Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-28
written for the Morgan Comfy RkruDLteAN.
Pleasure and Duty.

farmer can rest from his labors. And
with the fruits Of his toll jingling in
his pockets, face the winter months
without fear or misgiving.
Providence has again blessed this,
our glorious land, with another boun-
,iful harvest. The wall Of the pessi-
mist, whose croakings in the early
summer, rcverberated from coast to
coast (chicfly for the purpose of aid
ing stock Manipulation have not
materialized. The smiling fields.
the fruitful orchards, the productive
vineyards have yielded abundant
crops to the sturdy agriculturist, farm
er and rancher, whose pockets are
now jingling with the proceeds OF
the eight billion dollar harvest, which
is given to Kim as a reward OF cease
less and faithful toll.
The abundant harvest has not only
forever laid the panic bogy of 1907
and the saunt specter of hunger,
which followed in its trail in 1908,
bringing misery and suffering to so
many thousands of the unemployed
in the cities during those two years,
but it has %quickened the pulse of
every industry and enterprise in the
land. The whirring wheels of the
factory. the ring of the anvil, the roar
OF the forge, the blast of the furnace
and the snort of the construction
train, once more reverberate in every
corner of the land and every artery
Of business is pulsating with the life
giving currents of a new era of in
dustrial expansion and healthy pros
perity.
The arm chair philosopher and the
sleek a~pologists for the blunderings
and crimes of political and financial
pirates, will tell you that panics are
unavoidable and that the farther the
economic pendulum swings to the
side Of prosperity, SO surely will its
momentum carry it back in the other
direction of want. misery and suffer-
ing. History supports this theory to
some extent but the theory, sc far as
this country is concerned. is absolute
ly fallacious. With eighty millions
Of virile, energetic, enterprising
American citizens inhabiting a coun-
try of inc xhaustiblc resources, pro-
vided by nature with every conceiv-
able article of use and luxury neccs-
sary for the support and comfort OF
its people, there is no excuse for
panics or hard times.
The only legitimate excuse for a
commercial cataclysm would be a
succession of bad harvests. or war.
plague, pestilence and disaster, which
would rob the nation of its manhood,
independence, vigor and spirit.
Panics are due to that political in
difference and the resultant graft and
dishonesty which is the curse of our
country. Every man and woman
should take an interest in politics, a
SAINT and sensible interest, and ac-
luire a thorough knowledge of all
political and economic problems be.
fore the country today, and they
should also acquire a thorough know
ledge Of the men they trust with the
conduct Of municipal, state and ma.
tional affairs. g.
Politice has become the business o,
the few, aud our government, which
was intended to be a national govern.
meDt. is run largely in the interests
of a class, and it is the wild striving
OF this class to acquire wealth. nc
matter how, ven to the plunging o.
the nation in the abyssal depths o
starvation, ruin and misery. thai
$ panics, permitting the hog {,
priv lege to run its swinish nose into
co.rfc and leaislat,,res ~roofinn NJ III.