The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-02-10
President Of Simmons Company in Stirring
Speech Before Congregational Mems
Club Monday Evening.
AMERICA SALVATION OF THE WORLD
"The United States With All It's Natural Resources
Should Take Upon It's Shoulders Response
biIity of Welfare of World.

The Mems Club of the Congregation
ii Church last night held the most IN
teresting meeting of it's kind ever held
in Kenosha when it's members held
their regular monthly banquet in the
church parlors. The speaker of the
evening was w. r. Dawes of Chicago,
prominent Chicago banker, who gave
an interesting talk on the present IN
dustrial situation. He was preceded
on the program by Assistant Super
Intendent of Schools LOOMS, who
asked for the cooperation of the public
in Kenosha in adjusting the present
school housing question.
In closing his address, Mr.. Dawes
stated that his bank held z. G. Sim
mons in the greatest esteem and that
if it was in order he would like to hear
Mr.. Simmons give a few remarks on
the present situation as Mr. Simmons
saw it. Mr.. Simmons then took the
floor and gave the greatest speech on
the industrial situation ever heard in
Kenosha. Mr.. Simmons warmed to
his subject and held his audience to
the closest of attention. In opening
his speech, Mr.. Simmons started off
with the red-blooded phrase, "I'm a
bull--not a bear. A pessimist never
did any good since the world started
except to emphasize the good work of
the optimist My theory of the pres
emit industrial situation is to get back
to normal as quickly as possible-but
get there soundly. l do not think that
it Is a good plan to attempt the read
justment in one bound"
Had Business Debauch.
We've all been out on one grand
and glorious debauch," Mr.. Simmons
declared, sand we've got to have that
headache afterwards. We have become
o nation Of buck passers," he contin-
ned. From the very start the manu-
facturer tackled on his little additional
profit onto the merchant, the merchant
onto the retailer, and the retailer onto
the publice The public wasn't slow
either and they got all that was COM
ing to them There is no disputing
that because it is a common fact"
Faith Is Remedy.
what is the remedy?" Mr.. Simmons
asked. "It's common honesty in bust
ness and in everything else. We went
up the scale of prices up to the very
height swiftly. We cannot come down
as quickly. A man can go up to the
twentieth story of a building very
quickly in an elevator and he can
come down much faster by jumping
out of the window, but when he hit the
pavement just what good to humanity
would he be? I'm a convert-a re-
luctant convert to getting back to
earth and | firmly believe that it must
be done as quickly as possible and still
remain solvent. The United States is
doing this and it is only a short time
ago that we were paying 80 cents
pound for sugar. What is the present
price of sugar. or cents a pound
We swung cotton, copper, leather,
hides and sugar up to preposterous
prices, but they are coming back to
normal now. There is no doubt what
soever of America being able to come
down to earth getting a toe-hold and
starting off on the right foot. The
United States has just harvested a
wonderful crop; we have wonderful
forests at our disposal; our mineral
sources are untouched comparatively,
we are blessed beyond the dreams of
any other people or nations of people
and are we going to say that We are
cutters winners?
There is no use whatsoever of the
United States being in the present pre-
dicament. What's the cause? We've
lost faith-we've host backbone-we've
lost brains. What have the people of
the United States stood when com
pared with England or any of the other
allies? The present situation is an
indictment against the ability, the
common sense, the character of the
American business man of the present
age, With all the resources at our
command, just what in the devil are
we going round like a whipped cur?
The world is dependent on the United
States. In two measly, paltry wears