Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-01-07
SECT'Y. REDFIELD
GIVES CHEERFUL
MESSAGE
NO EXCUSE FOR CROUCH FoR Elk
cEPTIoNAL PROSPERITY WITH
IN GRASP OF U. 8.
trade EBALANCE|NOURFA
$1o00Qo, ,ooo-The Worlds Markets
Are Ours.

Zee. 81. Heartened by
se study of the business
NE nation, Secretary Red
commerce department wrote
NEW Years greeting to the
hts and manufacturers of the
fy bidding them in characteristic
guage to reach out for the prosperity
sees within their grasp.
There is no warrant, Mr.. Redfield de-
clares, for gloom or despair. The i'll
effects of the European war on Ameri-
can enterprise are passing and new
vistas for commercial ventures are
opening with each new day.
| His message follows:
eff you want prosperity, do your
share to bring it and do it now. Get
that addition on your shop going; it
will cost you less today than six months
hence. Is trade bit duh in the worksf
Get those improvements begun. Prices
are low and likely to rise. You've been
thinking of that contract work. Better
start yourself before things get the
start of you.
Then think of your sins aud your .
blessings and come out with your bless
ings and come ont with your courage
in working order
There are lots of good American
examples of pluck. Do you remember
San Francisco and Galveston and
Chicago, Boston, Charleston, Baltimore
and Dayton and many others like themf
Remember Thomas A. Edison and lots
of other citizens who showed pluck
when things were hard.
Nothing is the matter with the man
with Crouch except an absentee heart
and missing nerve. Cheer up,s 30 Z, to
work, do your level best, quit talking
misery. The war s over yonder not
! here. Men are slaughtered yonder---
they re living here. It's all clouds
there-clear day here.
Get out and sell some goods. Plant
( some more acres; do more work than
you planned. Talk cheerful talk and
you II find this country of ours a pretty
good place after ALL
TO support the secretary S hopeful
views are the figures gathered by his
department as to American foreign com
merce since the outbreak of the great
war Since August, when the monthly
trade balance of the nation showed
deficit if nearly $20,600,0oo through
excess Of imports over exports, the
situation has been completely changed.
a Il n.
export excess will reach $1o0,0o0.000 or
more, with one exception the highest
E mari, of the last two years.
The war caught the country unpre-
pared in that tremendous import cx-
cess had been rolled mp in the four
months preceding its outbreak. With
n the August total included, American
\ merchants were in debt I'd foreign
manufacturers and producers nearly $40,
100000 by these figures alone Since
# then, including the December estimate,
the export excess has reached a total
of $174,00o,ooo. The floating debt of
the United States to foreign countries
has been paid in goods. Secretary Red
Is field has declared and he looks now to
10 the near approach of a day when the
TX United States will take her place as q
es creditor nation, no longer a borrower
O. Since the war also 105 foreign-built
or ships with gross tonnage of 37s,sS0
ne have come under the American flag
IS Already plans are afoot to draw closer
in through commercial bonds, the Latin
or American countries. Extensions Of ere
ed dit, Mr.. Redfield believes must pave
by the way toward any expansion of com
q mercial relations with those countries
m Officials of the commerce department
ng have been studying the problem sine
in the outbreak of the war, and now ther
as has been called conference here be
he tween the financial ministers and gres
us bankers Of all American republics mex
30 year. From that gathering i expecte
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