Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-17

and now thoae marks como to them
and beg 10 be admitted TO their con.
sidcration. Those same good. American
brains once were hampered. though
they did no. know II, by selfish
methods that would grasp on the onl
hand and exclude with the other. But
the sober conscience behind the brains
long ago has rejected those things and
the brains are free TO act
'Of course. there are problems left
There always Will be problemk lief,
There never can he. Till human natur.
radically alters and until the laws Of
! economics and OF politics are worked
| out through the ages OF their full fruit
ton, time when there will not b.
serious problems
Who doubts. however. our ability 10
deal with them? Ono OF these dimcul-
ties Is mental one. but none the les,
real The man who laughs whom on.
says a problem Is mental one must
mean b. his laughter that he himself
has no mind. for had nc mind, h.
would recognize mental things as real
fiits at standpatters.
! This mental dificuIty consists in
point OF View which he refuses 10
learn. rejects courage and has nothing
! to do with callner vision, but which
! huddles itself together with Itself.
hocltsnG all alone BY Itself and which
says:
prove; we VIII not study We will 81,
pat until We get that blessed Trims
which We call tariff. which !. so good
! mat when We get II, We shall not have
TO think hard; We shall not have to
! Improve our methods we shall not he
obliged TO put our wits hard at work
No, We viii go back to the good old
times. wnen Mr.. Tariff made u ncces-
sary for US TO do all these taxing
things which try ms SO much. and are
unpleasant and 20 unnatural
I III would be unfair. however to sup-
gest that any controlling part OF Amer
I lean thought is OF this class. II Is a
noisy part doubtless, in some measure
"a sincere part. and used by others not
80 sincere to play the lattcrs game 1,
Is part stiii left among us for our
sins OF the old heritage of education
in Industrial inability; the training We
have no long had In what we could not
DO 1t liz opposed 10 the light: 1t reveh
/ IN industrial darkness and finds e..
4 home among the ineffective
! Let us be thankful. however. for I'm.
dustrial men of vision, true captains
I OF militant industry. men of light and
leading. who have blazed tho pathway
/ trst and then built broad straiEh,
roads OF commerce through which our
ncrcha ndisc flows with increasing free
] dom throughout the world. In due time
others VIII take courage To follow in
D
! and upward
The wide world OF commerce wants
/ us as much as We need II. We hav.
/ in America tho means and the men and
I the brains TO meet the present oppor-
! tunity. We have the material. tho
/ equipment, nay, we have tho pilots 10
show the road and guide our course on
the growing tide OF Industry and COM
merce.
! cit is not time for bears, for con
structive movement has begun and IL
going on. The great tree of American
industry is growing and expanding un-
I'll II shall cover many seas and many
lands. The bears may have their dens
about its roots; they may growl there
they may claw its bark. and try TO tear
II down, but the tree Is too strong for
them, and is growing to a fruitage
! that will bless us all.
! Then the little bears, will come out
and bask In the general sunshine"