Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-01-01
IL. J. JOHNSON, Publisher.
THE NEW YEAR.

With this issue of the Herald the
new year, 1903, is ushered into exist
ence. Every indication, qualified by
exceptions, to which all human judg-
ment and prediction is subject, points
to continuance and ever increase in
the almost abnormal prosperity which
has been the good fortune of the Amer
lean people during the old year just
closed, now part of our past history.
So great has that prosperity been, SO
unbroken and so unruffied in it's course
that, individually and as a people we
are prone to fail in our appreciation
and estimation of it's full and real val
ue. Bald statistics are dry reading,
and at their best lay bear to our view
spirit of our national life Suffice it is
to emphasize the fact, that for all time,
for veal or woe, we have taken our
place in the front rank of the oldest
and greatest nations of the earth.
Goods of American manufacture, i'm
plements and machinery, which are
the material expression of the best
and the highest in human skill and en-
genuity, have invaded and secured a
permanent hold in the markets of the
world. In Siberia, in Sunny Italy, in
China and Japan, American "drum-
mers' and American tradesmen have
established lasting demands for our
products. The demand means, as an
inevitable result and one as memorable
as the law of supply and demand, that
we must buy Or exchange manufact-
ured articles or natural products from
and with those to whom we sell, other
wise eventual bankruptcy and ex-
haustion of the resources and the loss
of our new customers must follow as
sure as the sun rises and sets. This is
reciprocity which the American people
and the Republican p arty, which is
always the exponent of constructive
and progressive Americanism S
espousing and will surely adopt as
fixed policy. With the presence and
far-sighted patriotic stat esmanship
which is a fixed attribute of our ex-
cellent president, Theo. Roosevelt,
this thought is driven home on every
occasion where he speaks and is plain
and pregnant truth.
During the year which is now closed
with the shroud of the scared and yell
low leaf of the past, in our temporary
and permanent possessions, slowly but
surely, the benign influence of Ameri-
can liberty and good government has
found a resting place. Surely none
but the hopeless pessimist will fail to
see aught but good and incalculable
blessing to all concerned as a result of
the chance or destiny or whatever one
may choose to call it, which has I'M
furled Americas flag of freedom over
those far-of isles and peoples.
In all the prosperity to which we
have referred, our own state of Wis
consin and prosperous old Grant coun-
ty have fully shared. Hence have the
citizens of our home country been
more happy and fire. from anxiety for
the future.
Not alone may and should we rejoice
in our industrial prosperity, for we
have further, less personal, unselfish
and higher ground for mutual congrat-
ulatiOn. In spite of the ,rOaker'S wall.
our national and individual ideas and
standard of conduct are ever growing
higher and less selfish. The work of
our churches and schools is telling up
on our home and individual life to it's