Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-09-20
Two Different Hands.

gambling, whether he keeps the
gam bling shop or Coca there az GUS
TONER to be shorn. is trembling with
fear, But the hand of the farmer doe a
not shake or trembIe. While the farm =
er's hand is frm and attends to its
work the nation need have no fear.
When a wasp is swept away from the
veranda with a cleansing broom the
wasp lmagines that the entire bull d.
ing and the universe are shaken.
When Wall street gambling inter-
ests are disturbed, when victims are
few and vatered stocks hard to sell,
the wasps of that neighborhood think
T. 1T the world is coming to an end
The cry panic, murder, horror, hard
times and starvation, as they see the
artificial millions that never existed
hiking below even the water level.
But there is no reason for the nation
to shiver. IF 1t can keep its head, show
intelligence, rid itself of a few cracked
Drained, thoughtless blusterers, CT
great many crminallv dishonest OFF,
ciHls and give little thoughta nd
brains to It's own public business, it
will not need TO worry.
What is nations wealth?
Part of that wealth is in railroads
DO Won suppose the value Of the rail-
ronds depends upon the particular
price at which lot of stock exchange
gamblers are engaged in selling the
railroad stock to each other?
No The value of the road depends
upon its condition, it's rails its work
men, It's locomotives, and above all
upon the farmers, the manufacturers
end the travelling public that use it,
and hat make its prosperity
The wealth of the United States
is in buildings, in great fertile fields,
in horses, pigs, COWS, factories, meta
in the ground and above the ground.
Have any of these things suddenly
disappeared? Do the cows die, or the
fahes drown or the potatoes rot when
Mr.. Roosevelt talks savagely for effect
to the Wall street men from whom he
WAS recestly soliciting carpaign
funds?
Not a bit of it.
The Hartman who gave money to
Mr. Roosevelt for his cam paign yes
terday and who shivers before Mr..
Roosevelt's frown today is not the
scope of the United States.
John D. RocKerfslIer, WHO formerly
'efe the country in sullen silence as
IIa built up his great monopoly, now
falls ppon the neck Of every reporter,
and talks to him until the reporter 8
fountain pen gives out. Mr.. Rocketel-
lcr IS frightened, he is shivering, his
BONDS aud stocks locked away by the
cores of millions are nominally worth
less than they were before. They will
he worth nore than ever if they can
be honestly managed and The water
ing stopped.
Rockefeller, king of United $ tates
'HfOScne, is DOlneltu, dhu TIC Pioo'S'H
disaster
But nothing has hNppened to the
national oil wells. They are still spout
ing. The great lakes of.oil beneath the
surface of the earth asbefore. The great
reservations OF natural gas are there.
The coal is in the mines, the iron,
he gold, the silver, the copper-all the
nations wealth is still where it was,
and worth as much.
Niagara F. lis pIunges downwith its
eadless wealth of sowa~ aud beauty
That waterfall hasn't dried up, and it's
power if not weakened because. few
stock brokers are shivering and yelling
murder
Cows are giving about as much milk
as they did before, and quart Of milk
is more important thing than the
price Of paper on which dishonest
stock is printed or the figures on the
,ittle strip of white paper that comes
aut Of the stock ticker.
Public schools will soon resume the
'iacaticn of millions of children.
Those children are the chief wealth Of
5he country They are iaiinitely more
inportant than any stock quotations.
Intelligent American citizens are
linking, dealing with mechanical
problems, perfectins wonderful inven-
ions. Their brains are the wealth OF
he country, not the schening, gamb-
iag brain that never earned a dollar.