The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-01

press lmpatience because these noli
cies are not put into full force and
effect Immediately, would do well 70
consider the natural law by which
Providence has made it possible to
destroy in a few days a building which
requires months to reconstruct.
The national headache which in
evitably follows an economic spree
compenced a year ago and reached its
greatest intensity while Mr.. Wilson
was still in the White House. That If
has not been entirely subdued is due
to a manifestation of the natural law
referred to above.
1t took the Wilson administration
seven years to put us in our present
economic plight and it is not fair or
reasonable to expect that normal con-
ditiOns car be restored in two or three
months.
We started on the down grade in
1914 but the movement was arrested
by the war in Europe which stimulat-
ed u markets and furnished an arti-
fetal barrier of protection. The miles
of idle freight cars on the side tracks
in 1914 and the "buy a bale of cot
ton" slogan have not been forgotten,
IhpaiSlOIl anu IIllldCiOil WE'RE grad
ual under the stimulus of European
conditions until the United States en-
tered the war. 1t was then, of course,
necessary to increase production in
every line and to spend money freely,
to organize every national activity
and to overlook no detail toward win
ming the war.
But the administration did not stop
there. 1t scattered money with a la
wish hand, dislocated business, built
up huge and unwidely bureaucracies,
~yburdened industry with unscientific
taxes, absorbed the railroads and so
m~ismanaged them that it will take
years of the most efficient manage
ment possible to place them on a firm
foundation. The waste and the I'M
scientific spending of money was un-
precedented and in some instances
Acandalous, and the Indignation of
the public against the Democratic ad-
ministration was temporarily post
poned only by the desire of the peo-
pie of all political faiths to win the
war, was ameliorated only by the re-
roic exploits of our boys who went
across the sea to uphold the rights
of the Republic.
In the face of such waste and ex-
travagance, of the wrecking of the
railroads, of burdensome taxation, and
the lowering of the morale of the pub
lie service through the evil influence
of bureaucracy, there could be but one
result. We had to pay the piper and
the payments started more than twelve
months ago. The result was stagna-
ton in business and general suffer-
ing.
The task of the incoming admins
~tration could only be described by the
now ~hackneyed term herculean. AIDE
quate protective tariffs had to be es-
tablished, against the cheap labor of
Europe, a scientific and less burden
some scheme of taxation had to be
devised, the railroads had to be re-
constructed, and last but not least
bureaucracy had to be supplanted by
economical efficient government. Much
remains to be done, but a great deal
has been done since President Harding
took office three and a half months
ago.
The results so far accomplished
augur we'll for the future. The debris
is being slowly cleared away, and bet
ter yet the administration is building
soundly and safely as it goes.
But in measuring the results let us
not forget the cause-eight years of
Democratic Encouragement at Wash
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