| Show t The Business Year c. c l' l Under tho the above heading Bradi Bradstreets Brad- Brad i streets says V J i y i L J. J l Constituting on H as it does the theM M ti 1 fifth year during during- which i v y American Xin ican trade tradel industry an and andy sp speculation has expanded ea each h rear settin setting up some new now stand stand- y tards turn have been i role role- r i gated to the to the e past because i J jent to longer longer- express tho the proa pro pro- a Digressive growth which the theta I t-a t country has attained I the year I I can mere justly perhaps perhaps- ps t t th any year which has proceed proceed- it Jay lay claim to the title of f y record rec ker This This the thea a true truo i 1 boca because se unlike any of J the four years wh which ch pr cee it 1901 Ol witnessed and indeed suf- suf r Rt a combinations combination o of hap hap- i ening which in ia a normal year r haY j een classed a as at least r i. i p d depressing p esBin if not if-not not actually ly dJs t nf The he best est p proof offin in fact the new standards have been set up l of late years and that o old d rules rulos no longer govern with with h hard r and fa fait t fe effect is found o nd in in t the e. e s r r- f th onward march of tl things ings n C commercial in the fa face co of obstacles 1 k le rs serious rios rio s in iri past pas perIO periods S. S f A A A y year ar ng ago in of the situation sit situation sit sit- uati n and outlook atte attention ion ins was called t tor to the buoyant c. c y nt tone in g gene gen gen- gen gen- moral m- m oral e oral al aaI the confidence very veryn very j n rally felt as to to o th the o outlook It i is ft that voices crying ry ri rin n in the i it word were not t Wanting I Jf ass 5 po wanting f. f I y I which predicted that the best bost had been garnered and that progress had stopped been if indeed the downward j co course had bad not already begun irregularity of pome of the returns the returns for the tho year 1900 lent color to these pes pessimistic pred predictions predictions pre pre- pre pre- d dictions and yet looking back upon the records since made mado the conviction must grow that the fall fallin fallin in p 1900 th the shrinkage in clearings and and n a number of other si signs ns of r recession were merely evidences that t the prosperity iti mOJe movement ent h had hd d paused paused to to to take take breath and digest some of of the re results results re re- suIts of pf preliminary to the further advance which has occur oc oc- cur curr red |
