Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1900-01-30

nantty az too potent 70 be sileuCt or
Inverted by the selfish devices of man.
As nature thruont its vast realm seek the
shortest 1uuts to results. 50 vii comerc,
foloing the admonition of broader views,
demand evrywher the shortest paths 10
reward. National and naro legislativ
restrictions must CIV way to NOR enlight-
end policies that vii promote freer CO.
mercial interiors. The xtortionate, in
satiat jackals of trade must retire from
bisnes, as the government must. also ceas
leyying its unjust FACTIONS, and pro-
dncers. whether in field or factory, vii
then, by juster methods, reeevesthe full
reward of their laborand not beforced to
divide with thos who toll not neither do
tina spin :, but liv as the vampire. The
vampirel How he invades evry depart
ment of human activitiesI we find him
in church and state, in politix and reli-
gion, in the social world, and nowher
NOR asertivly than in the field of comerc
and bisnes in al of their multfarius ram
ifcations and relations. wher he is seen
xacting usurius profits and unernd gain.
in evrything he tuches. Wherever found
he sux the lifeblud of the producer and
heaps hevy burthens upon the wages and
incums of tae consumer. Think what
calamity the credit-giving vampire has
rought siucehe hashad sway in the world /
If his ledgers for only the past century
wer collected in one spot tina wud pile up
hier than any mountain peak, and the
blaze which wud ascend in its destruction
wud be fed by folios who's blalx records
counted its bankrupt victims and broken
homes by millions. What holocaust of
rex and ruin Yet this hoary-lived mon
ster is still permitted to rails his flag in the
thorofareso of trade, trapping the unwary in
his delusiv tolls We raketers will still
continu however to fite the despoiler, and
if we ar tru to our principls the twentieth
century vii find him among therepudiated
evils and curses of the past, at thaut of
which humanity viii shuder with horor.
The seeds of the great Declaration of
1916, thru tung and pen, by sail and
steam, hav ben conveYd to al peples, and
!" manifest destiny has within recent
date seen the flag of the Republic carried
triunfantly by gallant tars and soldiers to
distant lands and climes. and the isles of
the great Pacific Sea llav becum a conner
cial chain of freedoms sons, even to the
far Orient wher the crescent for ages has
ben the emblem of imperial power which
has bard its gates to intercours agenst al
the outer world. Befor the twentieth
century shal llav reacht its zenith the
Yung comercial giant of the western world
will hav gaind welcum entrance into the
the iner courts of that centuries-seald
xclusion and her ships viii weigh anchor
in al the harbors, while her flag will be
unfurld in al the ports of the eastern
empires as. thru her broad and liberal
policy, the open dor invites al comers
from evry land to share with eqal opor-
tunity the fruits of onest enterprise, while
al peples vii breathe fire and glad that
each and evry toiler wherever born vii
get an onest days wages for an onest
days work, with the onest dollar for rich
and por alike.
Such is the outlook for the twentieth
century. Is their place for the racketer
here7 Whynot2 Who lis NOR wideawake,
NOR enterprising than he! Who morredy
to seize the passing oportunity and lay hold
of the good things oferd on evry hand, as
with the redy cash he asks no favors but
commands the rock bottom values the world
over. Then who so near the masses as he
who gives his wares for onest gain and
takes not al he can get but givs al that
fair dealing will aford Theristhen much
space for US among the favord ones and
we will take good care to ocupy it, plant
ing our standards wherever onest dealing
is welcomd as a public blessing.
Looking back over the batlefelds of
the past generation, it is easy endf to trace
the lines that hav led to comercial fame
and the counties hosts that fe1 by the way
side, many in the prime Of life but most
in the autum and winter of age. Itis not
hard to folio the uneven winding road to
Sc at glance the awful mistakes of the
vast majorities who Preferd to take the
big profits and felt fortune slip from their
nervles grasp. insted of sweeping over
the steel rails. the near qik way. clos mar