The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-03-04

uent wilson on JACKSON day, from
which the following extract is taken:
/ Mr. Chairman, there are a few other
remarks that the president made which
l would like TO refer to for moment.
He said that there was nothing the
matter with business today but state
of mind. We are amused by the atti-
tude Of our democratic friends upon
this question, even if 1t does not com
mand our admiration. First they tell
us that there is no business depression,
and then they say that it is getting
better, and then they add that it Is due
/ to the war and then they declare that
1T exists only In the mind, and then
they end up by saying that 1t would
already have been over if the republi-
can party and a few ignorant demo-
Gratis had not prevented them from
ienacting certain legislation.
Democracy's New Freedom.
There is nothing the matter with
business except a state of mind says
the president; the whole trouble is i'm
aginary. An empty treasury, depleted
by democratic extravaganza and in
competency, is not an ugly fact; it Is
mere optical delusion A direct tax
paid by the people to raise money to
pay the expenses of government, i'm
posed for the first time in the nations
history in time Of peace by this ad-
ministration, is not burden upon the
people; 1t is perpetual delight. TAX
ing the work and wages from the
Workingmen of this country and giving
them to the foreigner is not an injury
to American labor: to think so is men
tai stupidity that can not encompass
the perpetual blessings of free trade
Flooding this nation with foreign
made goods, the fruits of foreign cheap
labor does not rob the American mer-
chant of his markets or the American
laborer of his work; this is but the
chimera of hysterical fancy. Silent
mills, rusting machinery, smokeless
factories, these are not monuments Of
democratic incompetency and of the
fallacies of free trade; they are but
the phenomena of a mental apparition
that demonstrates that business has
now been made free. The millions of
unemployed today are not without
work; they only believe they are. The
thousands this morning shvering in
rags, standing in the various bread
lines in the great cities throughout the
country waiting to be fed by the
grudging hand of charity, were not
cold, they were not hungry they were
not shivering; they only think thew
are. If those who think that they are
poor and unfortunate would but have
an open mind and would absorb the
beauties of the new freedom and com
prehend the altruistic attitude Of this
nation toward all mankind, they would
awake as from a distempered dream
end find that the soup house was a
palace Of luxury; that they were feast
Ing Instead of starving; that the riot
Gus god OF plenty sat at the head of
the table instead Of the grinning skele
ton of want, that had so long haunt
ed their hungry vision. Those who
suffer and are poor should remember
that their poverty is not a fact but a
condition Of mind; that they who are
shivering with cold should remember
that 1t is not because they are naked.
but because they are mentally def
Client. Their hunger is due not to an
empty stomach, but to an empty head /
Only State of Mind.
Let those today who are poor and
needy, those who are suffering and
cast down, those who are today tramp
ing the highways and byways of the
country looking for work, let them re-
member that their troubles are mag
mary; that their condition is only a
of the mind Let them re-
member these things and be comfort
ed. Is 1t not strange, If the condition
If the country today is psychological
hat the president Is so earnestly urg-
ng a national employment bureau?
Does he propose to give imaginary en-
'loyment to the imaginary idle? 1t is
lot strange If whenever we have a
democratic administration that all our
roubles are imaginary, that then we
lways have the problem of the unem- I
loyed with us.
When we look upon the facts and !
gures and when we see the condi- I
Ions as they exist in this country to- {
ay, and when we remember what the 2
onditions were only few months ago. {
nd when we remember that history is :
imply repeating itself and when we "
re told by the president that these
nings are psychological and by the |
ecretary Of state that it is due to
Official conspiracy to discredit the I
emocratic party-as If it could be any
'orse discredlted than it is alreaiy-
nd by the secretary of commerce that
is due 20 inefficiency and lack of I
leerfulness, we can not but answer
lese men possessing all wisdom in I
he language of Holy Writ: Should I
wise man utter vain knowledge and
j his belly with the east wlnd@ /
What Faith Cure Has Done.