West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-03-04
An End 10 SnivellIng


United States Steel Corporation. finds
that every day records a marked i'm
provement in the general situation -
Other business men can find the same
signs of marked improvement II they
VIII open their eyes. stop their calam-
ity-howling and get TO work.
This country has been hard hit by
the war. but taking all the circumstan-
ces into consideration. Il has Jared
very well-better than any other
country i'm the world. When we con-
slider that all the fabric OF interna.
tional trade. commerce and finance
which peaceful civilization had pa
tiently woven for many decades was
torn TO tatters in a single night. the
miracle is not that we have had hard
times but that we have suffered so lit
tie. Thanks TO the new Federal Re-
serve Banking Act, we have had no
panic. Our financial system success
fully weathered the storm Although
our normal foreign markets were cut
OF and our domestic markets thrown
into turmoil, economic order is stead
lily emerging from economic chaos.
The american people have gone
through many worse experiences than
this and they are better of today
than anybody else in the universe.
Yet certain elements among American
business men have been whining and
snivelling like spoiled children. If
their grandfathers had had no more
more courage and gumption than
some of the descendants have shown
the United States would be a fourth
rate power politically and commercial
ly.
1t is natural. of course, that politi-
clans opposed to the administration
should try TO capitalize the hard times
for their own partisan profit. Profess
sional politicians are much like |. w.
w. leaders. III they can find an issue
to agitate. they are not particularly
about its effects upon the country. IL
is natural too that these politicians
should derive great aid and comfort
from the former beneflciaries OF mo-
nopoly and privilege who still think
that there can be no prosperity unless
they have one hand I'm the national
treasury and the other hand In the
public's pocket. II Ia natural as well
that Republicans who have been
brought up to believe that 1t means a
panic to pry them loose from the pub
lie crib should exultantly point to the
economic effects OF this part as PROOF
of their contention.
The United States. nevertheless. was
not settled by calamity-howlers. 1t
was not developed into great nation
by calamity-howlers. II did not be-
come the richest and one of the most
populous countries in the world by
calamity-howlers. 1t was not built up
on the principle of rule or ruin.
There does not exist today a single
political obstacle to the complete re-
storation OF American prosperity.
There does not exist single legisla-
tive or governmental obstacle. But
business cannot revive itself. The
work must be done with men Of brains
and imagination and courage and hon
est intention. IL cannot be done by
sluggards and dullards and parasites.
II cannot be done by winners and
snivellers and fault-6nders. II can
not be done by men who are more in
terested in gouging a dollar out of
somebody else than in making two
dollars by productive effort. II is
mans Job. and the place for timid old
women in mems clothes is back OF the
fring-line.-New York World.