| Show IT IS TIME TO TAKE STOCK periodically the managers of every successful business must check their assets and their liabilities to know where they stand what is good for a business is good for a government ern ment the people of this nation are stockholders in the greatest business in the world namely the united states government says the manufacturer of salem oregon private business must constantly be on the alert to prevent bad accounts accumulating on its books failure to do this has wrecked many otherwise promising institutions the people of this country must be diligent to keep bad accounts ill advised legislation exorbitant taxation public officials and legislators with radical and visionary ideas from clogging or destroying the machinery of government just as bad debts will wreck a business so will exorbitant or taxation radical legislation and unbalanced public officials wreck a government 6 it is well to take stock of ourselves six months after the last presidential election excitement of the political campaign is passed and all new public officials are in office the nation has actually settled down to the first normal period of activity since the first gun was fired in the world war v r eleven years ago we have what every other nation in the world is striving to secure namely sound domestic and financial conditions under a stable form of government yet we have in this nation today public officials teachers and professional lecturers who would if they could undermine the sound basis on which we are operating and substitute in its place obstructive and destructive ideas which have destroyed the stability safety and progress of some of 01 the worlds leading nations that the people of this nation do not wish to see adiv experimental program adopted was made very evident it ibe last election but the work of the agitator never ceases hence our public officials and private citizens must b evar ev on their guard to prevent liabilities accumulating ne ill in tl fairs of our government just as the managers of private bus mess iness are constantly on their guard to prevent liabilities creeping into the affairs of private enterprise what a great thing it would be if when our national congress reconvenes it would devote itself more largely to the affairs of government and less to the affairs of private citizens and private business than it has during recent years never before in the history of the united states was the labor situation in such a healthy condition hours are reasonable and wages are good behave we have legislation covering practically every phase of business activity the workman is protected the public is protected industries are protected from unfair competition labor and capital are actually working in close harmony and workmen through the purchase of the stocks and securities of the industries which employ them are sharing in the profits or losses of such enterprises who is to be benefited by any program which would tend to unsettle such a satisfactory status the people of this nation as a unit should demand that government business be permitted to continue along safe sane and normal lines without the disturbing influence of uncalled for experimental peri mental measures and policies which tend to destroy the perfect balance which this country is maintaining today in its domestic relations an inventory of our national affairs will show that we are in a sound condition and with proper management we should continue in inthe the same situation for an indefinite perio d into the future |
