The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-30
COUNTRY SHOULD REST
Concluded From First Page.)

cent OF the prosperity of the country
comes from the ext nsions of rail-
roads into new sections and the I'M
provements and g,na rial building up
Of existing railroad properties to take
care of the growing commerce. We
will take the products ot our lumber
mills and steel manufact ing plants
as an illustration 1t is conservative
ly estimated that not less that Is
per cent of the entire lumber PRODUCT
of the country has for seevral years
gone into the construction of new
railroads and extensions to existing
ones, the maintenance of the railr ada
and the manufacture of cars and en-
Gines The output of finished rr
ducts of iron and steel during til
year 1907 was over Is million tors
and of this output over 80 per cent
was purchased by the railroads. Pr
tcally all of this is now shut off. T.
you will htink for moment of til
important influence which all IT,
has upon the genera; welfare of the
public, as well as its influence up
the industrial and other enterpris
Of the country, you will understand
why the lumber business of today
does not exceed 80 per cent of what
it was twelve months ago, although
the producers of lumber are willing
to sell their product at much less
than when the panicky days com
menced.
Big Broad-Gauge Man.
At this time above all others we
must look for successor to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who shall be a big.
broadgauge man. The commercial,
industrial, agricultural and laboring
interests through their representative
organizations should dictate, in
broad comprehensive manner the
business planks of the platforms Of
both parties fairly protecting both
the public and the railroads. These
interests should ask the prospective
to endorse or reject the
plauks so framed in order that the
will know how they stand
President Roosevelt, through his in
will and power to control
has instlled in the minds of the peo-
pie of this country and the rest of the
world the important influence of the
president in our national affairs. We
should not fail to realize that the
president will in the future occupy a
position so prominent in the eyes Of
me world that his individual policy
will have direct and important
learing upon the business develop
nent of the nation Therefore. as we
ire on the eve of n presidential eiec-
ion, this is a vital question for us
o solve. We should, whether Re.
,ublicans or Democrats, look well to
he policy of each of the candidates
or nomination By our party and con
ider carefully who is the safest man.
his is question which every
thoughtful voter must consider, hav-
ng in mind our present. depressed
and anxiety for the future.
The claims of our two political par
les differentiate but slightly. The
leaders assert that the
resent Republican parties were
tolen from them, and that they stand
Or and endorse them as they relate
, corporations If a man announces
imself as a Democrat or Republ
IN he generally follows il with an
yplanation of the kind of Democrat
r Republican he is.
For Honesty and Conservatism.
Thinking people know that such
lslness methods as have been ey-
1sed and heralded all over the world
II which we must assume our share
responsibility are OF the past and
at under existing laws a repetition
impossible. As this has been ac-
mplished it is only common Justice
cur countrys business interests to
I'VE the spokesman of the nation
r the next four years announce pub
ly that we are going to stand for
Il enforce honest methods and
und business principles, and that
tn unfair manipulators of corpora
ms and extreme radicalism and agi
ion have been eXpunged from the