Show THERES A GOOD TIME COMING dr frank crane in N Y globe Is there a good time coming let us not argue nor orate but look at the facts statistics issued as coming from the bankers give us the following items the united states is the richest country in the world the bank deposits in the united states exceed by billions the combined bank deposits of the whole world outside of this country we have more actual cash than any other nation our national wealth at the time of the civil war was about seven billions at present it is two hundred and twenty five billions in a single year we produce by manufacture and agriculture more than the entire national wealth of france En glands wealth is only eighty billions as against our two hundred and twenty five billions of all the wheat in the world we produce 22 per cent of all the oats of the world 35 per cent of all the cotton 60 per cent of all the corn 80 per cent of all the horses 25 per cent of all the cattle 27 per cent of all the hogs 40 per cent and of the worlds dairy products 25 per cent one half of the worlds pig iron is taken from the earth in the U S A fifty per cent of the worlds copper and 60 per cent of the worlds petroleum besides this we produce 25 per cent of the total production of woolens of the earth twenty five per cent of the linens twenty five per cent of the cotton cloth forty five per cent of the paper twenty five per cent of the glass thirty six per cent of the shoes and 50 per cent of the steel products that is to say of the total products of the globe we contribute one quarter 25 per cent of the agricultural supplies over one third 40 per cent of the mineral products and one third 34 per cent of the manufactured goods and we do this having but 5 per cent or one twentieth of the worlds population if we go bankrupt in this situation it can only be by the most egregious folly almost all the bugaboos buga boos when scrutinized disappear we are not going to have a bituminous coal famine when the figures of the geological survey show that for the last seven months we produced more coal tons than during the corresponding period of last year tons anthracite coal production for the first seven months of this year tons amounts to tons more than for the corresponding period of 1919 highways are improving the government state and local having spent this year on roads and bridges and auto trucks are markedly relieving railroads in short hauls the railway situation and car shortage is getting better daily mexican conditions are better than at any time since diaz the secretary of agriculture says that this years crops will be record breaking dun and bradstreet give reassuring reports of general business and banking affairs and beside this our federal reserve banking system can absolutely bar a panic all this is not rhetoric nor campaign matter it is a fact |