The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-20
PROSPERITY IS
 UNPRECEDENTED
SHORTAGE OF CARS AMONG RAIL. ROADS AND CONSTANT CRY FOR MORE EQUIPMENT IS sUREsT SIGN.

New York, November 1s.-(special)-- The Sun says:
 Day after day week after week and month after month the record of good American business keeps up.
 Cars, cars, give us cars,' is the cry of every railroad traffic manager in the west, the middle west and the far west. Says one: There is a call for three or four cars for every one unloaded." Says another: Empty cars moving in any di rection is an unknown condition" and a third says: "The car orders from day to day show that thousands more cars could be used at all times" and fifth follows with, we have ceased trying to keep pace with steadily gaining shipments of merchandise anw of every known commo- dity." Not corn alone nor wheat alone. nor farm products only. but every known commodity
 More than 100000 cars already ordered this year Cit was 1960OO about fourteen days ago), and the roads have the money to pay for them. Here comes another road. the Northern Pacific with a report of ss5s,OOO gross gain in earnings for oc-
 
 Butte, Mon., copper, gold and silver mines doing well. Twenty-eight million five hundred and seventeen thousand pounds of copper, at Is cents a pound, pro- duced in October, and. including gold. silver and by-prodncts a gross earning for the month of s5,275,O00. showing $61.- 100000 for the year from only one of Uncle Sam's many profitable mining dis tricts Is 1t any wonder that full bank accounts are the rule in lively Butte? Next the Seaboard Air Line 0he south Is prospering as well as the west, and the east prospers by the prosperity of both) comes forward with an order for ten pas- senger locomotives, ten freight locomo- lives, 1000 freight cars of S0OOO pounds | capacity each, eight vestibule coaches, | three blind express cars and five blind mail and baggage cars. A good sized railroad 1 equipment in itself is this addition. | Grain shipments from Chicago and Chi l cago Junction points last week increased | by 19O.O0O bushels, flour increased by 16,371 l barrels over the prior week. Compared with the same week of 1904. the increases were 1,57S,O00 bushels of grain, 29,752 bar rels of flour and S,495 tons of provisions. | Lake shipments the same week included 149,913 barrels of flour, an increase of 19,- | 26S barrels over the preceding week. l It is also good American business that l our railroads last fiscal year returned to the people $1,3SS, GOO for operating ex- penses. out of aggregate gross receipts of $1977,00000 900. By the end of the year our railway earnings will largely exceed the gigantic sum of two thousand millions 1 of gold dollars The roads also gave back 1 to the people s62S 000,0 900 for bond interest and dividends Does not this mean that If railroad rates were cut by legislation, l instead of being governed by the immut- able law of supply and demand, which ultimately fixes all rates and prices, it would simply take the money out of the 1 pockets of railroad wage earners, railroad | supplies manufacturers and their wage ; earners and the investing public, to no ones real benefit
 | It is also the best kind of American bus mess that a company of American capital ists is being organized at Manila to push the sale of fertilizers along the Chnesf coast. The company will also push the | sale of other American products. l Along this line 1t Is also good American 1 business that the American and Philip pine Loan and Trust company, with head quarters at Manila. is being financed by Pittsburg syndicate under West Vir l ginia charter. That's the successful Ger man way of getting foreign. .trade--provide | a bank at the same time the orders are sought for, so that the banking profits are reaped together with the merchandise | profits.
 It is also good, more than good. Ameri- | can business that things are so shaping 1, themselves Cor being shaped) that the peple are coming to the front in the con- | trol of their insurance trade and wage savings-the real profits of our country | as we'll as securing the necessary political l control-freedom from Bosses, political
 
 l the wasting of those savings in reckless expenditures. personal or family. graft. i riotous living and syndicated illegal profits.