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Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. No Signs of Depression in Wholesale or Retail Lines. NEW YORK, Sept. II. Bradsti cet's tomorrow to-morrow will say: "Trade grows, prospects for fall are encouraging en-couraging and industrial outputs generally gener-ally are only limited by lark of labor, but repression is created in some channels by past or possible future price fixing, by uncertainty un-certainty over taxation on excess profits, by the hardening of rates for money and by the husbanding of resources to take care of the forthcoming government loan. Still the wants of a very numerous well-employed well-employed people, plus the enormous needs of a wealthy nation at war, have made for a forward movement, and while government govern-ment buying looms largest the more Important Im-portant markets have been visited by numerous nu-merous merchants who have taken staple articles rather freely. It is undeniable, however, that, high prices tend to deter free buying and, moreover, those who -control credit reins are disposed to discourage dis-courage the locking up of too much capital capi-tal In high-priced merchandise, especially as It is a foregone conclusion that the government's needs for money must receive re-ceive precedence. Aside from the uplift -In house trade which is manifest in de- mand for dry goods and kindred lines cool, indeed frosty, weather in parts of tlie country the first part of tlie week greatly stimulated retailing, but on the other hand hurt the quality and to some extent the quantities of late unmatured crops. Bank, clearings, $5,751,1SU,000." |