Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-09-05
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A MESSAGE TO MEN.

Under this head the Dry Goods Economist of the
most Influential trade journals of the country gives some
advice to the people of the nation which should be alb
sorbed for the general good 1t is booster editorial of
the best SORT founded upon facts and conditions which
convincing Of the benefits to to this nation from
present conditions We glad to give Capital News
readers opportunity to read and study it. It as fol
lows
'These are days when men.
, The craven hearted are skulking and falling back
they finding for going to the rearthey have
no stomach for ight-they are licked.
1.-The real men of America are going about their affairs
they have given up their VACATIONS they the firing
line of big business and their courage and patriotism are
IN evidence every hour of the day.
"They are not lying down-they standing up and
they will maintain and improve place in the sun Of
commerce and industry.
1.-The way locate the real of business these days
is to listen to their talk and to how they act
The real men of business have not pulled down the
flag they have not quit advertising; they have not called
in their saesmen they have locked the factory door
Yes, they have in many Instances pulled their belt
straps little tighter They have perhaps curtailed
and reserves-and gained greater efficiency thereby
But haul down the flag and lie down?
"Never!
"Let us look about.
A nation of a hundred million people with an I'M
trammeed working organization and the smallest per
capita burden OF military expenses in the civilized world
The nation with the greatest internal trade and self
contained having practically every essential of life
within its domain.
Inc naJlOn tnat has length breadth and thickness
It's resources, with its COAL its own ron its own
gran It's own forests its cotton and with absolute
freedom of internal commerce.
eve have flexible fiscal system that has made finan-
cial panic impossible.
"The ingenuity of the American always best displayed
in time of STRESS will find substitute for every needed
article that enters into daily life and which we for
mery secured from Europe.
eve will continue to buy from England, France and
Germany all the things that need which they can send
to
eve will sell to the world all the things that we grow
and make which the rest of the world buy from us
''There whose middle name is Cancel
alton
"They have run to after 'phonng, wiring and
writing the people they deal with stop Everything
EThe gutter who stops his business campaign reck-
essy is the who trades recklessy He the anti
conservative He lacks pose and balance and he will be
the first to go under when pressure comes
1.-The trade routes of the world are being redrawn
The great continent to the south of beckons and
I'VE want you to take hides CATTLE Coffee our
rubber and we will buy your textiles your machinery
your shoes, your hardware your oil and all the other
things that you make that we need
The machinery of distribution is the requirement of
the moment-and we making rapid progress.
The Panama canal is open cargo ships of great ca
pacity passing through the great waterway.
The west coast of South Africa is at our doors.
'sThe wheat of California the lumber of Oregon have
pathway to the Atlantic.
''The greatest blessing that civilization has known in
decade the year that brings to Europe it's
saddest blow.
''We depore the warthe greatest cataclysm created
by man that the world has known. For this is man.