The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-24
mo- 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 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 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
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 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 III it's his
tory. Recovery from a panic so
%
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
I 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 stu
alton is without precedent. But is
not progress being made along sane
and cautious lines?
Conserve Common Sense.
I rs 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 &c Iinlz 1alx
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-
/ tons 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 creed, 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:
LAS it is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, so it is coward
! ly for any citizen not to contribute
/ his share to the well-being of his
! country. America is my own dear
/ land; she nourishes me, and 1 will
] love her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant and civil soldier
1 am.
"As the health and happiness of
nv body deDend uDOO each muscle
4 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
full. No present movement is more
laudable 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.