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Governor Wilson on Trade
Expansion
It is said that two-thirds of the half-thousand business men who
heard Got ernor Wilson s speech before the Omaha < '<>inim reia l club
last Saturday came to protest, but remained to applaud. The speak
er converted th" mass of his Republican hearers into enthusiastic
champions of trade expansion, through commercial reciprocity, and
the revival of the American merchant marine.
There ran through Governor Wilson’s Omaha speech the thrill
of that prophecy which was voiced so memorably by President Mc-
Kinley in his admonition.
Mr. McKinley said at Buffalo on that September day. 19(11 :
W» have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of toil
and struggle, in which every putt of the country has had its stake—which
will not pennit elthc of neglect or of undue selfishness. No narrow, sordid
policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the part of the
manufacturers atiri producers will be required to hold and increase it.
• • •
Our capacity to pioduce has developed so enormously and our prod
ucts have so multiplied, that the problem of more markets requires our
urgent and immediate attention * » • Only a broad and enlightened
policy- will keep what wo have. No other policy will get more. • » »
W» must not repose in fancied security on the assumption that we
can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing » » »
THE PERIOD OF EX< IJ’SIVENESS IS PAST THE EXPANSION
OF OIK TRADE AND COMMERCE IS THE PRESSING PROBLEM.
Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly
trade relation- will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are In har
mony with the spirit of the times measures of retaliation are not. • » »
We must encourage our merchant marine. WE MUST HAVE MORE
SHIPS THEY MI’ST RE IN'DER THE AMERICAN ELAG—BUILT
AND MANNED AND OWNED RY AMERICANS.
There is no sentence of this unforgettable farewell deliterauee
of a great Republican president that was not paralleled by the
Democratic presidential candidate al Omaha on Saturday.
Rut Mr. McKinley did not have his party behind him.
There is no doubt, on the other hand, that Governor Wilson
speaks, not only for a united Democracy, Imt also for that nett and
improved commercial intelligence of the country which broke into
repentant Republican cheers at Omaha, and which isflboveall party
names.
What’s the Matter With the
lurk?
Once more Europe is ablaze with indignation against the
Turk. It seems very’ likely that now at last doomsday is really
coming to the nation which for half a thousand years has been
in Europe, but never has been European.
It was in the middle of the fifteenth century that the Mo
hammedan power captured Constantinople ih e key of the com
merce and civilization of the Near East; and ever since that
time, in intermittent spasms, at shortening intervals. Europe
has groaned and travailed to east the intruder out.
The whole world today is insurgent against old habits. Tin 1
uprising against the Turk is a phase of the general movement
of radicals against reactionaries. The final trouble with the
Turk is that he is a fatalist, and will not move. He stands
pat
There was high hope two or three years ago that the Young
Turk would conquer the Old Turk—the “Sick Man," the “In
speakahle." But that hope seems now to have faded. The
revolutionary movement in Turkey has spent itself in political
intrigues. It has tried to cement and subjugate the outlying
provinces. It has been incapable of internal reforms.
In all European Turkey there are said to be no more Ilian
a million people of pure Turkish blood. This ruling caste has
inherited a great tradition—much tine art, some science and a
language that is the joy and admiration of all philologists. Its
religion is. in theory, humane and liberal. The Turk was toler
ant of dissenters at a lime when Christians put their heretics to
the rack and thumbscrew.
Yet the soil of Turkey is soaked with' the blood of massa
cre. And no permanent truce is possible between the Turk and
Europe.
The final reason of this irreducible antagonism is the fact
that the Turks hate progress.
The Turkish view of the meaning of life is that of a stand
pal senator of the United States nr a beneficiary of Schedule K
Perhaps a little more so.
The Turk turns with a pious loathing from the idea that
human conditions can be improved by agitation or organized
effort. He would let well enough or ill enough alone. He is
placable if left to smoke in peace. But he rises like a fury to
avenge himself upon those who disturb his rest.
He is the paladin of vested interests, the perfect champion
of privilege, the arch reactionary.
That is why modern Europe can not endure him.
That is why he must be driven back into Asia.
Perhaps the hour of his exit is at hand.
