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WHY WE ARE PROSPEROUS. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



Why We Are Prosperous 



The Pitvof It 



Rubber Shoes lor the Indians. 



TheMackay Pacific Cable 



Evidences of Great Prosperity 



Crude Rubber Prodaction and Prices 



[Hecht, Levis & Kahn's Annual Review, 

 at New Yorii, i8q4 to 1902.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 



[Tire Matters. Reclaimed Rubber. Bottle Rings. The British Insu- 

 lated Wire Co. " Para Rubber " from the East. The Proofing 

 Trade. Cable and Other Notes.] 



The Blooming of Eed Rubber Goods 



The New Gutta Percha 



Diagram of Rubber Prices 



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Atfairs in the Amazon Rubber Country 



[Tlie Acre Concession. Amazon Cable. Amazonas Finances. 

 tary Condition of the Rubber Districts.] 



The English Macintosh 



[With Four Illustrations of Late Styles.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber UHuslrated) 



[Improvement in " Clincher " Tires. The " Anti-Choke " Comforter. 

 The ** Lenox " Ice Bag. Bailey's P'oothold, A New Wateroroof 

 Coat. The New " Reform *' Comb. Two New Fire Hose Racks.] 



The Obituary Record , 



[With Portrait of Richard R. Whitehead.] 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 



[United States. Austria-Hungary, Germany. France.] 



Recent Rubber Patents [ American and English] 



Reclaiming Rubber with Power from Niagara Falls 



[With Three Illustrations of the Plant of the U. S. Rubber Reclaiming 



Works.] 



The Cutting of Rubber Coated Fabrics 



[With Four Illustrations.] 

 Miscellaneous : 



A Standard Steel Channel for Tires ilUustratcd). 



A Railroad Projected for Bolivia 



Intercepting Wireless Telegrams 



Some Rubber Like Compounds 



Rubber in the Upper Nile Region 



A New School of Literature 



Rubber Yield of German Africa 



Planting Money Instead of Rubber 



New Trade Publications 



Some Wants of The Rubber Trade 



Rubber Notes from Europe 



. C. Elaalica 



News of The American Rubber Trade 



The Rubber Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 



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' I 'HE country is prosperous. It usually is, but just now 

 *■ the fact is exceptionally apparent. It is admitted 

 without qualification in circles abroad where it has been 

 usual for any statement favorable to business conditions 

 in America to be credited to the Yankee tendency to 

 boast. The London Times, for instance, prints a leader 

 on the recent great increase in wealth of the United 

 States, as indicated by the fact that the railroad property 

 of the country is now mainly owned at home. But more 

 important than the changed attitude of European senti- 

 ment in this regard is the testimony of recent American 

 statistics from every accepted source — commercial or gov- 

 ernmental. The census figures for 1900 — made public 

 this time with unprecedented promptness — compared with 

 the returns for 1890, make an astonishing showing of in- 

 crease in the agricultural population, in its wealth, and in 

 the profits of farming. The growth of manufactures, too, 

 has been marked, including the development of industries 

 that are practically new to this country. There are to be 

 considered, also, the returns of our foreign trade, of more 

 recent date, upon which only one construction can be 

 placed — that they record a prosperous condition. 



On another page of this journal is roughly summarized 

 a review of trade conditions appearing recently in T/te 

 Iron Age, which may justly be described as making a re- 

 markable showing. Without doubt an equally careful sur- 

 vey of any other branch of trade, taking the country as a 

 whole, would fully corroborate the reports collected in the 

 hardware branch. Every important railway system in the 

 country has under way an amount of work for the better- 

 ment of its property that calls, in the aggregate, for a vast 

 .amount of material and labor. There are municipal 

 improvements in progress everywhere that require immense 

 expenditures. In New York alone an underground rail- 

 way is being constructed, under a §35,000,000 contract, 

 besides costly bridges and public buildings. At the same 

 time the rebuilding of the city goes on apace, that the 

 same amount of land may accommodate a greater popula- 

 tion, and with more comfort. All of which means a ready 

 market for labor, at remunerative wages, and the consump- 

 tion of quantities of material that not so long ago would 

 have seemed fabulous. 



The country ought to be prosperous. Any other condi- 

 tion would mean that the generations of industrious, intel- 

 ligent, progressive, honest millions who have worked with 

 brains and brawn, on lands owned by themselves, and under 

 favorable and just laws, had worked in vain. Failure under 

 such circumstances would prove discouraging to efforts to- 

 ward progress, in every land and clime, for a long time to 

 come. The prosperity of to-day, which compels the atten- 

 tion of the world, is but the aggregate success of thousands 

 and millions of families who have worked long to attain it, 

 and is no cause for wonder. Of course there will be other 

 years when the picture will be less attractive. The farmers 

 cannot hope for the largest crops every year ; the demand 

 for steel cannot increase always at the present rate ; there 

 must be periods when the foreign demand for food and 



