Show v NATIVE LAND AND NEW YEAS YEAR t Our whole republic lid did well in ill 1909 When hen the thet t ca came ne in iii the people wele were fit struggling U Ji lf back to Prosperity after the panic o or of the fie previous year year- picking up UI the raveled threads of torn industries and md weaving them again into sound fabrics That k depression and panic of 1908 w was not a that lint janle came from adversity but from prosperity The ery rich that had been playing tremendous stakes s jor ten previous years ears at last plunged too dest des- des and became involved And their field be be- t j lg the great reat commercial and amI financial enter center of the he republic the thc blow blO and aDa the fear extended to theE the of the laud attack of h heart art E sc extremes even as an failure paral paralyses ses the extremities of the human C frame It carried the sev severe re lesson with it that the tho kost most prosperous country can be grievously injured i l j J insufficient checks are all the restraint laid what wha ma may be called l legitimate gambling It It Imade made clear too that the United Sf tes h hi has has- s no sumi sum sum- i currency system to control overpopulation or to meet disaster Wh when ll it coines' coines comes corne j President Roosevelt went out of office fter after seven even years ears of the presidency Went Vent out with the reputation in the thoughts of thoughtful men of I being a patriotic man a most mst capable man in a 1 thousand th usand ways was Still a mail man of impulse awi 88 n 1 who not coveting contentions contentious enjo enjoyed Iem rJ when en they came of one impatient of opposition and generally generally gen gen- ell ell- without reverence except f for r his creator He was succeeded by President Taft a fine line scholar lawyer er and judge a sincere and lovable man a patriot of the highest highe t kind but who has not as asyet asyet yet et revealed the measure of The material gains of the last year have been very gr great at The harvest was wonderful its a measured only by ty the figures that astron astronomers mers inis mers' mers us' us use use hoir ih cal calculating th the d distances t to tl the C tv J 4 f jf i Jr 11 steel and copper was was' s so- so grat r at Hie have hayo l kept up up their exports except to t the o or orient ont the railroads have picked up their miles of idle cars made cars made idle by Uj- the panic panic and and have th them m all all' at work and nearly miles of new track have hav been constructed constructed con cell during the year three fourths of a million of people have been added to the population through immigration great works have been heen carried car car- ried ned on in nearly all the states but no beginning I Ihas has been leen made macic toward canalizing eat t-eat rivers anti and making them commerce bearers no start stait has been ma made e toward insuring for the lie country a merchant inn marino rifle has IS been attempted looking to the restoration of if our foreign trade with half thc peonIes peoples peo peo- pies ples of the earth carth The people of all sections are arc drawing awing nearer together as was evidenced by the cordiality extended the to-the pr president on his journey across the tho n northern states to the th Pacific and his return re re- re- re turn h by the southern states The co country is running on the high tide of prosperity pros pros- the greatest app apprehension on which cautious s men entertain is is' whether hether it could slow low down without without with with- out ut a a. crash should a gr great at ri misfortune like the general general gen gen- eral cral failure of u a crop come The Cubans have been given giyen back the control of their island our country seems to be on Oil go good cl terms with ith all all' the world except ex ex- Nicaragua aragua and anti that should be be looked upon a as a police court affair to be be settled some morning in ia that accursed c quarter of an hour before a police magistrate The the Happy New Now Year are ringing out joyously from lak lakes s sto to gulf from s sea a to sea toda today and no reservations are arc held l in the hearts of those who are swelling the glad acclaim |