“Collier’s’’ and Standard Oil |
Many persons profess surprise that Collier’s Weekly took up
the cudgels in be ha 11 ot thestand ard (til (ompany in the mat ter of
famous letters. It is nol quite clear why Collier's should un
d?rtake to answer when the writers of the letters, ami the recipients
or trie letters, did nol try to answer but simply confessed
Sumc of the letters already published, ami we are informed
several other letters among the two or three hundred that vet re
main to he published, show that the Standard Oil Company was
extremely generous with checks, subscribing in bulk for periodicals
and weeklies that were willing either to defend the Standard Oil
Company or to attack the enemies of the Standard Oil Compam
We know’, of course, that Collier’s Weekly is sadly in need of
subscribers, very few people are w illing to take it except a
gift when thrown in with other publications Rut w<- have believed
hitherto that < oilier's could not bi- bought
It anyone in the Standard Oil ('ompany did arrange the “nt
lack or “iletense whatever it may be called in tin current
■ issue, it is obvious that it was dom m the absence of Mr Archbold
in Europe, been use, while Mr Are h bold s com pan v Im-. In-, n eon vmt
ed ot all sorts of crimes, he has never been accused of siupiditx
And the Collier s article, either as an attack m as a def. ns. was
exceedingly stupid
It tin Standard Oil ('ompany did proem, it it is ..m ot the
very far. ease- wh.-ie the Standard Oil < ompany paid fol sum
thuig «md got nothing
The Atlanta Georgian
The Great Political Show
By HERSH Fl ELD.
gill * p u
|IRI PA R W feis,fiß -0'
lisßl
I’here was an Old Man who when little
Fell casually into a kettle;
But, growing too stout, he could never get out,
So he passed all his life in that kettle.
From Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense.
:: How to Build a Fortune ::
Cupi ta /izing > 'oil rself
I.
A NEWS Hern stated recently
that the officials of a West
ern railway had sent a letter
to each of its employees, asking
him to incorporate himself at a
capital equivalent to his earning
capacity.
A man earning SSOO per year is
worth to himself, his family and
his employer $lO.llOO on a five per
cent basis.
1 'ompa' ea ma n < apita liz d at
slll.llOO with a business building
worth the same amount. The build-'
Ing is worth less every day of its
existence, and so much is written
off its valut at the eml or th. year
for depreciation In a few years it
must come down and give place to
a new structure.
Now. take the man who is worth
SIO,OOO as a worker, receiving five
per cent of the’ amount annually
lot s.‘>ooi in wages. In-tead of be
ing worth less every year he can. if
he wishes it. be worth more. He
run last longer than a SIO,OOO
building He does not need to de
preciate in value.
He Can Get to Work
He i an I to w»rk with his head
and his hands and so Improve him
self that his \\a«es Im «in to ise
W hen In has ma i* himself worth
$1.1)00 a war hi> < apitaHzatlon
mounted t«» s2o.<mih \n<| he <ioes
not m ed t*> slop at tilts point if lie
d« sii. s tn k»»< p on.
The world *.»\s a |»hih»M<q iidi
I" 'lie *
man ha** Iralj -olvrd th* problem of
building •< f ■ turn who puts
mom . (It bank H« im -I k* (
i * . ' tn< »i • plaii moss
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W EDNESDAY, ()< TOBER 9, 1912.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
Eight Hundred and Thirty-two •
hollars and Eighty-four Cents in
twenty years, at four per cent com
pound interest, we feel convinced
that it is easy to get money to
gether. But it is a better form of
fortune building to try to increase
one's self at the same late.
Don't Build Air Castles.
litis < tn not lie done by building
air castles. Wi-hing is the dream
of the idle. Working and thinking
tilt the pow , r of the industrious.
Ihe oi»ly way to increase y our
capitalized value is by thinking
You must conti •
The Sterilized Boy
By PERCY SHAW.
SA Y. I would like to breath*' some
air
That wasn't so refined:
And have a chance to run and hop
With no one near to mind.
And eat an apple 'fore it's peeled.
And own some dirty toys,
And be too t>oor to have a nurse
And play like other boys.
Why . every time that Columbine
Come- off the street with me
She has to change hei clothes and
mine
Eot feat of get ins. you see.
And if 1 tjrab a stone or touch
A post along the walk,
You'd think it was a crocodile
To heat her line of talk.
