Show IN THE MATTER OF FAILURES ftc note that the Democratic organ refers again to the number qf failures reported by Duns commercial agency mid recites the failures of the nine months of the present year compared with those for i 1001 The showing Is that for 1901 the allure In thIs country coun-try the first nine months numbered Sill with liabilities of 07856110 while for the ame nine months of the present pres-ent year the failures numbered S7W with liabilities of 113 lass That Is comparing one Republican year with another Republican year there has been an Increase of mercantile disasters disas-ters The Increase Is not very great lobe lo-be tsure but It is something and no doubt the anthracite coal strike Is responsible re-sponsible for much of that Increase In number ot allures and amount of liabilities lia-bilities ill remains true however that no matter how prosperous a country may be there will be fluctuations of this kind year by year But the true partisan comparison 1 II tuvi jw M11 xui jiui LILUI Jimpuses mat u the Democratic organ makes this comparison com-parison IB not Republican years with Republican years that should be taken for comparison hut Republican years with Democratic years Thus this year of ISO the second of the Presidential term should be compared with the like year oC the term of our latest Democratic Demo-cratic President tho year 1SIM I So compared how do the llgurcs stand The record Is easy to get Dun reports the failures for the llrst nine months of 1SJU numbered 09GC JH compared with S7J3 this year with liabilities of 131 611102 as compared with 113131658 now arul this after the also Democratic previous year ISP1 had shown failures numbering 15202 with liabilities of 316779889 a number mid aggregate that one might well have fiupposed would exhaust the rapacity of the country for failures Il must be remembered too that the country has Increased tremendously In business and capital since 1S9I eo that wlilln the absolute ab-solute number of failures and amounts Involved were very mufh greater in 1894 than this year thc proportion of such failures and amount In that year bore an Immeasurably greater ratio to the uholc bUBlnesss of the country then than the failures of thin year do now It Is n fair statement then to Hay that the failures of the nIne months of this year are proportionately riot half as Important to the business of the coun try as wcr the fallurcn of 18H to the buBincssB of the country then Foryery hamc we should suppose those partisan workers of commercial statistics would refrain from Inviting comparisons under Republican condl LIons with the record of business and Industrial disaster which their party success of 1892 brought upon the whole United States |