The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-06-04

dation: had reduced this number 10
POT 900: and today we have but 215,-
600 such establishments, or about the
same number that we had forty years
ago. 20
We have last, but not least, no.
OOO. 900 of the greatest, most progress
sive, and most productive people on
the face of the earth, a people who
have and will continue 20 produce
more per head than any other people
in the world.
Next we have government, truly
representative of the people them
selves a government where the child
of the immigrant has an equal oppor-
tunity with the offspring OF those
whose forebears came to this country
on the MayflOwer.
we have the largest aggregation
of capital of any country larg-
er than that of the remaining coun-
tries of the world the smallest
proportion of debt of any country II
the world.
Now, what are our liabilities We
have a number, some of them srlvl-
al. a few of them serious if we look
forward with courage and hope IN
stoad of backward with fear and des-
pair. What are they?
First and foremost is the DISPOSE
ton of all of us to claim every right
and privilege accorded us, with ZEN
dency to neglect our plain duty that
seems hand in hand with our great pri-
vilege. AS matter of fact, if some
one. some time, some where, had not
cast aside everything but their love
of country, our rights and privileges
would have long snice ceased to be.
Second, is the tendency on the part
of thinking men to refuse to consi-
der the great problem of government
with the same care as they consider
and solve the problem of their prl-
vate. business.
Third, is our disposition to open
wide the doors to unknown and I'M
desirable aliens? Since 1920 alone
we have welcomed to our country, ap
proximately:
100000 Germans.
100000 Irish.
100000 Austrians.
100000 Italians.
Ut q, q Russians.
100000 English.
z,oO0,OO0 Scandinavians.
10000 Scotch.
Fourth, there may be classed as
danger and liability the unemploy-
ed, but which are and must become
a potential asset in the development
of this great land.
We need fear no foreign foe and
we need fear no foreign competition.
In the next five years we will not only
hold and develop our internal trade,
the greatest in the world, but we will
if we cooperate and use our brains,
capture the foreign trade of the world.
Before this great war we competed
more or less successfully with the OPP
pressed and poorly paid workman of
many parts of the world. Today these
workmen have broken their chains.
Not only are we rich IN natural re-
sources, but, as | have stated before
our youth is alive and working: our
engineers, our mechanicians, our
chemists, our inventors are in our la
boratories and our schools and facto.
ries, and not in the graves of Fland-
ers. Our Workmen are alivo and full
of progress and vim and vigor, and
with more than half the natural re-
sources Of the world, plus the great
es. brain and labor power of the world,
we need but one thing to make this ma
ton many times greater and more
prosperous and happier than ever be-
fore, and that is common sense and
cooperation.
When there is sickness in friends
home each one has his own notion
of how to show his interest. One
jangles the telephone and perhaps a
wakens the patient, to ask how the
sick one fares. Another calls and
asks it there is anything she can do
to help, but third, which strikes our
fancy just right, sends in a loaf of
bread or a bunch of roses. In other
words some people act their sympathy
and some people just talk it. Miss
Ranney, one of The best nurses that
Austin or any other town ever hal, IN
her long experience with sickness,
once said: "DeIiver me from the per-
son who asks in helpless please
don't-ask-me tone if there Is any