Show RUM k 3 aram YAR ka 3 N ad ra AT T rouix r 4 RE TY 0 1 tso 0 1 all records broken by the harvests manufactures and commerce of the 1 4 1 J 0 united states slates L it has been a year of glistening national prosperity and its ito brightness la is reflected into the year that la Is to coile nowhere on the horizon to la there visible a cloud of doubt that next year w til III be as generous handed is as has the ear whose bell haa bas just tolled all records of prosperity for this and far any other country hae bae been broken by the harvests manufacturers and the commerce of the united states of america for the twelve months montha which now have slipped finally into the paa the north has haa had a prosperity in which the west has shared and the south simply Is fat with plenty plent no principal crop in the united states has failed for the bushel sown sovin the earth has rp returned turned its twenty fold it Is not necessary to give the in order that the great tact fact may be grasped in all the staples of life tile the bear ear has broken the record ol of ilela it is possible that in the case of cot ton an exception should be made but ot of the southern there has haa been a production as aa large as the people of the cotton growing sections could have wished the prices are high everano eve rono had some cotton and everyone has haa a share of the selling price the secretary of agriculture has haa said that the well vell being of the amerl ameri can farmer Is a matter of the profoundest foun dest lu interest terest to the entire country ile he might have gone farther and have said that the well vell being of the entire country depends upon the well being ot of the Ame american farmer it has haa been a year of unsurpassed eilt to he agriculturists of the country production has boon been unequaled and as aa the wealth and the happiness of all depend upon that which from the ground we go bick back to the basis and the cioper place for the prophecy of happiness when noen we stand i poll the farm by the time that the new 3 ear has run half its course it is probable that there will be a fuller and better un den landing between he sister bister coun tries of north and south america the third conference ot of the pan american states Is to be held in brazil and there the secretary of state of tl e greatest of the american coun tries trie will III meet with mth the officials of the smaller republics and out of their conferences and discussions it Is believed will come plans which when then put to the working test will balte make ee be cure avire upon a firm foundation the peace of two continents it Is probable that before the first session cession of the fifty ninth congress sees bees the day of adjournment that a national quarantine law will be passed which w will reduce to a minim minimum bin he danger of yellow feier feer epidemics in the south it Is probable that before the new bear ear becomes an old year two stars w m III bo be added to the flag of the united states arizona and new mexico join ed to become one state and okla homa and indian territory joined to become the other when this end Is accomplished there will be no terri left in the union and ald the year ear 1906 will aali go down in history as the bear ear which saw the fulfillment of the dream of the fathers to go again into the immediate past it may be said eald for the last of the old 5 ears cars that it saw the making of a rec ord for american commerce in both matters of exports and of imports the lear ear 1904 produced the first ati lion ilon dollar record for imports the bear ear 1905 saw a mit material erial incie ise and dining each one of its twelve months the alue balue of the imports amounted to practically all against an average of lefas than calf half that amount only a score of icara cars ago ahe 0 he exports of the united states as an offic official igl puts it nover never touched the billion dollar mark until the 3 sear ear ISIS 1895 and have neer ne er in any calendar 5 3 ear been as much as a billion and a half dollars in value but this ear they haie hae considerably exceeded that figure and will approximate a value of none of the of who make a study of trade con coa editions has been able to discover ani thing in the future which should pre vent a like marvelous growth of the commerce of the united states dur ing the coming 5 ear the manufactures ot of the country in creased their share luring during the last ear in both imports anti anil exports ot of the united states the increase in the importation ot of manufacturers ma in the ten months ending nov 1 1905 amounted to an increase of 21 per cent over the cor responding period ot of last year while the increate Inc in all other imports amounted to but 34 54 an in crease ot of 12 per cent over oyer the corre sp spending months of 1904 in the matter of exports of manu fractures fac tures the alue of increase during ten months of 1905 was an increase of 14 per pcr cent while bili the gain of all other exports nias about an increase in creaso of 7 per cent over the same months of last bear ear the was washington angton officials who apal df al in the statistics of manufacturers hold that there is every apparent indica tion alon that the prosperous showing of the last acar 1 car Is to be more than du in the sear bear that Is to come it Is a talal well established fact that coming unhappy events cast long sh shadows ados before the students of mhd th situation look not only at the matter immediately in hand band but they look at all the conditions ot of commercial life the state of the count rys finances the likelihood ot of tariff changes the possibilities of commercial wars and in fact at all other things upon which government agents make reports they look at all these things before they attempt anthina an thing of 0 prophecy and when they do dd consent to prophecy the do not put iut it in black and white ble because there la Is always a chance of the arising of something hitherto un known but they do consent to give sit an of their belief in the future founded upon the tha best knowl edge which la is given to them from fill all available sour sources ceis it la is only the crop expert who lit in the winter the lime of the death of vegetation r fuses to aay ay one word as to the furuie tor for the time of long distance weather fore casts has not yet arrived the view of the coming year ar it touches exports anti and imposts and the manufacturers of tho the country la is to be only by tile the inu much chused used and apparently well liked word rosy should there be those who mho look only to the purse parse as the standard of a peoples people a happiness happl nesa it may be said that there Is more mora mon mony money y in ciraula tion among tile tha inhabitants of the united states today to day than ever there has been lefore despite bank les here and there the financial ansti tut lonal solidity and prosperity of the country seems seema to have a foundation ot of rock which cannot readily be worn away the light ahead |