South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-27
PROSPERITY SHOWN
IN TRADE REPORTS
More Men Employed This Year
Than Ever Before in COun-
try'S History.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 27.-One who
reads the newspapers from all paris
of the country, or who reads only
those OF mis- own state or community
can not but be impressed by the mark
ed Improvement in business condl-
tons. In fact, each man In MS own
community, and Indiana especially, Is
face TO face with the presence OF pros
porous times Every HS"sPdPei III
the state shows it.
So we are none of us much sur
prised when Congressman Adair and
others tell Us that the records of the
department of commerce and LABOR
show that during 1915, more goods
have been manufactured in this coun-
try than ever before. more money mas
been paid TO the manufactures. more
men nave Deen employed and more
wages paid than ever before IN the
history of the country. We know that
there were never better crops or bet
ter prices for what the farmers pro-
dUce
The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially
summarizes the situation throughout
the country. saying in part;
Capacity il Rule.
The pressure of enlarged business
during the past week has been very
marked. y e One hundred per
cent capacity is the rule now where
but one year ago a 30 per cent oper-
ating capacity was considered a high
record and an average OF 30 per cent
OF capacity would have been close TO
the average production of the entire
country. The field of expanding and
/ extending business enterprise is now
so vast and so varied that the most
enterprising and assiduous efforts to
/ obtain a complete record of events in
| that direction necessarily fail.
The huge results of our harvests
/ are now moving to markets and these,
/ with the immense outputs from the
mines and the manufacturing districts,
/ are placing a traffic in face of the rail
ways of this country such as they
never before apprOXimated in either
t)nnages or in values. There are many
complaints by shippers as TO scarcity
of cars, delays in deliveries and OF
other annoyances and embarrassments
but patience should be exercised in
these matters and due consideration
| given to the difficulties which the
rapid growth in volume of freights
have placed in the path of those oper-
ating the roads.
New Records Are Set.
Nearly every important line in the
business affairs of the United States is
now above all prior records as TO vol
umes and values of transactions. II
would be impossible TO express this
much stronger in words, and in many
instances figures have become so large
that they now fail to impress as tC
their significance. The entire country
is riding rapidly forward upon tn,
highest of high tidal waves Of pros
perity, and rich and poor alike will b'
benefited by the results now presen
and those that are to come.
There are two limitations upon ou
commercial. industrial and financia
progress, two barriers to our fulles
development, that should be and mus
| be removed This independ
ent nation will permit no denial of it
rights TO freedom of the seas for it
commerce, no limitations of it's right
! to sell and buy from neutral nations
and our shippers must have an Amer
lean merchant marine for the trans
portatiOn of all cOmerce. With tn
barriers to our business removed thi
country will be assured of a centur.
+ of prosperity"