Show I PROSPERITY HB REMAINS S L WITh ITH US Chicago Journal However ba bad the tIme financial situation sit sll- nation may ha have hal l at at one time business men felt confident the there e cou could bo be o no serious ous trouble The reason for feeling so was ws that the time United States Steel corporations corporation's report showed that prosperity was still with us us for rOI the iron tra trade e I is always Indicative Indi- Indi catire of or the thc general condition When hen the tIme blast furnaces are hot business is inevitably good hen the they turn col cold trouble is at hand The iron manufacture of the country was never neverin in him better condition than it is at present The c steel stoe trust has now on Its books unfilled orders amounting to fo moro re tons tons yan l is booking ne new ones at the tho rate of ot tons tonsa a day daj Exports arc are arenow now about tons tOilS a year at prices substantially on a a. parity with domestic prices The trust trus Is selling no more steel rails to Japan at 20 20 a a. tonIt ton It H gets 30 a ton for its latest consignment Demand Demand De De- mand for tho the trusts trust's pro products has Imas been constantly constant Increasing d during the thc past five years and present necessities arc arcery very ery great rea tho the farmer happy over the enormous sum of oil money mone- that Is corning coming in for his crops and with the time Iron trade booming panic Is out ut of tho the question ques ques- tion There ma may be a stringency of ot currency Indeed in indeed In- In deed thero must be for there is a total of thirteen billions of bank deposits alone atone In time the United States and a m money ney- ney circulation al of ot less than three billions But the the country is full of w wealth ah and no amount of ot timidity l coul could produce poverty po Cash ma may be hard to g get t- t but but all that cash buys bus I is here in plenty The events of the thc past week have Jon long been foreseen by Ly bankers but they could not have ha been prevented under our present currency system Congress Congress Con Con- gress bress mu must t devise a a. way to Increase tho time amount of ot monc money In th the tho nation and see seo that it Is mado made clastic elastic and able to respond to such strain as has been put upon of or late |