The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-05
PROSPERITY IS The ISSUE
Compiled for The Tribune by Walter

Compiled for The Tribune by Walter j.
Ballard.
you do not have to guess what the
Republican party will do. The world
| knows its purposes. 1t has embodied
them in law, and executed them in ad-
| ministration. William Mckinley.
Under Republican policies, ours is
most recuperative country. For July,
owing to extra large payments just after
congress adjourned, we had treasury
i deficit for the month of S7.5OO,OOO but Au-
gust wiped out all but S1,J00.000 of 1t.
The gain was in customs revenues, main
ly on materials for manufacturing pur-
| poses, making more work for our al
ready busy factories
The decrease of $7,5OOOOO last year in
weekly wages in Great Britain is. still
going on, and bids fair to get worse.
Protection pays.
Railroad prosperity is sure indicator.
1901. Gain Over
Year Ending 1900.
June 20. June 80.
1lleaSe l5i.Jt b,oSl
Gross earnings 81 5SS, ,326, O3l SlO1 4Sl .223
We must remember that more than half
of railroad earnings is paid out again
for wages.
"Keepng everastingly at it brings sue
cess" That's Il good Republican prac-
tice
The Pressed Steel Car company has re-
Gently secured orders aggregating S20,-
G0O00O. including 5000 cars for the Penn
sylvania road.
Put all trust-made articles on the free
list" is the Democratic cry. Yes. and
put all American laborers on the idle list
and the starving list like you did IN
1926.
Senator Milard, of Nebraska, is credit
ed with being in favor of the beet sugar
and hai int nd
quence, has been figured on as an anti
| administration man, but he sets all specu-
latiOn at rest by announcing that he is
for Nebraska and Roosevelt, beet sugar
or no beet sugar.
"All the factories are said to be busy
Railroads are having Il larger movement
of merchandise to the agricultural sec
tions than last year. and traffic generally
is fully as heavy as last year. Money is
plenty and cheap. and the West never
had so much prosperity in sight. ."-Sche-
nectady Democrat.
An order for $1,000 eight-horse plows to
be used for breaking up the virgin soil in
South Africa has been received by the
Farquhar agricultural works at York,
Pa This is probably the largest order
ever sent out for this' crop-compeling
implement
1t will be little difficult for the Dem
ocratic orators TO convince the farmers
that they stand in need of Democratic
nostrums when the figures of farm pro-
duction are quoted The census returns
show that the value of farm products in
1860 was $1,000 OO0, 600; in 1890 it was 81, 4OO-
100000 and now the figures issued in 1900
show farm values for 1899 as si739, 600 900.
This Is an increase which compares ia
vorably with that of any industry in the
country.
Speaking of the big crops, SAYS the
ilnI Ia1r In i., I,,l; ~,
wants to be looked at. According to the
state statistician, the yield of wheat, oats
and corn Will exceed the totals of any
previous year and put more money in the
hands of the farmers than any seasons
crop returned them, That places IN
diana in the antl-Bryan, Democratic
column
'rhe secret of American prosperity can
he couched in four words-"They are
working now And they means every
body-farmer and artisan, mechanic and
merchant. the man at the forge and the
man In the field-and they are all inde-
pendent t'-Secretary Shaw.
The Cincinnati Price Current publishes
the folowing New York has recently
overtaken London in volume of financial
transactions and now claims to be the
financial center of the world. Here Is
the comparison of the total clearings of
both cities for the first three months of
the present year,
New York. London
January .....,. $6,929, SSH Si.392. or OIL
February ....... 5,3iS,939,976 40i9, ,9ll ,O35
March .......... 5506,925 i95 1861, So, 100
Totals ..,...sl7, 7S536t.lS2 sl2.3 ,7ii SOi
New York's average daily clearing for
that period was over sll.O00, 900 in excess
of the London average, and for the whole
quarter New York had - per cent. excess
no el IN .,if 4,
the same months of 1897, the New York
clearings gained lG6 per cent. in volume.
while London gained only 50 per cent
The financial center of the world has
cross the Atlantic, and is now located in
New York"
The annual statement for the Southern
Pacific railway shows enormous gross
earnings, the amount in round numbers
reaching about ss3.OOO,OOO, an increase OF
more than s6,ooOO00 over the previous
year.
'rhe Republican party builds; II never