The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02
NATIONS CHIEFS
ALL OPTIMISTIC
From President Down, Leading
Men Hold New Year Will
Be Prosperous.
PESSIMISTS SCORED
FOR SEEING DARK SIDE
Spirit of Progress Is in the Ar
and Country Must Surely
Advance.
Bv Leased Wire TO The Tribune,

By Leased Wire 10 The Tribune,
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-The sentl-
ment is almost universal that the year
1910 will be yenr of unexampled ma
teral prosperity for the United States
and in all other ways the outlook is
unusually bright With great crops, fac
tories and mills working on Iull time,
great humanitarian movements have ia
ken on new life and vigor. All along
the line there is every reason Tor a
thoroughly hopeful view. and the
statesmen with hardly an exception
are pronounced optimists Here is what
some of the nation S leaders have to
say: "
President Taft-'sThat 1910 Will be
year of progress and prosperity seems
certain. All that is needed to make 1T
so is. for every American to do his duty
manfully'
Vice President Sherman--"W We can
all greet 1910 with cheerful hope. So
far as I can see there is no cloud on
the nation s horizon.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger-
HIt is most essential to secure SUD-
stantial return TO fundamental prin-
ciples in our republican form OF gov
eminent
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
Sometimes | run out of ciphers with
which to finish Up the statements or
che substantial production of our SOIL.
There is not much chance for the pes
simist III o country so rich as TINS, ana
] don I conjure a better wish for the
whole nation than that the pesslmlst
may find it harder than ever during
the coming year to provide satlsfac-
tory excuse for continuing in clrcula-
ton
Senator Clapp Of Minnesota An
appropriate new year s sentiment would
be to express the earnest hope that the
people Of the United States and all the
world may enjoy peace and prosperity
and that Americans may rise TO Keen
realization of the great responsibility
that will be upon them when they give
expression 70 their political opinions at
the polls and otherwise, 10 indorse the
efforts for n broad and constructive
treatment of the problems which are
before us as a nation
Senator Hughes of Colorado" While
the American people have. many prob
lens to solve. firmly believe in their
capacity 10 solve them. believe much
progress will be made during the year
n all lines.
Senator Johnson of Alabama-''T The
outlook is bright for the whole coun
try and particularly for the south. /
look for great industrial development
In my own state during 1910. ~
Senator Deliver OF Iowa Out in
nv country we raise what the rest of
the country eats and the people who
raise it are prosperiDg. / don't need
to wish them anything more of substan'
tial satisfaction in the New Year than
that the appetites Of the rest of the
world may continue good and for the
rest Of the world the hope that its ca
pacity and ability to satisfy its appe
L. hot hnp fplH 1p
their most amiable mood of intelligent
self-nterest could desire.
Senator Clay of Georgia-"1 trust
the whole country may be as happy
and prosperous as the people OF Geor'
gia.
Senator Borah of Idaho-"I hope
nobody who produces anything in this
holiday he can't afford TO take, and
that everybody may be able to afford
all the holidays he needs
Senator Pyles of Westinghouse ex
pect TO see the great Pacific coast coun-
try excel its splendid record in develop
ment which has been the wonder of the
world The people of the balance OF
wonderful empire we have on the coast
and | hope that realization will be
greatly strengthened during l9l0.'
Senator Brown of Nebraska-FT The
year 1910 will round out the first de-
cade of the new century, and | know
no more proper sentiment for the greet
ing to the New Year to wish that as it
comes with promise Of being most pros
porous Of the century, it may continue
and end with realization every day
of that promise and be succeeded by
another that shall continue the same
march to fuller realization of the
aspirations of our country
Senator Bradley of Kentucky
Americans have reason to look to 1910
with confidence. At no time in the
past have conditions been more favor
able for general happiness and pros
perity."
Senator Bourne of Oregon" Peace,
progress and prosperity, it seems to
me, is fitting watchword with which
to start off the New Year"
Senator Taylor of Tenpessee-"The
outlook is bright and / see reason to
believe that the end of the year will
be even brighter for the American peo-
ple''