The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-24
rHE COUNTRY rs All RIGHT.
Nothing the Matter with II nut SLOW
business and scarcity OF work.

busfttss anu NtnFcNy VI WoThs
To THE EDITOR or THE suN-sr: Great
news! The country is all right; Redheld
has said So ON with the ghost
fined or course It would have
been a trine more satisfactory to the
public IL that colossal statesman the Sec
rotary OF Commerce had given some tan
gible evidence and proof OF his statement
that business conditions are highly salts
factory: but to do this he would have
found 1t necessary to interrogate the bank
ers, manufacturers. railroad officials and
business men in general; and inasmuch
as these are all discredited and in bad
odor with the present Administration how
could we expect him to seek or accept in
formation from them? Moreover. these
men. all being In conspiracy to create
fictitious hard times and put the Admins
tration in n hole, their evidence would be
prejudlced and worthless.
To be sure, our present Executive and
his Kaleidoscope Cabinet are in ONCE by
the grace and effort OF n lot OF these men,
who perhaps imagined they still held some
title in the property they had put out
OF their hands but II they should call at
the White House now they might see
hanging on tho wall beautiful motto,
done In cardboard and worsted. which
reads as follows. ~ am Sir Oracle, and
when ope my lips let no dog bark"
Yes, the country is all right; the noun
tains and rivers are still with us: the
crops are going to be tremendous, unless
some new form Of legislation Is devised
TO blight them; and the baseball season
is here. why repine? We admit the fact,
which has been carefully concealed from
the Secretary OF Commerce and his asso-
clates. that there are some hundreds OF
thousands of men out OF employment; fig
ures, which sometimes lie. inform us
that exports are decreasing and imports
increasing IN geometrlcal ratio; and
mills and factories are closing down or
worKing part time but aside from "a few
little thugs like that everything is all
right.
Having just taken a ten thousand mile
trip through twenty-Onc States, ! am In
eNpresslbly shocked to have to report
great increase In the criminal classes.
Men who had heretofore borne a good rep
utation are now deliberately plotting TO
undermine their own business and reduce
their profits to the vanishing point. Work.
lngmen who have been steadily employed
for years are on a hunger strike" their
object undoubtedly to create "A psychology
cal panic for their own base ends.
That arch consprator Mr., Simmons or
the simmons Hardware Company has the
temerity to suggest that 1T would be
good thing TO let business alone for a
while until It can get It's breath. But the
arguments these people use are mani
testify transparent and trivial. Some OF
them complain of the tariff because the
materials they import for manufacture
carry a higher duty than that placed on
the finished product of the foreign manu-
facturer. Others say that 1t isn't fair to
put them in jail for restraint OF trade
while the labor unions are exempt from
the law and can boycott and ruin "A mans
business without let or hindrance. Stin
- I.sg,.
has not decreased and that tho Admins
tration Is spending more than did Its ras-
cally predecessors.
But let us stop and think OF the things
we have to be thankful for. Hard work
ing men may now take long vacation.
The Chahtauqua season Is about to open.
and men may listen, for consideration,
to the honeyed words Of our thrifty Sec
rotary OF State. The idle rich. who are
the cause of all our troubles. will be pur-
sued by the Secretary of the Treasury.
shod In gum shoes and wearing mask
and carrying n dark lantern, who will pry
open their strong boxes and ransack their
bureau drawers in an endeavor to wiring
a larger income tax from these malefac-
tors. The Secretary OF Commerce viii issue
daily bulletins on this prosperity OF the
clock Industry in Connecticut. and the
gentle Huerta from his distant point OF
vantage will continue TO instruct us In
diplomacy.
or course everything Is all right, ex-
cepting that treason IL abroad In the land
and should be promptly punished; and
among those who should first be placed
behind the bars Is that sorry wag who
In speaking OF the Administration said
It was like the sick man who was thought
to have brain fever. but the doctor de-
cided that there was no foundation for
the report. ARTHUR +. kicE
NRw YORK. juno 23.