Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-13


New York, April 13.-"The country
is all right Conditions will adjust
themselves, and there will be no stag
nation or halt in prosperity on account
of the presidential campaign next
year"
This is an epitome of the opinions
expressed by Henry H. Rogers in the
courseio of an extended interview pub
lished here.
while we have had a serious dis
turbance in the security market" said
Mr. Rogers, Il believe that present
conditions are bound to right them
selves. believe the country is all
right, and that the confidence of the
people generally will be speedily re-
stored. The country has increased so
vastly and the production Of wealth has
gone ahead SO enormously over what
1t was few years ago that cannot
believe there will be any serious inter-
ference with the tide OF prosperity the
whole nation has experienced for
number Of years past.
THE earth is yielding wealth as
never before. Not only have vast guam
titles of gold and other metals been
taken from the ground in recent years.
copper. iron, COAL etc., but diversified
ton in agricultural products has had
an important part in bringing a new
and more permanent prosperity to the
people.
Take the case of the Red river
country of the north. When wheat was
so nearly the sole crop raised UP there
that 1t formed the major part OF the
freight hauled by the Milwaukee road,
bad crop year meant ruin for the
farmers and great loss to the railroad.
Today the relation that wheat bears
to the total freight traffic OF this road
is so per cent less than it was twenty
years ago; ruinous crop failures do not
occur along the line, and the road Is
uniformly. prosperous. understand the
south h similarly learned the lesson
Of di cation, with the result that
yo, were so prosperous in that
inn, section, and that the same
con exist in the west
.'Hps.. .3ody Is living on a scale diff
ferent ffom that of few years ago.
JAS a rule. everybody has more money
than he had in former years, and we
all require more comforts, conyen-
fences and luxuries. We live in better
homes than our fathers did; we wear
better clothes than the generation be-
fore us; our children go to better
schools; we travel more, we have
things to eat every day that we had
only at certain seasons OF the year a
short time ago, and we have more
money in our pockets than the people
did of generation past. This means
that a greater production Of everything
is required; that the people have more
10 do, and 1t takes more workers to
accomplish what must be done.
II am a great believer in Provi-
dence. Take, for instance, the history
of the petroleum development of the
world. 1t is full of providential hap
penings. New fields have been dis
covered as fast as needed, and from
1000 barrels day in 1859 the pro-
duction has become so great can't
carry the figures in my head.
81 believe in providential happen
ings in all the affairs of men, and be-
lieye that Providence is on the side OF
this country and that everything will
work, out all right. / don't believe the
people are going to overlook the things
that make for their well-being. The
whole country has had taste of the
blessings of prosperity, and in a PROV
idential sort of way believe the peo-
pie are going to eliminate the factors
that would stand in the way of contin-
ued prosperity.
Continued agitation, the people will
see, unsettles conditions. You cannot
move loads with a team that won't
haul-with horses or mules that will
not pull together. The people must
see that settled conditions are neces-
sary for progress and development, and
/ believe that the sentiment of the
country will have so crystallized with
in a few months that there will be a
practically United demand for the
strongest conservatism in the conduct
of the government. We must have
settled conditions, and believe we will
have them"