The Green Forest tribune., 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 of business and pro- fessional men i'll all portions of the country has been attracted to a strik- ingly strong article by Col. George Harvey in the September issue of the North American Review in which the writer takes a 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 It 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 it be true that fundamentally the condition necessarily succumb to despondency, abandon effort looking to retrieYal and cringe like craYens 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. cdies as seems most likely to produce 5eneficent results?
 Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
 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 stronger than ever before in it's his tory. Recovery from panic so severe as that of three years ago was never before so prompt and compara- 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. It awaits adjustment of the relations of government to business. The sole problem consists of determining how government can maintain all even balance between aggregations of interests, on the one hand, and the whole people, on the other, protect ing the latter against extortion and saving the former from mad assaults
 The solution is not easy to find for the simple reason that the situ ation 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? 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 It is taught in our sch0olE. 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 well as serve. They are taught to despise bribery and all forms of corruption and fraud as treason. Their creed, which they are made to know by heart, is not com plex. It is simple, but comprehen. sive, no less beautiful in diction than lofty in aspiration. These are the pledges which are graven upon their memories:
 AS it is cOwardly for a soldier to run away from battle, so it is coward Y for any citizen lsot to contribute his share to the well-being of his country. America is my own dear land; she nouFishes me, and I 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 it's work in its place, so the health and happiness of my country depend upon each citizen doing his work in his place.
 These young citizens are our hostages to fortune. Can we not safely assume that the principles ami mating their lives augur we'll for the permanency of the Republic? When before have the foundation stones of continuance been laid with such care and promise of durability?
 'The future, then, is bright And the present? But one thing is need ful. No present movement is more Iaudable than that which looks to conservation of natural resources But let us never forget that the great est inherent resource of the Amer lean people is Common Sense. Let that be conserved and applied with out cessation, and soon it will be found that all the ills of which we complain but know not of are only such as attend upon the growing pains of a great and blessed country