Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
After the Var, Prosperity Is Predicted
to Continue in This Country; Our
Factories Must Supply All of Europe

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sfter tue war closes can hHl eN
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81 me can see Nht tttAt Ft"@I''
ity should not De permanent
IT Is possible, sou SNOW TO keep
the money after we have made 10
Aud though ] tH because 5000
business sense dictate that Bl h6uli
took Ia the DARK ~ vel as ihe bright
side 80 a- 10 anticipate ans slump
that mas anWe feel that Chs is one
al the times when we need NOT tpeCt
lain just because wee had pro
louFed period u bright sunshine
am told ihat the pendulum must
swing % the other extreme. and Oh
thai sort IT thlnE Eut mo- rule would
DC q rule without aH exception 70
Prove f. aud surely the Notld aaia-
cItsm through which other counties
ale now paEsiuR j. an exception to ail
uies
don { see that II matters whether
man makes fortune IN one year or
fbifty Yeats there no Wof" fea+nh
Why he should give 81 bsCE ina the one
case Than in he other
Europe has poured mnge than
three billions If dotItfs into the put-
ees OF the American people iu The
last twelve months and since an OF
tho munitions contracts 8fs for three
wears. viii continue to pour IN for
sometime set
That money is here and there no.
fsaseu Why it should not stay here
Europe IL IN dire necessity for certain
things We could make and sell ana
she i paying us Tor them. There is.
nothing Europe makes that Ne must
have therefore thefe Is no valid rea.
We are told. 81 eQuIse that a
number Of factories folmerlg IDLE ate
uow prospecting on European business.
ana that great many other factories
are making abnormal profits from the
manufacture OF articles outside their
regular product
This last = important II une aud
] would ask YOU 10 consider the mat
ter more thoroughly.
TIE number Of factories which
formerly we're idle and which are
now doing a profitable business is.
small rs comparison with the mum {
her thar for the moment hanged .
over to the making II articles winch t,
Europe wanted aud for which she
was willing to pay heavily
1T is not true. however. that these
latter are making greater profits than /
they would have made had they stuck
10 their last ] have IN mind several
asaeefns that hare. GONE wsthlB nN J.
own notice. ana one IN particular,
whose bufiness was making automo-
lille parts That concern took on
large contract for val munitions
specifically. fuses The price seemed
his aud looked a. II it would PAY aud
let tile regular business 30 lor the
time being Eat today iho head az
that concern tells me- they would have
made twice the money h4d they com
ttnaed % supply their regular GUS
toners Rfth their standard product
.NoW ~ tHls case The cessation OF
the strife on ghe other side viii nos
mean a slump but simply a return "a
normal conditions and normal pro
ITS
The very fact that everybody in 1
every walk uf life feels keenlv the
shortage Of certain articles Of every |
day use Is the best Indication that the
factories and mills which formerly
made those articles have now been
Go the making Of war muni-t
teas and other supplies fer Zero
pean countries