The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-26
PROSPERITY NOTES

G FROSFEklIY NOTES E .5 E 1IIIETIElraIaIEIGIHIGIGIlI1
 At least there is one item in which Democratic prosperity shows falling off. Bradstreet's reports a decline of 80 per cent. in commercial failure Ha- bilities.
 For six months of 1916 Bradstreet's finds that bank clearings have averag- ed approximately $20,000,0 100000 per month. Can the tall MT. Fairbanks prove that this is less than the 1912 Republican record of $14.000,000,000 per month?
 Against a four-year gain of more than $3.000. 100000. or 39 per cent. in the country can not prosper under lican orators will have to Ego some" to convince the American people that the country can notp rosper under Democratic administration.
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 Bradstreet's building record shows that in the second quarter of 1916 the country invested $266,000,000 in per- manent building Improvements, which is 32 per cent. above last year. This is another hard blow to the Republican idea that prosperity rests upon war. There is only one business record of
 Republican days which Democratic
 prosperity has not demolished, and
 that is the SITS, 100000 of failure lia-
 bilities brought out by Wall Street
 and Republican administration in 1907-'0S-which still stands as the
 worlds panic record.
 The first six months of 1916 show new industrial and financial incorpo-
 rations of $1,S00, 100000. This is 70 record under Republican administra- ton. Moreover, 1t kills the chief Republican campaign slogan, that bus mess fears the approach of peace. l HhA
 There are 1,240,000 tons of steel merchant vessels now building in American shipyards against 270,000
 under Republican administration in 1912; and yet the Republican plat
 form declares that only under Repub- 1 lican subsidy and subventions can Americans build and sail ships. l.. A'SA
 With the eight great Middle West States of the upper Mississippi Valley reporting an increase of $66s,000, ,000. or 30 per cent. in their bank deposits
 since 1912, it will not be easy sailing for the Republican propaganda to prove that Democratic prosperity
 when the Middle West deposit growth ho hot af New England. }9
 After the Hughes-Fairbanks plat
 form has solemnly announced that on- | ly subsidies and subventions produce | merchant navies, it is unkind in the Commerce Department to file a 200 page expert report showing that s5 per cent. of the British merchant ma rine consists of unsubsidized cargo ] carriers, and that the Hamburg-Amer- ican, the great German line, never | received dollar of subsidy. sHs Bradstreet's prosperity index based on bank clearings and values of leading bonds and shares-shows that
 the ratio of the Republican prosperity of 1912 to the Democratic article of | | l24.5 per cent. in favor of the Demo- cratic brand. Can Messrs. Hughes
 and Fairbanks prove that 9.1S is big ger than 11.43? That is their con- tract between now and November. | ssh
 The Wall Street Journal reports that
 securities aggregating "a par value of | $1,452,0OO,000 were admitted to deal I T, prly nolx AHox eyo
 during the first half of 1916. This
 is 80 per cent. of the greatest full tyear record-tfat of 1s12-in Repub- tlican days. And yet the w. s. J. be-
 moans the fact that Wall Street has
 to submit to Democratic administra-
 ton instead of the old Republican
 practice of the Government lowing to Wall Street. t.F