The Monroe journal., 1916-11-24
We oueht 90 Get Along.

We have heard much about what IS
going to happen in this country al
the close OF the European war. Well,
what is going to happen? Are We
going to shut up shop and pine away
and die. Notwithstanding the fact
that we have the same capacity for
taking care OF ourselves that we have
always hads The late d. \. Coying-
ton many years ago once made an adj
dress before the Monroe High School
and his subject was Union county.
He said that after the war Union
county had nothing left hut her soil
and her skies. but she came again.
Now. however much the European
war trade may have stimulated things
in this country. the fact remains that
we will have the richest ard broadest
land under the sun with more ready
capital, more intelligent labor. more
productive machinery and more OF ev-
erything else except war scrap, both
men and materials. than any other
country. Whaever the war may have
contributed to our prosperity its ees-
sation certainly can remove nothing
that we had before. With all the ad-
yantages enumerated above. II this
nation has not sense enough 20 re-
main prosperous We had as well all
give up at once and go tc the bone
yard. 1t is rather tlresome TO hear
all this talk about ruin staring us in
the face at some future titae.
However. there appears TO be no
prospect that the war is 10 end any
time soon. In the last issue OF The
Journal there was a highly intcro St
ing article by Mr.. Frederick Palmer,
an American newspaper man o. high
standing who had just returned from
n long tour OF observation IN Europe,
His conclusio2 was that there were
absolutely no peace signs discernable
in Europe now. His testimony cor
responds to all the others that We
have heard and tallies exactly With
that OF every utterance of the several
European chancelleries. From the
latter there has come no Indication
whatever that there Is the slightest
ground upon which the two groups
of warning nations will now admit
even discussion of peace, And SO
far are they from this that Mir. Palm
er declares that England alone is
prepared to sacrifice a million lives in
1917 rather than to treat upon any
suggestion other than the complete
surrender of Germany And German
officialdom declares that before that
country will submit to this they will
fight TO the last man Since this is
true We are apt to continue to enjoy
whatever prosperity that the war has
caused in this country.
If this vast country is going to live
forever In the silly belief that some
other nation is going to ruin cur peo-
pie by selling goods too cheap, We
had as well join the infant class and
make up our minds to forever stay
there. The so-called fear of dumping
upon us cheap goods to our injury is
too silly to engage the minds ol
grown folks any longer 1t ought TO
go along to the limbo Of the other
tmIer that we held in the days when
The earth was thought to be aat and
navigators were afraid to sail too far
out to sea for fear that they would
suddenly fall off. Rich or poor, Eu-
rope will never have anything to give
us, and it is the universal desire Of
the human mind to buy as eheaply as
possible. II they become for any rea-
son in a position to sell cheap it will
simply mean that they are compelled
to have our high priced goods in re-
turn for their cheap ones. And if we
are thus enabled to give fewer goods
for more goods We are the ones to
benefit and not they.