And kissing I .an' ki.-s a soul
Without an aw fill tow ,
Mid Mother sayhig Well, for sure. .
He'll get the measles HOW "
I niii't p> t cats ot dog-, and w hen j
A stt angel pats mv head
I get it v ashed with smelly stuff,
.las; as th. docto' said
S I it y oil know a I ban get in
T •<> st’oug to Hti’liltZ* .
that you ..in i aii ti and send around I
-ort of a surprise.
I I tti gilt git st. k and hnt< -omr fun.
Mid ma i In then th<->'d ** r
’ wi<«n't any mw t<« make
I Il
• study habit Study com" work and
improve it. Study your chances and
improve them.
Every horn you loaf, when you
do not need to, is so much less
mental and financial fortune.
The greatest, tragedy of the day
is not the bad man or the bad
woman. They have always been,
and probably always will be. But
it is the half-trained men and
women, the person who can do
nothing well enough to make the
work a valuable service.
But the moment one can do any
thing up to the top notch, then the
service is worth something, and
people an willing to pay for it.
111.
The secret of fortune building is
not to give the thought wholly to
money. A man who is everlaqting
ly try ing to improve himself will
get a fortune, or as much fortune
as he wants.
The Cry of the Half-Trained.
The social disturbance that
comes from half-trained people
grumbling because life is so hard is
useless and detrimental.
Don't wish. Get in work.
Don't criticise others. Build up
yourself*
Don't listen to the equal distribu
tion of wealth talk. Go out and
earn whatever share of wealth you
w ant.
Don't let your . apitalized value
depreciate. Keep it up, and k-rp it
going up A business with T.n
I hour in.l Ulis year and Tiwiity
Thousand two or three years from
i no . is inspiring You .an du the
satm tor yourself.
HUI l! 11 n• • m 111 • j ini. f T <»n i
'■ • 1’ * onu's from p i pi, ation
from ii « mu cat of the brou.
l>-m t io< th«» in<»n< \. Love the
‘ ‘‘ ' ■' » i :on f ;i;i I |< t
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THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
Agreeability
It Is a Wonderful Asset and Its
First Requisite Is Glowing
Physical Health; Its Second
Ingredient Is Honesty and Its
Third Is Good Will.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
George Peabody, the great f
American banker, had one
thing which will make any
man or woman rich. It is some
thing so sweetly beneficent that
can we. call it the gift of the
gods.
The asset to which I refer is
Agreeability.
Its first requisite is glowing
physical health. The second in
gredient is honesty. Its third is
good will.
Nothing taints the breath like a
lie. The old parental plan of wash
ing the boy’s mouth out with soft
soap had a scientific basis.
Must Have Good Memories.
Liars must possess good memo
ries. They are fettered and gyved
by what they have said and done.
The honest man is free —his acts
require neither explanation nor
apology. He is in possession of al!
his armament.
If I were president of a college,
I would have a chair devoted to
Agreeability. Ponderosity, pro
fundity and insipidity may have
their place, but the agreeable man
keeps his capital active. His soul
is fluid.
I have never been in possession
of this Social ’Radium, so as to
analyze it, but I know It has the
power of dissolving opposition and
melting human hearts. But so del
icate and illusive is it that when
used for a purely sordid purpose
it evaporates info thin air, and the
erstwhile possessor is left with only
the mask of beauty and the husk
of personality.
George Peabody had Agreeability
from his nineteenth year to the
day of his death. Colon«I Forney
crossed the Atlantic with him when
Peabody was in his seventy-first
year, and here is what Forney
says:
"I sat on one side of the cabin
and he on the other. He was read
ing from a book, which he finally
merely held in his hands, as he sat
idly dreaming. I was melted into
tears by the sight of his Jove-like
head framed against the window.
His face and features beamed with
high and noble intellect, and his
eyes looked forth in divine love. If
ever soul revealed itself in the face, •
” ’ <
:: Birth of the Navy :: i
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
IT was 137 years ago that the old •
continental congress author
ized the equipment of a couple
of cruisers, mounting, respectively,
ten and fourteen guns—and it was
in that very modest bill that the
American navy had its birth.
