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Show There Is No Depression. There Is an effort on the pait of some democratic newspapers and a few blatant orators to create lack of conlldence in the public mind by saying say-ing the country Is going to the bad; that great Industries arc shutting down; that the railways are retrenching, retrench-ing, Instead of improving roadbed and equipment; that no new factories are being constructed; that thousands of working people arc idle and that republican re-publican prosperity Is a myth. These statements aic so palpably false or so greatly exaggerated that Intelligent persons are not misled by them, but there is danger that when the canards arc reiterated by the calamity howlers a few people who do not keep closely in touch witli Industrial and commercial commer-cial conditions may be led to believe them. Any man or newspaper that deliberately deliber-ately attempts to create distrust in the financial or commercial world is little less than criminal. Some states have punitory laws framed for the purpose of sending to prison persons who circulate untruthful rumors about banks and trust companies! If the man who causes a run on a bank by spreading a false leport is a criminal, crimi-nal, Is not the man or newspaper that attempts to make capital by destroying destroy-ing public conlldence also a criminal? And, by the same reasoning, is not the party that permits or endorses the utteranccs"of the calamity howler and spreader of false rumors an enemy of tlie law? Suppose the democratic party won a victory at the polls through destroying de-stroying conlldence in commercial and industrial cliclcs, would the administration adminis-tration of that party have, the conlldence conll-dence of the people? Would not capital, capi-tal, which Is always timid in tlie face of uncertainty, begin to hide? And when capital Is distrustful what happens? hap-pens? Industries lag or close, trade of the retail merchant falls off, the Jobber and wholesaler stiller, rail way traillc diminishes, hundreds of thousands thous-ands of wage earneis are thrown out of work, distress becomes general, soup houses are opened and cities are compelled to begin charitable works for the idle. No political party that countenances countenan-ces the creation of distrust Is worthy of tlie people's conlldence. It will be a sorry day for the country when the calamity howlers succeed in rcveislng those bcncllccnt policies which tlie republican re-publican party lias put into cllect and which have lesulted in an era of thej greatest piosperlty any nation has! ever known. That Industries and business of all kinds continue to prosper tlieie can be no doubt. The few strikes in tlie building and other trades are not Indicative In-dicative of depressed conditions. Wage earneis do not strike In times of panlcor waning prosperity. Strikes are generally for higher wages, and no toller expects an Increase In wages when work Is scarce and thousands of Ills fellows are Idle. There Is ample evidence that prosperous pros-perous times are still with us. A glance at tlie newspapers, democratic as well as republican, shows that millions mil-lions of dollars arc being expended in building new factories and enlarging old ones, in constructing now trolley lint's and improving the roadbed and equipment of steam railway. Moie persons arc employed now than ever before. As proof of this statement, state-ment, take, for Instance, the. rallwajs, whoso traillc alwajs is a rcllex of business busi-ness conditions generally. The nuni-berof nuni-berof employes on the pay tolls of the railways in the United States on June 30, 1003, was 1,312,537, or 03!) per 100 miles of line. These llgures, compared compar-ed witli tiioso of 1002, show an Increase In-crease of 123,222, or 15 per 100 miles of line. J |