The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-07-11
TINE TO CUT OUT soB-sTUFF

NOW That Germany has signed UP
and the President has broken away
from Paris, isn't it high time to cut
out a good deal of this over-indul-
gence of fear concerning unemploy-
ment, the high cost of living, Boil
shevism, I. w. WIS and other ter
rors that try to comouf1age their
lawlessness- make this business
OF reconstruction hum?
There is no minimizing the worth
of the achievements in our national
affairs, and those of the world; but
the human mind cannot forever
dwell upon the tragedies that cost
ten million lives in battle, thirty
million injured, and thousands made
blind or insane-and others made
poor, and some made rich.
How about tomorrow, as well as
yesterday? Industrial facts are
worthy of, and must be considered;
There are practically no business
failures occurring in the country;
the bank clearings are running about
seventeen per cent. over last years
highest totals. Even if prices are
high the cost of labor and the prices
of foodstuffs furnished firm founda-
ton for the condition. Cotton is no
longer in the dumps, and it, like
wool, is in active class. Steel slump
ed and suffered real bump after the
war, but the human members of that
industry, including the ''men on the
job" ought to be able to take pro-
tracted vacations for time as the re-
suit of their era of prosperity. The
railroads are tagging in making pur-
chases of steel, and the Director
General is following the footpaths of
for two-thirds of billion dollars
from Uncle Sam to take up the de-
ficit, or slack of a years operations,
and to provide for essentials in bet
terments and requirements of the
properties. But someday this mud
dlesome muddle occasioned by Gov
eminent operation will end; and it
will be a gala day for the Nation
when private owners of railroads re-
sumo charge, and restore decrepit
roadbeds and rolling stock, and get
the great steel highways back to nor
NAL condition. But while the rail-
roads are down in low speed, the au-
tomobile business is on high, and the
steel men are finding pretty good
output for their goods in that direc-
ton. Even ouse-building is on the
gain, unemployment is not half as Sc
rious as some agencies would have
one. believe. Our. conditions con-
trasted with those that existed
abroad, should produce optimism of
the keenest kind. Raw materials
and machinery are lacking In the
war zone, and millions of men are
idle in consequence, while the dis
content that RACES is causing further
industrial stagnation because work
men are demanding new systems in
industry, that will furnish them a lit
tie taste Of the democracy that they
have been dying for.
Ye Gods, we are lucky race, and
our debts and debtors can easily be
forgiven, for the United States is
richer than it was before the war;
it's manhood and womanhood have
been rejuvenated through the short
season of struggles that they have
endured. There are no longer Brit
ish syndicates owning our flour
mills or German syndicates owning
our breweries, or British and Ger
man syndicates financing our rail-
roads as in the olden days. Uncle
Sam is now the chief banker of the
world; and all civilized nations take
their hats off to US.
1t is time to feel little cocky over
our position in the affairs Of the
universe. Incidentally every CON-
munity that whoops it up in giving
their returning soldiers big well
come, and then goes on the way, bat
thing for the peaceful conquests of
the future and forgetting the sob
stuff, will make progress towards the
realization of a world free for De-
mocracy's sake.
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