Show the philadelphia record reports that railroad earnings last month showed a decrease of as compared with III november only 2 3 out of it a t total otal of 0 reporting companies showed a gain in gross earnings and tile tho decline on oil the total was the life largest that h lias been reached hd in any month since the great railroad strike in july I 1 wa it says this was wag due to a great falling oft off in the wheat movement a decline in livestock live stock shipments is hoods anil and storms in the west anid n nd the prostration ot of business in ili the months before tile the election just so dut but if 1 business was prostrated beffie election cle cllon why did not the result ot of the elect election lon which was on tile the ard 3rd of 0 the month instantly loosen tile the wheels of commerce and set get them going as the record insisted before clec election tion that was all that would be necessary suppose the election had cone the other way how the record would woul I have jumped upon its music box and sung foung to the world that one ot of the first results of 0 the election had been tho the decrease ol of in ili railroad earnings in a single month will those people never set get to tile real cause of 0 the trouble and ifill see the necessity ol of removing ita it |