Cañon City record., 1907-11-21

your CO-OperatlOn IN many uldtteIA Ol
public moment. That message Is from
the president. We have learned some
things recently by very trying ex-
perience for many of you, but one
from which I hope you are even now
rapidly recovering
Among other things we have learn
ed what it means to stand ready in
times OF storm and stress. We have
learned, too, more fully perhaps than
heretofore, the value of credit in the
business world, and have had brought
home to US anew the fact that it Is a
most delicate part of a most delicate
mechanism.
We have learned where weak places
were, where improper practices OBJ
tanned We have learned again the
value of cooperation. Some institu
tons which were weak were strength
ened, and what Is all important, II
any man has been guilty OF violations
of trust that makes him amenable to
the law, we may feel confident that its
process in orderly manner and regard
less of sensational incitement for or
against him. will be evoked In the in
terest OF the public.
Now that the financial storm ap-
pears to be subsiding we should turn
our attention more and more to the
relief of the country at large. One OF
the most gratifying incidents Of our
recent trouble has been the prompt
and patriotic responses of many of our
great labor organizations to the ap-
peal of employers for their co-opera-
tion.
1T Is time when every citizen
should assume his share OF the bur-
den. The boarded money should be
put back in the banks, and the eSac-
tions of bankers and merchants should
be proportioned only to actual busi-
ness necessties-to do otherwise 1t
is not only unpatriotic but unwise.
believe that II this money Of the
country wherever boarded were at
once put back to fulfill its function in
the channels OF trade there would be
within "a hours an almost complete
resumption OF business operations.
The various plans advocated for cur
rency reform must be subjected to
rigid scrutiny to the end that the citi-
Zens of every section OF the country
shall be fairly treated, their needs and
requirements consulted, and above all.
that whatever action is finally taken,
1t shall be such as to increase our
commercial standing among the ma
tons OF the world.
LAS a people we have this and many
other great problems before us. Their
solution will not be thing OF a month
or a year. We must approach them
with the determination to exercise dis
passionate judgment, to seek. as our
ultimate aim. justice as between man
and man. We must never allow any
setback to stay our progress or pros
perity. Resuscitation will not be pro-
NOTED by recrimination. The distrust
of the present will not be relieved by
a distrust of the future. A patriot
makes a better citizen than a pessl-
mist. The country Is not going back
ward. but forward-American energy
has not been destroyed by the storms
of the past
And finally we may well recall, as
peculiarly applicable to present condi-
tions, the sensible words OF recent
editorial in one OF our great newspa-
pers. This is not the time to assail
credit. but to give 1t confidence
THE need Of the hour Is to sink
prejudice and partisanship for the ma
tional good. We must restore conf
dence In men. In methods-confidence
in business-that means prosperity"