Gilpin observer., 1915-09-09
UNITED STATES PROSPERITY
TO BE GREATEST IN HISTORY

!. N. Stevens, the journalist and
lawyer, has just returned from trip
to New York and other eastern cit
les, and is very optimistic regard
ing the future indus rial outlook in
the United States. To use Mr.
Stevens own words, We quote:
IF every person in the United
States who owns anything of value
can and will hold on to it for anoth-
er twelve months there is no doubt
about the market value of such thing
being greatly enhanced and W thin
three years all real estate and divi-
dend-paying securi les will almost
double in value
1T cannot be otherwise, for al
ing up in world value at a marvelous
rate and when tie great war ends
1t will take a generation of full pres
sure production all along the line for
sist Europe in making good the war
losses. There will be an enormous
Initiation of currency in Europe,
which of course, will double and tre-
BILE some values, but the whole world
will be equally inter sted in seeing
that this initiation is scientifically
controlled and that t does not run
riot for even a short period.
America Will Lead
AS Financial Natcn.
Net only will we be the leading
financial nation of the world. able
to control all foreign exchange, but
We will be the greatest industrial
beehive the world ever saw. and un-
less congress is most derelict in its
duty at the coming session we will
be forever hereafter tie great in
ternational SHIPPING and comm arcial
nation.
Labor has already had conce siors
made to it in the last few weeks in
the great industrial centers of tie
East that it has been fighting for
years, and the close of this year will
probably see the eigh:-hour day uni
versally recognized in tie large
Eastern industrial plants and a heavy
tho just and fair increase in the days
wages. Common labor is already be
coming scarce in certain cities of
industrial activity ard fer years af-
ter the close of this war it will be
scarcer than it has ever been in our
history, for tie res sen that we will
have an entire different class of i'm
migrants after tie wsr and the great
bulk of them will be persons of means
fleeing from oppressive taxation. If
our American working people are sat
isfied with their demands OF the
past few years as fair standard of
hours and pay there should not be
the slightest fraction in getting that
standard permanently established.
Prosperity Will Roll
Rapidly to the Rockies.
The coming tide of prosperity.
nationally will affect the Atlantic
coast first, but it will not take it
iohS " rOll CUT 10 lHe ROCKY MOun-
tains.
There is but one cloud in the hor-
izon. This prosperity is certain to
arouse deep-seated iealous'es and bit
ter rivalr:es among other nations and
we shall be assailed in every possi-
bic manner. Already experts from
Japan are going all thru our country
studying our commercial methods,
feeling out tie force of our nat onal
sentiment, but more particularly are
they examining our naval and military
equipment and the resources of tie
country along those lines and the
measures that are proposed to rem edy
our present deplorable condition.
I'm these matters the sentimental
lists must be rels gated to the rear
unless we desire to see net only our
commercial and Industrial greatness
destroyed, but also orr governmental
ideals and dreams rltflessly thrown
into the international scrapheap of
visionary experiments"
Last Saturday morning. Judge Full