Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-21
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NOW TO BUSINESS.

NOW TO BUSINESS.
We have nominated a presidential
ticket for the Republican party, tina
seems likely to win, and it is prob
able the result of The election will b.
discounted by the business interests
Of the country and that We shall have
a return of industry and revival OF
confidence, which means an enlarge.
ment of national prosperity. There
is substantial as well as a political
reason for improved business condi-
tions, and that is in the excellent
crop prospects, the nations crop being
after all the nations groundwork Of
Its riches, And in this connection we
have a National Prosperity Associa-
Ton, that is boosting for return of
prosperity, pointing out the reasons
that money should come out of its
hiding place and seek investment and
seeking to clear away the last remain
ing clouds of the panic Of last fall.
The National Prosperity Associa-
ton exchanged views a few weeks
ago, and the exchange of views was
clear and profitable The members OF
the association urged upon the presi-
dent the necessity for care, wisdom
and temperance in dealing with affairs
affecting the great business interests
OF the country, and the president in
return expressed his belief that his
work and that of congress had been
tor good and that good would come
I ont of it. The address OF the presi-
dent at that time is worthy Of preser-
walton, and was as follows:
7 am in hearty sympathy with the
avowed object of the National Prosper
ity association. It is excellent. We
have gone far in uprooting abuses
which threaten our national life.
Taken as a whole, the standard Of
honesty in our business life has been
high, and today the standard is, I
believe, beyond what it has ever been,
and this largely because we have made
determined war on the abuses that
lowered it. AS you have said, the de-
preston and stagnation from which
our country is now happily beginning
to recover were not caused by reform
legislation, but by the revelation of
shocking conditions in certain Of our
corporations, by reckless operations
in high finance, by calamity and by
certain striking, though, believe, ex-
ceptional, instances Of business and
civic dishonesty. OF course, all good
men must agree with you in your con-
domination of unwise agitation The
/ apathetic acceptance of abuses in our
governmental and business admins
trations is more dangerous than the
demagogic appeals of professional ag-
itators to class hatreds. Our national
conscience, I firmly believe. has been
i awakened. We will not and cannot
go back to the conditions which toll
Grated wrong-doing. Neither can we
afford to be led astray by those who
would embark us In a visionary and
twisted crusade against all corpora
tions, all business methods. We
should address ourselves to the faith.
full and honest observance Of the laws
OF civic righteousness. The welfare
Of all OF us can best be obtained by
striving for a policy which will pro
& mote the welfare of each Of US. we
must all cooperate in order that ben
eft may be derived from the entire
nation. Good laws make good gov
eminent; but laws are Of no avail un
a less vitalized by the people who made
them. Our recent legislation has beer
good, and 1t is to the interest OF Tho
entire country. and especially Of the
business interests, that it should be
enforced Such further regulators
legislation as is required is merely /
building upon the broad foundations
that have been laid 1t conceals III
menace to business, any more thar
that legislation which has already
been enacted. There is no need fol
agitation concerning it; there is no ex
ctse for demagogic excitement abou
It. It is as much our duty to conserve
the real rights Of property as it is tt
conserve the real rights Of labor. Thi.
We have done IN the past and this w