Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-10 | Page 4 | Unequaled Activity

ON EQUALED ACTIVITY ni ohe best authorities in the oil commercial and financial affairs says this country is threatened with a serious disarrangement of one third of its foreign commerce by the new german tariff to go into effect next year andi in reviewing the future growth of american industries he claims this feature 0 our export trade calls for a high order of statesmanship the foreign trade has now become an important factor in the count rys prosperity but america can buffer a few reversals in foreign market and remain highly prosper bua at no time tn our history has business been so good the figures ator octobers iron and steel outputs show that all records of production have been broken crops of unequaled magnitude have been harvested industrial are working overtime to fill orders the great transportation agencies find themselves unable to handle traffic with all their equipment n ase and are placing orders for thousands of new care and in every channel nd avenue of business the same reports of solid substantial good times prevail the cheering phase of I 1 this condition ot affairs Is that th at no particular stir is being made owr it la basy prosperity la accepted s natural and no wild booms are being engineered to endanger the future on the whole the outlook tor good business was never so bright as at this ume this does not mean that the possibility ot bad aimee has been removed panic is an ever latent con but it Is preventable in a measure just as epidemics of disease aro prevented by vigilant and intelligent supervision this fact has been brough to the business interests 0 ano united states during the past anve or ten years as never before the folly 0 capitalization overcapitalization over and haa been demonstrated time and time again and so far a the future is concerned there is little alilce lahood that the united states will buffer materially tram either abuse during the remainder of the present decade