The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-28
WORK WHILE OTHERS FIGHT
European War opens Great Oppor-
tunity for United States

Ebert Hubbard sees in the present
war in Europe great opportunity
for the United States to advance in
industrial prosperity. He writes as
| follows in the New York American:
"Now is our chance to benefit oar
selves by helping humanity. In all
the history of the United States, com
| mercially, we never had the oppor-
| tunity that we have today.
Fate has eliminated Americas
commercial competitors. The world
is ours.
Il predict that for the next two
years we will see a business boom in
the United States the equal OF which
we have never before known Every
one will make money who works, and
all may partake of the prosperity.
"ln the past two weeks have
spoken at Chautauquas in five differ
ent States in the Mississippi Valley.
On these occasions l have met
a great many farmers, stock raisers
and country merchants. | have also
recently visited the cities of Chicago,
st. Louis, New York, Denver, st.
Paul and Minneapolis, meeting in
each place bankers, merchants and
manufacturers.
MY prediction of business boom,
however, is founded on something
more than the general feeling which
saw manifest.
MY prophesy is founded on the
following facts: Sixty per cent of
the people in the Unites States liv..
in the country and in towns of five
thousand inhabitants and under.
THE trade in these towns and vii
lagos is dependent upon the prospect
ty of the farmers.
1T is also well admitted fact that
when the farmer is depressed and
ceases to buy implements and to
build that trade in the large cities
suffers.
cat the present time farmers every
where are hopeful and even jubilant.
Il talked to three thousand farm
ers at Ames, Iowa, the seat of the
State Agricultural School In the
audience we had students, teachers,
professors and a good many prosper
Gus farmers.
THE sentiment of the audience
was that farmers were to get a bigger
and better price for their products
for the next year than they have III
the past.
Wheat will be a dollar, or a dollar
ten, before Christmas; corn will be
eighty or eighty-hve cents; oats will
be sixty. Farmers will be getting ten
cents for hogs at the railroad stat
ions; cattle in proportion.
wages of all kinds are going to be
highe-. Farmers in Iowa and Illinois
have been paying three and four dol
lars a day to harvest hands. Al
Ames | met man who had just
hired hundred students, husky coun
try boys from eighteen to twenty-five,
at four dollars day and board, to
work on threshing machines and dig
bitches for tile.
High wages mean good business
for dealers in clothing, boots shoes,
and all sorts of living commodities.
1.-The fact that we have bumper
crops in every line and that prices
are high means that the farmers arc
going to build; also that they are 20
ing to buy agricultural implements
on a school that they never have be
fore.
"The only depression that exists in
America is in the big cities. The
towns, villages and country are hope
full.
THE United States, Russia and Ar
gentine are the three great grain pro
ducing centers. Russia's wheat crop
is below the normal, whereas ours is
above
Europe is absolutely compelled to
look this way for food.
Argentine has good crops, which
means that her farmers will be in the
market for vast quantity OF goods
which heretofore have been purchas
ed largely in Germany. Austria and
France
And South America will look this
will be shifted largely from Europe to
chinery and commodities in a thOus-
and forms.
"The trade from South America
ours for not only will we share in the
the United States. The prosperity Of
South America will also be doubly
ours for not only will be share in the
prosperity OF South America. but We
viii thrive through the fact that prac-
tically all Europe has quit produc
tive work in order to destroy.
I'VE are now harvesting our cotton
crop. which is worth approximately
seven hundred and fifty million dol
lars.
"The factories of France, Germany
and Austria are closed. but manufac-
turing in England will continue as
never before. Il is not at all prob
able that England will be invaded.
and Great Britain will see to il that
pathway across the sea is kept
clear. and this viii mean that a good /
ly quantity OF our cotton will be alb
sorbed in England.
Great Britain is the best foreign
customer Of the United States. Great