Prosperity and the Labor Question
The fiscal year just closed has been a prosperous one to the country as a whole. There is a thirty-three million dollar surplus in the national treasury, one billion eight hundred million dollars cash in the treasury vaults. There were two billion fifty-seven million dollars in exports, and large crops. Credit is good, as shown by the sale of fifty million dollars' worth of three per cent Panama Canal bonds. The New York Times declares that "in bulk never was there such ample provision for filling stomachs and freight-cars. There will be all that either men or animals can eat, and at prices enabling them to eat it." But that will depend on how many of the great institutions employing labor are running.