The Holly chieftain., 1912-09-20
A Few Minutes
With
Thinking Men.

Chauncey NJ. Depew. - Conditions
were never brighter in the United States.
The crops are all phenomenal while
Europe has q shortage. The balance of
trade in our favor next year will surely
be $500, ,OOO, 600. This state of affairs
makes business politics proof. | believe
We are entering on the greatest period of
ever enjoyed.
G. M. Hubbard The autoist does not
love Nature-his bent is mechanical; his
fad is wheels. Motion has infatuated
him. We can think of wheat, alfalfa,
sunshine, trees and birds. He thinks of
crank shafts, carbureters, spark. plugs,
and non-skiddins, anti.skiddo appIi-
ances. The Law OF Compensation exists.
You own the landscape he has only a
right. Of way. Honk! Honk! Keep to the
right, you lobster.
W. J. Bryan.-There is not biz
church in New York City that does not
harbor men who juggle in the stock
market and who bet on the prices of
what people raise. These men make
gambling respectable in this country and
do not have TO 70 out of the church to do
it. They are the men who are doing
harm in this country and the difficulty in
reaching the small criminal is due to the
fact that we stand in awe OF the big ones. .
Would that we had in the pulpits through.
out this land men like Elijah to speak
out and rebuke wickedness.
J. W. Kelly.-The total expenditure of
American citizens in foreign lands last
year amounted to the STAGGERING sum Of
$+OO, 600, 700. This vast sum spent was
needed and needed badly at home. Busi-
ness has not been so good in any quarter
that we can afford to bestow this generous
bounty on foreign lands, however needy
they may be. The bulk of this vast sum
spent in foreign travel might be spent in
this Trans Mississippi region If tourists
were persuaded that they ought to see
America first before going abroad. Ev.
cry dollar spent out OF this country is
gone and lost forever to the infinite harm
of this great west.
William Garside. Ever since can re.
member people who have been warning
US about the sin of wasting time and since
time BEGAN this fatheriy advice has been
handed down to the coming generation.
II is important, of course, but it should
not be worked into an excuse for over
work. Industry is great institution,
but the time one does not devote to it is
not necessarily wasted. On the contrary,
some men waste the time at work, al
though not many. 1t is the time outside
Of work which is likely to be wasted or
worse. Devoted to healthful pastime out.
doors or to good books or plays or mu-
sic within, it may be as well spent as any
part of the working day and more help
full in the long run. but plain loafins
breeds that idle mind for which the devil
is the well-known employment agent.
Elias Nj. Ammons. Until Mr.. Roose-
yelt became president it was always a
we'll settled proposition that all Of the
resources Of the state, including the
water, belonged to the citizens Of the
state and all Of the older states were
built upon this proposition. Roosevelt
started out with the theory that all of
the resources belonged to the teneral
government, He was forced to abandon
his claim upon the water, but under the
&uise of conservation both the admins.
tration of Roosevelt and TAFT have
worked upon the idea that the resources,
both vegetable and mineral, should be
exploited for the benefit of the federal
government and that the state was not
entitled to any particular advantage. In
my opinion the only escape from the
policy lies in change of administration
and the CO operation Of all western states
in re.establishius the old policy that the
natural resources belong to the citizens
Of the state to acquire and develop under
the laws made by congress.
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