Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-11-18
'B..E|:vER|DGE |: TELLS
AMERICANS WHAT.
IS MOST NEEDED
Sound Business Will
Burst Bonds of
Depression
SITTING ON THE WORLD
J. transient iran Lashback of
Business Not a New
/. Thing
ON THE WORLD
By Associated Press)


New York, Nov. 1.-THE supreme
need, and duty of the hour is to
strengthen business; for upon active
and wholesome business depends the
we'll being of all the peope, former
United States Senator Albert J.
Beveridge of Indiana told the New
York State Chamber of Commerce at
its annual banquet tonight.
TThe present depression is not a
transient economic phase due to an
unRappy state Of mind on the part
oftbusiness men or the people gener-
aiiy; and it is not to be improved by
the methods of college cheer leaders
att football games," Mr.. Beveridee
SAID. "On the contrary, those inf1a-
tipists of hope who tell us that pros
petty is just around the corner when
it Il not there but far away, do not
hess bslt positively hurt business.
They sow broadcast dragons
teeth of distrust.. For when the
people go around the corner and fail
to find the promised prosperity, but
are again told that it is around the
next corner and again fail-when
-hls process is repeated three or four
Zines, the people lose confidence !,
Faith is killed by disappointment.
Nov is the time for plain speak
ng by men who have graduated from
Let us frankly know the
worst at once. We have been rath-
r fed up on the glad hand;' we need
nstead period of brass tacks..' +
"One of the immediate causes of
he creeping paralysis from which
uslnes is suffering is the plight of
he railroads.
To-day railway rates are oppres-
i've, railway facilities INADEQUATE,
allway employees dissatisfied and
ebeillous, railway equipment i'm
airde, railway capital reduced and
nperilled.- Until these conditions
'e bettered, all forecasts of good
mes are the mere matter of politi-
ans, the crafty wiles of men who
I'VE axes to grind, or the senseless
coherencies of pipe dreams. \,
almost ten years ago denounc- G
as the invisible government, the di
'ay of those financial conspirators ci
10 sought to dominate the nation er
lat cabal of cunning and avarice X
S been overthrown But another r,
'lslble empire has been establish ac
as evil and dangerous as that of th
dethroned autocracy of wealth,
is new assailant of ordered liberty sts
l American institutions is the mi
Sc and closed corporation of those ars
n who have made themselves mas co,
$ of labor unions. fin
Organized capital and organized sta
Or alike can be made useful to all SIR
and helpful to the Republic; but mis-
her shall be permitted to Cypress the
man, woman or child, or to gov sal,
the American people. feet
The methods by which the Adam tior
law was forced on the statute but
Ks raised an issue as vital and ba- cha,
as that which brought on the civil "
indeed the Adamson-law issue add,
70 'ne very existence OF govern refe
itself. az
leh organizations, by threat to tom
ngle the nation, can dictate laws "I
their own advantage at the ex- ans,
e of all the people, then regular chan
by all the good of all is ais {
and, in place of it is sub "1
ted the erratic despotism of par ,subn
ar groups for their special pur instr
to the injury of the country ottb,
whole egat
t all cost, the Adamson-law is az
should have been fought out to the
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