Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-27
SOME EVIDENCES OF PROSPER
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 "Nben the goldbug papers talk of prosperity, they of course refer to the prosperity of the corporations, trusts and usurers.r-Courier. The prosperity of the country IS very largely based on the prosperity of the corporations, which give em- ployment to the great majority of the wage earners ia the United States. When the corporations, own ing the great manufactures Ct the country are compelled to close down and throw thousands of men out of employment, as they did during the last democratic administration, no one talks much of prosperity. The life blood of the great commercial bodv of the United States flows largely through and from corpors- tions, and 1t IS a sorry day Tor wage earuers when there Is stagnauon of that blood. The hum of factor ies. and the transportation ol their products gives employment to thns..nds upon thousands, and gen eral prosperity is based on the wage earners being employed, and the realization of far prices Tor agri- ,.,,ltural and manufactured pro ducts.
 Our democratic brethren, of the extreme partisan order, have de termiDed to close their eyes to the present prosperous condition of the the country, while the above quota tion shows a disposition to treat the subject in an ironicsl manner. For the benefit of the unpreJudiced We herewith give some statistics given out by the treasury department Tor the month of August, from which ] they can draw their own conclusions:
 The foreign commerce Of the United States in the month of Aug ust. 1899. is the largest in the history l of that mouth. The exports are nearly p per cent higher than those of August Of the phenomenal year of 1898. and B per cent higher than the average of August m the years 1894. 1895 and 1896, while for the eight months of the calendar year ending with august they are the highest in our history. The total exports for the eight months ending with August, 1899, were S792,595,332 against SITS, ,632,2O7 ID the phenom- enal year 1898, S6fi,579.330 in 1887, and SG02, ,29S, ,472 in the great export gear Of 1892
 The importations for August also show a marked increase, being S66'- 7I9.737. against S49,677, ,349 in August last year, and S39,s44,605 in August of 1897. While the details of the August importations are not at hand the details of the July imports which have recently been completed indicate that the growth in import ation IS largely iD the class oi ma terials used by manufacturers and in tropical foodstufTs. In the seven months ending with July the i'm portstion of raw fbers for use m manufacturing amounted to Sl3,- 260,53O, against SlO,4S2, ,32l in the corresponding months of 1898 and S6.032, 1883 in the corresponding months of 1897.
 The growth in exports IS ID both agricultural products and msnufac- lures. The August exPortatlons oi breadstuTs was S25,5S0,352 in 1899 against SI9,9O9.32 m August of 1898 S25,5I3 49l in August of 1897, and SI4,6IS,732 in August of 1896. or provisions the exportatiOn of August 1899, was Si5.5S4755, against SIS, 4S0,9S in August, ls9S; Sl2,4OO,566 in August, ls97, and Sl0,5S9,l52 in ! August, 1896. Mineral oils also show an increase, being for August, 1899, S6. .565, ,OO9. agalust S5,0lO,507 ID August, 1898. S5,69I ,276 in August, 1897, and S5,6ls,276 iu August, 1897.