At first the growth of the navy
was distressingly slow. There was
a doleful lack of efficient material
at home, and our agents were un
able to enlist the active sympathies
of foreign nations. There was. of
course, a good reason for this —
those nations did not want us to
have a navy. They had a sort of
premonition that the embryonic re
public might make trouble for them
if it should succeed In getting its
guns on the brine.
But in the midst of our troubles
something happened that put a new
face on the situation at once. Daul
Jones won his brilliant victory off
Flamborough Head, and the Yan
kee navy experienced the "boom''
that is felt to tlfi« day. The exulta
tion born of that victory went
through the nascent nation with a
thrill and a buzz, and it was al
ready written down that America
was sooner or later to become a
sea power.
The Utt’, navy provided by the
continental congress was about
us. d up in the struggle w ith King
George, ami flom 1780 to 1757.
were practically without a war
tli i t Rut wm n the Barbai y S ales
began to m-.ilt us. eongii -s got
busy' again and ordered the con
st iHtlnn of six or tight frigates,
■bo ll gave .< ipl. ndid m ■ mini of
i
uid oihci waters.
■H
V it was here. He was the very Kins
of Men, and I did not wonder that
in the past people had worked th
-of such.”
Cultivate This Asset.
To the clerk who would succeed,
I say cultivate Agreeability. Cour
teous manners in little things are
an asset worth requiring. You
rise when a customer approaches:
you offer a chair; you step aside
and let the store's guest pass first
into the elevator; these are little
things, but they make your work
and yourself finer.
To guy visitors or to give short,
flippant answers even to stupid or
impudent people is a great mis
take. Meet rudeness with unfail
ing patience and politeness and s-e
how much better you feel.
If your business Is to wait on
customers, be careful of your dr. s
and appearance. Do your manicui
ing before you reach the store.
Dental floss is a good investment.
A salesman with a bad breath is
dear at any Let your dress
be quiet, neat and not too fashion
able. To have a good appearance
helps you inwardly and helps the
business.
Give each customer your whole
attention —and just as considerate
attention to a little buyer as a big
one. If asked for information, in
sure you have it before you give >t.
Do not assume that the location or
fact is so now because you once
knew it so. Don’t misdirect. Mak.
your directions so clear that they
will be a real help.
The Greater Your Reward.
The less you require looking aft
er, the more able you are to stand
alone and complete your tasks, the
greater your regard. Then if you
can not only do your work, but
also intelligently and effectively di
rect the efforts of others, -your re
ward Is in an exact ratio; and th
- people you direct, and tii
higher the intelligence you can
rightly lend, the more valuable is
your life.
The most precious possession in
life is good health. Eat moderate
ly. breathe deeply, exercise out-of
doors and get eight hours sic- p
; And cultivate Agreeability as
<- business proposition.
At the breaking out of the ■
of 1812 our consisted of-■ v
enteen seagoing ships, nine of t •,
being below the frigate class, ami
a few gunboats designed for coast
defense Yet, as all the world
knows, this little navy behave.,
splendidly in its contest with the
greatest sea power in the world,
and at the close of the war toe
"greatest sea power in the world”
had for our navy abounding re
spect.
After we had settled our dispute
with Great Britain upon the iiigit
seas, our navy, having nothing n
particular to do. went into decline,
where it remained until the broth
ers war of '6l -'6.5. At the begi'
ning of that war the United Slat- s
navy consisted of but 76 vess< s
of all kinds, with a roll of enlisted
men of some 22,000. while at th»
close of the struggle there tv»re ,
over 600 vessels, with over 57,""0
officers and men.
The Civil war revolutionized not
only our own navy, but those of al!
other nations as well. Prom the
day on which the battle between
the Monitor and Merrimac was
fought the old navies of the world
ware not worth a rush, and all the
naval boards b> gan to govern them
selves accordingly.
The present war fleet of Uncle
Sam numbers somewhere abc it :' ’
cialt, classified as follows: Eir-t
--class batth siilps. 24 secqnd-i
I*, first-class cruisers 15; seennd
i i lass. 3. third-class. H. gunboat*
■? I monitors. H'. destroyers. 1
torpedo boats. 35. siibmarin ■
k>
■ rennii '', ollb i s and m <»•
52,'>00.
