The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-17
From Brunswick Board of Trade, 500
Total receipts,

The general certificates for collection
of annual dues have been supplied to all
local boards in membership, free of cost,
to the number off, ,425 this year.
The office of the Bureau of Statistics
of the State Board, at Portland, is now
visited by large number Of tourists en-
tering the state there and seeking infor-
nation to all sections, for the accommo-
dation of which, they are granted free and
welcome access to books, illustrated
guides and pictures, and views of more
than fifty different resort sections there
tables and folders of seventy-fve different
railroad, steamboat and transportation
lines to and from eastern resorts, and the
extensive newspaper files that very many
Of late, have found of great convenience
to obtain information from sections re-
mote from general lines of travel. Very
much the same opportunity / learn, is
of Trade to tourists coming in there for
northern and eastern resorts, the results
of which are of very great value to the
state.
In the way of the business outlook of
our state, need not tell you that the
business depression which has been
abroad all over our country for the past
few years, is gradually clearing away and
giving place to new era of prosperity
been SO favorable for business prosperity
in this country as at the present time
since the year 1880, when very similar
combination of circumstances gave to
business and manufactures a great i'm.
pulse, and that at the present time we
are recovering from a low ebb of prices
and demand, failures in the United States
in August having showed lower aver
age of liabilities than has been noted in
any year since records were kept, and
that the food gates of better times are
gradually approaching in our own state,
and that for Conservative Maine,, 1t would
not be healthy If this approach were too
rapid or too speculative. 1t Is far better
that 1t should be builded upon substantial
foundations, and that it should appeal to
the reason and common sense of our bust
ness men.
What our people need under existing
circumstances is confidence and loyalty;
confidence not only with our merchants
and traders, but with the artisan, the
mechanic and our every industry, remem
bering that confidence is the handspring
OF business. 1t sets the wheels going it
sends capital out to prospect, to develop,
to occupy. 1t swings the miners pick,
1t fires up the engine, it opens the ware
house and brings supplies to the home of
every toiler. The product of the factory
is the thrift of the artisan and mechanic,
anu Ulc1r enfu1 Is Une prosperity OF the
farmer.
The farmer Is likely to have more money
to spend, as we'll as the mechanic. 1t is
the purchasing power of the community
which makes good times. The difference
between activity and depression in bust
ness circles turns upon the point whether
or not the workingman has twenty five
or fifty cents more per day to spend than
he had during times of depression.
We can hardly realize that our popula-
ton has nearly reached 70, QUO, 600, and
that an outlay of $40 per capita more than
last year would bring an added business
to the various enterprises of this country
of $3.50, 600, coo. This $40 would not be a
large sum 30 represent the difference be.
tween depression and activity in connec-
ton with each individual, yet in the ag-
gregate it rolls up to stupendous
amount, that would set the idle wheels
and looms and spindles in motion all
over the country.
The depression in business and in the
price of labor for the past few years, has
not been without some good results. II it
but temporarily arrest the extravaganza
and lavish waste of money that our people
were too hastily rushing on to.
4 Speaker Reed Figures it out that the
direct result of the business depression
has been to lower the cost of the produc-
ton Of all things on an average OF more
than Is per cent. Our mills, manufac
tories and railroads have introduced
economies that have reduced the cost OF