Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15

try is going to the bad; that great in
dustries are shutting down; that the
railways are retrenohing, instead of inn
proving rOadbed and equipment; that
no new factories are being constructed
that thousands Of working people are
idle aud that Republican prosperity is
myth These statements are 80 pal
pably false or so greatly exaggerated
that Intelligent persons are not msled by
them, but there is danger that when the
canards are reiterated by the calamity
howlers a few people who DO not keep
closely in touch with Industrial and com
mercial conditions may be led to believe
them.
Any man or newspaper that deliber-
ately attempts TO create distrust in the
financial or commercial world is little
less than criminal. Some States have
punitOry laws framed for the purpose
OF sending to prison persons who circu-
late untruthful rumors about banks and
trust companies If the man who causes
run on n bank by spreading a false
report is a criminal. is not the man or
newspaper that attempts 10 make politi
cal capital by destroying public conf
dence also criminal? And, by the same
reasoning. Is not the party that permits
or indorses the utteranccs of the calam-
ity bowler and spreader of false rumors
nm enemy Of the law?
What Is Possible.
Suppose the Democratic party won a
victory at the polls through destroying
confidence in commercial aud industrial
circles, would the administration of that
"a huVa hn % H.. l. a
Would not capital. which is always tiinid
III the face Of uncertainty, begin TO hide?
And when capital is distrustful what
hUppensf Industries Ing or close. trade
OF the retail merchant falls off, the Job
her and wholesaler suffer, railway traf-
tic dimiuishes, hundreds of thousands of
wage earners are thrown out of work,
distress becomes general, soup houses
are opened and cities are compelled to
begin charitable works for the idle
No political party that couutenances
the creation of distrust is worthy of the
peoples confidence 1t will he a sorry
day for the country when the calamity
howlers succeed in reversing those heneii-
cent policies which the Republican party
has put into effect aud which have re-
suited in an era of the greatest pros
prity any nation has ever known.
That Industries and business of all
kinds continue to prosper there can be
no doubt. The few strikes in the build
ing and other trades are not indicative of
depressed conditions. Wage earners do
not strike in times of panic or waning
prosperity. Strikes are generally for
higher wages, and no toiler expects an
increase in wages when work is scarce
and thousands of his fellows are idle.
There is ample evidence that prosper
Gus times are still with us. A glance at
the newspapers, Democratic as well as
Republican,. shows that millions of dol
lars are being expended in building new
factories and enlarging old ones, in con
structing new trolley lines and improv-
ing the roadbed and equipment of steam
railways.
More persons are employed now than
ever before. As proof of this statement.
take, for instance, the railways whose
traffic always is reflex of business
conditions generally. The number of en-.
ployes on the pay rolls of the railways
in the United States ON June 80. 1903
was l,3l2,33T. or ti3o per loo miles Of
line. These figures, compared with those
of 1902, show an increase of IL, 222, or
45 per 100 miles of line
summary of dispatches taken from
the Boston Evening Transcript, the
PtttSburg Dispatch and other reputable
newspapers in the last FIVE days il here
given
steon aud Electric Railways.
New York, Two million Is the estimate
of the cost Of the steel rails wanted hv
delivery.
kmsns City. One million dollars is to
be spent by the Chicago, Burlington 4
Quiucy E9''road Company In the develop.
mrut q holdings IN Clay County, No. Up.
rosltc Kansas city,
Jackson Miss. Three hundred and flfty
thousand dollars will be spent by the Coast
Electric Railway In constructing line
from Henderson Point 20 Poiut Cadet
Pittshurg, The Baltimore n Ohio win
station at Baltimore; the Wabash Pitts.
burg Terminal Is erecting a $4,000 freight
house at rittshurg
AlamoEordc y M-Thc III paso 4
Northwestern Railroad l. building fifty resi-.
denccs az AlamoSorlo for employees
Runalo,- Ten large locomotives have
been added 60 the rolling stock ot the Ros.
ton 4 Maine Railroad equipment
Siuton. Work commenced on the
NJ, Louis, Brownsville a Mexico Railroad.
which Is 10 extend through San Patriotic
County
pittshurg. -Pittshurg railroads are In.
creasing their coal and cattle car supply.
The Baltimore \ Ohio is IN the market for
LOCO gondolss and 80 refrigerator ears;
the Wheeling 4 Lake Erie has ordered !, 40
wooden and 600 steel tsrs; the ptttshurc
4 Lake Erie has put into service l.u0o new
steel cars.
Burllugton, Vt.--At Il cost Of S2p0. e>o the
Central Vermont Railway will construct a
branch line from Bethel 10 the newly de-
veloped granite Quarries three miles from
Bethel
Buffalo. Lake shore intends TO re.
sumo feur-traeking the road from Baffalo
to Chicago.
Wichita. Kan.--The Frisco Line is recon.
structlng its track and roadhed between
Wichita and Ellsworth giving employment
To several hundred lRhorers.
Ptttsburg.-Th Cnlon Switch aud Sig.
nal Company reports that the new orders
booked for August exceed any other month
of the year
Chicago Western railroads brought
To ChiCngo last week 5,2tn.Oo0 bushels Of
grsln, showing an Increase of mere than
!, oooO00 bushels over the grain traffic In
the corresponding week last year
New York.--The manufacturers of ma
shine tools report thai there Is decided
Improvement in the demand from the rail |
rvads which are repairing their rolling !
stock
New York. Flight million dollars will be /