The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-09-23
NO CLOUDS IN SIGHT
COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY SAYS
COUNTRY ALL RIGHT.
THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD
Striking Article In North American
Review That Is Attracting Wide
Attention.

The attention or business ana pro-
| fessional men In all portions of the
| country has been attracted TO strik'
| ingly strong article by Col. George
Harvey In the September issue of the
| North American Review In which the
| writer takes view of the greatest
hopefulness for the future of America
and Americans The article Is en-
titled "a Plea for the Conservation OF
Common Sense" and 1t is meeting
with the cordial approval of business
men of all shades of political opinion
throughout the entire country. In
part, Colonel Harvey says:
"Unquestionably a spirit of unrest
dominates the land. But. If 1t be
| true that fundamentally the condition
of the country is sound, must we
| necessarily succumb to dependency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before clouds
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyZe conditions, search
| for causes, find the root of the dis
tress. which even now exists only in
mems minds, and then, after the
American fashion. apply such rem
edies as seems most likely to produce
beneficent results?
| Capital and Labor Not Antagonistlc.
The Link that connects labor with
capital is not broken but we may not
deny that it is less cohesive than it
should be or than conditions war
rant Financially. the country is
| -, haf L., to n i-
tory. Recovery from panic so
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt and compare
| lively complete. The masses are
practically free from debt. Money is
held by the banks in abundance and
rates are low.
Why, then. does capital pause
upon the threshold of investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain.
1t awaits adjustment of the relations
| of government to business. The
sole problem consists of determining
how government can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
OF interests, on the one hand, and the
whole people. on the other, protect
saving the former from mad assaults.
The solution is not easy to find
| for the simple reason that the stu
alton is without precedent. But is
not progress being made along sane
and cautious lines?
Conserve Common Sense.
is not the present, as we have
seen. exceptionally secure? What,
| then, of preparations for the future?
J Patriotism is the basis of our insti
| tutions And patriotism in the minds
| of our youth Is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring. 1t
is taught In our schools. A new
course has been added-a course in
| loyalty MethodiCally. our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries. conventions and elections.
| how to discriminate between qualifiCa-
tions of candidates and. finally, how
to govern as we'll as serve. They are
taught TO despise bribery and all
forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creel. which they are
made to know by heart, is not com
| pick. 1t Is simple but comprehen,
sive. no less beautiful in diction than
lofty in aspiration. These are the
| pledges which are craven upon their
| memories
"As it is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, SO 1t Is coward.
| ly for any citizen not to contribute
his share 10 the well.being of his
country. America is my own dear
land; she nourishes me. and | will
love her and do my duty TO her,
whose child. servant and civil soldier
am.
AS the health and happiness OF
my body depend upon each muscle
| and nerve and drop OF blood doing
its work in its place, so the health
and happiness OF my country depend
mon each citizen doing his work IL
| bis place.
u hese young citizens are om
hostages to fortune, Can we not
safely assume that the principles ami
mating their lives augur well for the
0ermanency of the Republic? Whel
! before have the foundation stones
| Of continuance been laid with sucl
care and promise of durability?
The future, then. is bright And
the present? But one thing is need
full, No present movement is more
laudable than that which looks tC
conservation of natural resources
But let us never forget that the great
est inherent resource of the Amer
lean people is Common Sense. lie
that be conserved and applied With
out cessation, and soon II will b,
found that all the Ills of which VIC
COMPLAIN but know not of are only
such az attend upon the growing
pains Of great and blessed country