then Dun says-he seems to be the
champion liar:
Reports from the spring wheat states
and from the Pacific coast are so cheer
| ing that although the loss of winter
wheat was large, those whose estimates
have been most accurate in recent years
now vary in predictions from 430, 900 900
to 470,000,0OO bushels.
| The same day Bradstreet says:
The more active Pacific coast cities are
almost alone in presenting distinct fea-
lures of trade each week. San Francisco
reports that the hot winds have admit
teddy affected the California wheat crop,
which now will not likely exceed 33,OO0,-
900 bushels.
| Reports from the Pacific coast are
Cheering" says Dun, but the hot winds,
says Bradstreet, have reduced Califor-
MAS wheat crop to 100000 bushels.
That is something to cheer" over!
Times are splendid, says Dun, and
| then adds:
Failures for the week have been 22S
in the United Staes, against 214 last year,
and 81 in Canada, against Is last year.
Splendid times, but fourteen more fail
ures in the United States than last year,
and six more in Canada; while last year
was panic year and the bottom out of
everything.
Here are two Minnesota items:
| Duluth, Mimi, June 21.-Alex Nc
Gregor, proprietor Of the Duluth Boiler
Works, assigned this afternoon. The
assets are about $4,000, liabilities tri-
| file more Many men are thrown out of
work by the failure.
Mankato, Mimi, June 21.-Today the
schedule of assets and liabilities of the
Cassidy Packing Company assignment
were filed with the clerk of court. The
| total amount of assets are $50, 1852,
| VIII lldDlIIIlcS duOuuIIu6 " $Of,oIO.OA
| $4,000 of the liabilities is secured by
mortgage St. Paul parties are figured
in the liabilities for $171.31. William
| Schwartz, former manager, is the assig-
nee. From the schedule filed creditors
| will receive about 40 cents ON the dollar
1t is most astonishing that these shall
low knaves, the old party editors, do not
understand that the characterization of
silver cut down prices of commodities
all over the world about 80 per cent, and
| that this universal result cannot be af-
fected by the lies of all the newspapers
in Christendom. AS long as the single
gold standard continues the world must
take it's medicine and you might just as
we'll attempt to abolish the attraction
of gravitation by an act of Minnesota
rotten legislature as to wipe out that 80
per cent fall of prices by the daily press
of the United States all bowling and ly-
| ing together. You can't lift yourself
over the fence by pulling on your boot
straps.
The trouble with the whole world is
the over-supply of assessor even the
great knaves are off their base when they
think they can permanently increase
their own prosperity by destroying the
prosperity of the rest of mankind; and
the little knaves are asses when they