Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-10
N PROSPERITY | !
Director Of the Mint Roberts eau.
tions the People Against Reek-
less Speculation.
Quiet, Conservative Business on
Firm Basis Will Keep the
Times Good.
The Peoples and Party's Future De.
pend Largely on Right Bust.
ness Methods.

po1u Ldrgely on hlg NJ Ousl'
ness Methods.
Special to Times Repu blican.
Des Moines, Nov. 10-George FL Rob-
erts, director of the mint, when asked
concerning the future of the republi lean
party and the results of the election
upon the business interests OF the
country, took a long look ahead and
cautioned people against rushing into
speculative ventures. Mr. Roberts re-
CARDS the sound money democrats who
have helped to win this victory as an
Important element in the future of the
republican party. He believes the par
lty must do something to satisfy them.
"Our people have straight road
ahead of them for four years more.
There is nothing to fear but the perils
that lurk in prosperity itself" said Mr..
Roberts. 1T must not be for a day
forgotten that there are such perils.
and that every prosperous period has
developed them and finally succumbed
7 TO them. Business is now in a healthy
condition. The check given by the
campaign has done good rather than
harm. The danger now is that with the
check removed there will be a rush into
! speculative ventures. Our people could
go on Indefinitely, fully and profitably
lemployed, creating and amassing
wealth by their labor and exchanges.
but if they all attempt 10 get rich by
short cuts they will fall into the
bitches with which the short cuts
abound. If they will be content to in
4 vest what they have and not create a
mass of Indebtedness they will be safe
Every man who goes in debt to buy
something on the theory that it Will go
higher Should understand now that he
lis engaged in the arecarious expert
iment of pouring gasoline from the can
4 on dangerous blaze. The bankers
and leaders of business sentiment have
4 a heavy responsibility to the country.
4 This is a good time to pick out prl-
4 dent banker and tie up to him. j do
4 NOT mean that conditions are alarming
II On the contrary, u mean that conditions
Il are so favorable to continued and un-
paralleled prosperity that men are
IHlikelv TO become reckless and to con-
5sider the coed profits of legitimate
business too small for them. II they do
ithey Will come to wreck.
. The republican party has the cleo
ition Of 1900 behind ii and that of 1904
fin front. Nine rejoicing republicans
tout of ten il asked today what they
think of 1904 will say that they fear the
/. pendulum Will then be ready to swing
4 the other way. And yet when all al
llowance is made for the inclination OF
many voters TO change about. the re-
publican party has some great adyan-
ltages today which ought to be lasting
d 1t is today recognize zed as the party Of
Il administrative capacity. 1t is the par
,tty of sane ideas, the safe party. 1t has
Il glreceived magnificent accessions in ths
ghpast four years from the best class o.
ivoteTs in the democratic party ant
II The democratic party does not ye
realize what it has permanently los
slby Organism. The polls that have beel
taken in the colleges OF the country ar
sIof great significance. The splendid pro
i ,siicession of young nen out of the instt
: itutions of learning and into active lif
{ has been an almost solid reinforcement
e for the republican party. They hay
2 cast their first Votes with it. The:
I. have looked to it to save the countr
from dishonor. They have rejoiced i
q Its victories. They are in sympath
!. with Its wrile patriotism. They wi
& not readily leave ii.
e And so with thousands of men VIII
have been democrats in the pas
L They have found so much in the de
\ mocracy of Bryan TO fear and 50 muc
"a in their new associations to make ther
. feel at home that thousands of ther
& are ready to make their permanen
6 home in the republican party.
/. ITO win in 1904 the republican part
must keep both these classes of voter:
s 1t must continue To attract the liberal
/. lily educated first-voters 1t must tax
e account of he new position and ne'
4 aims of the American people in III
' markets Of the world. and their ne
ri confidence in themselves. For the firs
i; hundred years our people were occt
g ipied in Internal development; now the
q are looking across both oceans for ne
Fields for their enterprise We hay
Preached the poin. where, instead I,
having all our thoughts cenTeredi Q
= how to keep foreigners out of our MAJ
is ket. we are most interested in how
(, get into foreign mark cts.
N IN obody is going to ask the repui
j lican party TO suddenly abandon i
g historic doctrine Of protection but
le is time to put the emphasis on rec
il procity' and declare for fair trads
n. The reciprocity treaties that have bee
d negotiated by this administration ar
d which are hnngSup in the senate ougi
10 to be approved, and that policy furth
e developed. 1t is inevitable that Il
lie new spirit now extant in this COUNT
n will desire and demand general Pc
licy designed to promote intercou1s
and commercial relations with Il
world. Nowhere does the spiritlof col
= fidence and self-reliance and worl
ambition run so high as in the repu
lican party, and l for one earnest
- hope its leadership will interpret tho
- aspirations broadly and respond
them.
THE tariff should be revised by
OF friends. The duties which by reason
Of the development of our industries ha.
rt become superfiuous should be remov
ty or reduced and thus eliminated frc