Arizona republican., 1912-02-06
Give the Patient a Rest.

Give the Patient Rest.
 1T you will take the trouble to read the reports Of the Dun or Bradstrcct agencies you will find that the coun- try is far from being in a satistac- tory condition in a business way. You will find that trade conditions are considerably less satisfactory than they were year ago. You will lind that railroad earnings have fallen off, that in a good many instances divi- dends have been passed or reduced, that construction work is below the average. that large numbers of work ing people are out Of employment. You will also find that in pretty near Iy every section of the country bus mess men find it difficult To get suf- ficicnt capital from the banks In other words there is d Iessening of credits. In common parlancc, money is tight"
 Now, there must be reason for this condition. and it IS hard to be Iieve that it is d physical reason. There has been the normal increase in production. Crops are close to the average. The mines have yielded their usual quota Of wealth Neither famine nor pestilence has interfered with progress. Men are just as anX- ious to work as ever they were and the business spirit of the country is tist as anxious as ever il was 10 carry through its enterprises. What, then. is the matter?
 The explanation is found in one word-distrust And the lamentable thing about it all is that it is dis trust founded solely upon accusa- ton. This distrust is thing born of political expediency. of the desire for self aggrandizement IL is born of the preachments of men who seem willing to go to any length to advance their own personal and political for tunes. There seems, when one an aIyzcs tine question. to be almost mol excuse for it
 II Is not that there are no evils or| that such evils as exist. should not be corrected No sane man will argue thus. The truIble is We have listen ed too long to irresponsible prophets and have chosen to believe the worst that has been said. And then "" have gone about the correction of abuses by brass band methods and in such way that the business world has been shocked until the man with money Co invest has rcfrained from investment Instead, he has put his money in his pocket and is waiting for the skies to clear.
 IL is all very well to crack the whip of virtuous rage over the head of big business" and predatory wealth" It is all very well to denounce the criminal rich" and threaten rcprisal But don't you know that ignorant threats lr1Bhtcn the IlputidNt ihN'9 tor just as well as the big investor? And after all it is upon the thou- sands of moderate investors that the prosperity of this country and the stability Of the business world very largely depend.
 Everybody remembers the insur- ance investigations In those inves- tigations the most glaring wrongs were uncovered and the most glaring abuses revealed. Yet there was no panic and the insurance companies are today on a stronger footing than ever And the reason is that the i'm vestigation was conducted judicially 1 and with a total absence of brass band methods.
 Probably nine men out of every ten in this country believe there is a dangerous concentration of capital in the United States and that this con centration is growing all the time. But what is the truth? Why. if the of ficial reports of the companies them | selves and of the Interstate Commerce