The Omaha guide., 1932-09-24

esting Of these are the Histories of the
United States of America, which is
more or less a history Of ~panics. Any
body can generalize or theorize or
prophecy, and you can't pin him down
and say he is mistaken. Just let an
individual state a thing as fact, and if
it is not fact, you've got him in a trap.
Ny countrymen who have lost faith
in the United States and its future
destiny and greatness, Il hope none
Of you have lost that faith), are labor
ing under false impressions and are
off on the wrong foot, dancing along
with a blindfold over your eyes. In
less time than you can fathom, pros
perity will come again; it will creep
in as inevitably as night follows day
and as the moon shines at night and
the stars illuminate the nocturnal
heavens. 1t will come and it will lin
ger for a long, long time, ten or twelve
years. 1t is destined to be a better
and sounder and more magnanimous
prosperity than the minds of some
mortals can encompass and that we
have ever known, because after every
previous depression of ours, the pros
porous period has been better and
sounder. I'm saying these things
things not just as a. full fiedged per-
son who has hopeful views on life; nor
shone all through these emergencies.
as a man upon whom the sun has
Pm saying these things as a young
man who has had plenty of exper-
fence in taking it on the chin, because
! didn't profit by my own knowledge
nor act as history told mi / should
act. I've had many of the woes, with
some extra trimmings. I'm in the same
tub as every mi else, and maybe d
little worse off; but l haven't lost one
thing that many folks have lost, and
that ONE THING is MY HEAD. 1
haven't jumped into an ocean of ter
ror; / haven't been so foolish as to
conceive that this chaos is more than
a temporary state of affairs which
will come to an end; and | haven't
grown so idiotic as to lay the u of
this dilemma at the doorsteps of the
present administration at Washington
whose every effort is directed toward
effecting human relief through well
through the courageous leadership OF
organized governmental functions
that grand and noble patriot whose
name will always linger in my mind
and whose efforts will be printed on
the sands of time; and my leaders
name is Herbert c. Hoover. My opln-
ion IS that we'll never, in u lifetime
be present at such an opportunity for
moderate wisdom and common or
backyard courage to lay the basis OF
fortune. intend to! | meal to
emerge from this unfair state of af-
A., fairs with seeds planted that VIII
grow me more of a competence than L
ever had before. Anyone OF US can
do it if he or she only realizes the
facts.
We've had a bakers dozen since the
year 1900, and and at least three OF
them were so much worse than this
one that the present predicament
looks like a gold rush or a buffalo
stampede. The Napoleonic wars did
their work of destruction and the
aftermath was a world of suffering
and some people will say that there
never was a world wal before to help
break down the economic machinery
Of the whole earth. If Napoleon d1dt
run a world war, and keep 1t gong
about four times as long as we kept
this last war running, then somebody
has been writing little white lies. No
body was involved in the Napoleonlc
wars but France and England and
Holland and Spain and Italy and
Russia and a few others, including
Uncle Sam. To make the matter worse
we had just finished up a terrible wal
with England. India was in revolt
and China was in u~pheaval. If that
wasn't a world war, 60 find me a bet
ter one. The panic Of 1887 came
along later, about as many years after
Napoleon was abated as this
came after the Kaiser was dethroned
and sent into exile. The world was
in a state that bordered on saying that
this was the end Of civilization, and
that we never could emerge from it,
and that money could never make
money any more. Banks were pop
ping all over the United States like
~frecrackers on the fourth of July.
Nothing was worth anything; people
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