Show uncle sams granaries are full and the treasury is bursting with gold tuat an as S zed up by secretary shaw would show that the peo pie of the un td t d states have enjoyed a most prosperous year washington Is no occa 1 for alarm our anxiety need be lest we fail in facilities properly prop eily to garner store transport and meet our multiplied blessings let ever man be of good cheer and try to be con serva tive in everything except thank falness secretary shaw thus concludes a resume of the year s financial record which he says has been prepared in response to multiplied requests in round numbers he places the receipts tor ahe calendar year of 1906 at and the expenditures at or an excess of receipts over expenditures of 59 As there has been no change in the tariff laws or the laws relating to internal revenue secretary shaw says the large increase in receipts Is due sole ly to the trade activity the total expenditures however for 1906 as compared with 1900 he says shows a decrease of only he maintains that the existing money stringency world wide in its extent is traceable in no respect and in no degree to the independent treas ury system of the thisted states he says the manifest and admitted shortage has been caused by the un prosperity in this coun try and reasonable prosperity every where the people of the united states he declares consume per cap ita more food more clothing more of everything than any other people in the world and when prosperous they import very largely this he asserts naturally encourages indus try everywhere and unusual business activity calls tor an unus lal amount of actual money and of credits based on actual money the effect of the present car short age on the money market Is also al eluded to the secretary says A larger crop of cotton than usual and an unprecedented yield of cereals and every other agn cult iral product has filled granaries and warehouses to overflowing and congested cons ested every important railway 4 bew years ago the freight cars of the country aragel forty miles a day but owing to the present congested condition and insufficient terminal facilities and factory sidings they now move only twenty five miles a day th s delayed freight Is owned by some one and some one s money ts thus tied up |