The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-06-04
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN tn
WHITE HOUSE.

In response to the request of the
representatives of the great manu-
certain radical legislation being urged
upon congress by the president be
abandoned for the present in order
to give the business of the country q
chance to adjust itself to the new
conditions already created by the ad-
ministration, in support of their re-
quest referring to the present depress-
ed and unsettled condition of trade
President Wilson declined to be in
fuenced by their representations and
said that
"Whie he was aware of the present
depression in business, there was album
dant evidence that it was purely psy-
Geological and that there was no ma
terial condition or substantial reason
why the business of the country should
not be in the most prosperous and ex-
panding condition.
What an answer from the head Of
this nation to the men who have made
the United States the foremost in
dustrial nation in the world through
their own industry and genius coupled
with laws designed to encourage and
protect them in preference to the for
eigner These practical business men
who speak from personal experience
and positive knowledge which admits
of no theorizing, are told by this pre-
sumptous professor that they are
wrong; that while there is depression
In business. 1t has no connection with
legislation enacted or proposed; it is
merely psychological phenomenon
an hallucination which has taken pos
session Of the minds of business men
and wage earners, and which has no
material condition or substantial rea
son" for its existence.
A few weeks ago two of the mines
of this district closed down indef-
nitely, this action being largely due to
the low price Of lead. The low price
of lead was due to the operation of
the natural law of supply and demand. |
the demand at this time being very
weak because the people of the coun-
try are not painting and plumbing |
their houses. The reason they are not |
painting and plumbing their houses.
and thus keeping up the consumption
of lead, is because thousands of wage
earners are out of employment due
to the importation of foreign made
goods to take the place of those which
had formerly been manufactured at
home, and the farmer is not painting
his house and barn because he has !,
suddenl" been brought into direct COM |,
petition with the foreign farmer and is
suffering from a dun market and low
prices for his products. Thus it is
seen that the wage Garner or farmer
way back east who is forced through !,
foreign competition to defer painting |,
or plumbing his house exerts direct g
influence upon the material welfare c
of the miner delving into the depths of =
the mountains out here in Idaho q
OF course in the higher realms of In
reason which has been reached by the l.,
president. these efforts to explain and II,
remedy unsatisfactory industrial con- Ia
1itions by dealing with tangible facts II
hat confront us in our every day -
experience no doubt appear crude and @
insciontific; but to most of us pay day :,
n one form or another is still the red :,
etter day Of the week, month or year n,
ma when anything comes up to elimi- !,
late 1t from the calendar we in our ~
'iihd ignorance and crude processes of p,
'easonlng seek remedy through leg =,
slatioh or by attempting to profit by d,
Experience. Some day perhaps we NAV II,
'caie those intellectual heights from n
which all these vulgar annoyances =,
'uch as stoppage of the pay check. un- III
'aiu grocery bills and poorly clad chill d,