The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-08
SEES PROSPERITY AHEAD
WITHIN GRASP OF PEOPLE
Secretary of Commerce Red6eld
Writes New Years Greeting.

Washington, Dec. 81. Heartened b,
months OF close study of the nation
business outlook, Secretary Redfield O
the Commerce Department to-day wrot
New Years greeting to merchants anc
manufacturers, bidding them reach ou
for the prosperity he sees within theil
grasp. There is no warrant, Mr.. Red
! field declares, for gloom or despair. His
message follows:
lfyou want prosperity, do your own
share to bring it, and do it now. GET
that addition on your shop going; ii
will cost you less to-day than six months
hence. Is trade bit dull in the works?
Get those improvements begun. Prices
are low and likel to rise. You've
been thinking of that contract work;
better start it yourself, before things get
the start on you.
This country slows down bit now
and then, but it never stops growing,
and it always moves up, and not down.
We don't know what it means in most
of the United States to have real general
distress, Think of Belgium and Poland,
. man with crouch, and slink into
your hole and pull it in after you! There
think of your sins and your blessings,
and come out with your courage in
working order.
There are lots of good American
examples of pluck. Do you remember
San Francisco and Galveston and Chi
cago, Boston, Charleston, Baltimore and
Dayton and many others like them
Remember Thomas A. Edison and lots
of others of your fellow citizens who
showed pluck when things were hard.
Nothing's the matter with the man
with crouch except an absentee heart
and this country of yours pretty good
DO your level best, quit talking misery.
The wars over yonder-not here. Men
are slaughtered yonder--they are living
here. It's all clouds there-clear dav
here.
Get out and sell some goods. Plant
'ome more acres; do mole work than
you planned. Talk cheerful talk and
'ou'llfin this country of yours pretty
,ood place, after all"
The Secretary supports his hopeful
Jews with figures on American foreign
ommerce since the outbreak of the
reat war. Since August, when the I
Monthly trade balance showed a deficit
t nearly 500, 100000 through excess of
IMPORTS over exports, the situation has 7
cen completely changed. For Deem ,
er alone it is estimated the export ex- r
ess will reach 100000, 900 or more, !
18th one exception the highest mark
the last two years.
The floating debt of the United States Il
} foreign countries has been paid in o
pods, Secretary Redfield declares, and y
looks now to the near approach of
~ when the United States will take her a
ace as creditor nation, no longer a .
)rrower.
Since the war los foreign-built ships
I'VE come under the American flag. n
EDITIONS are being made every week. Oh
ready plans are afoot to draw closer m
rough commercial bonds the Latin
nerican countries. Officials of the IN
Department have been study m
the problem, and there has been to
led conference here between finan-
j ministers and great bankers of all j.,
nerican republics next year. From
1t gathering is expected to come prac-
al suggestions to stimulate trade re- -
ions.
In preparing for the new year the VIC
mmerce Department will issue Jan rlo
y 2 the first copy of the new Daily we
nmercial Report to supplant the old
suldr bulletins. DR.. Pratt, of the ito
eign and domestic commerce bureau, sal
ided to-day to print in the new pub vic
tion cablegrams from trade advisers,
a as to crop yields and conditions and the
dltion from the census bureau and Bu
icultural department, apd informa- by
as to war risk insurance. The plan 7
condense into the daily all day oc- fire
rences among the government de- dan
,ments that directly and Immediately mn
ct the country's business interests. ,
1alter Hines, Page, American Am yea
ador to England, wired the State this
artment that the attitude of the ed I
lsh Government toward the Ameri- n
note OF protest was entirely friendly. ;,
call for $50 brings the coal wagon. qua
on City Ice q Coal Co. lpub