Show I V Why h y Not A Nation C f Thinkers tA IA 1 t A remarkable nan an died in this country a short tire tr ie le ago This man was not a supers an He lie was just justa a plain erday c li American citizen w with th an abiding aith anth alth in humanity and the deepest for American democracy and fr dam as guaranteed d dand and protected by bYi our constitutional form of government nt He lie had a broa vision He lie built up his business Ib b ly helping others to build up their 11 business siness lie He knew that if his manufactured articles were to have haye the greatest f realest g-realest sale consumers had to be able t buy and willing to bu buy tl 1 I He could see sec tat t at in order to sell a pump for irrigation purposes he had to do a whole lot besides build a pump It was n ore n ore necessary at first for him to lra enco encourage e the teaching of scientific agricultural tural methods so that farmers c uld ud use pumps and andi j i have the mone with which to buy than it was to build a 1 pump factory And so it was wa throughout his busi bust bustness business ness career He lie saw v the value of building up tho buying power of the people as the S surest rest way to build up his own busine business s He lie could sec that exorbitant taxes radical tion legislation and disturbing governmental policies were detrimental tal wI to the laboring men and business and that the laboring abbring man suffered crippled i most by an any laboring policy which crippled t industry and destroyed estro ed employment t tI I This man st with nothing but butt t a clear clem vision jand and an understanding understanding i of basic principles which underlie ity both individual and national prosperity prosper prosper- prosperity prosperity When he died di d he was vas the head of the greatest business of its kind in inthe the he world an his products were sold in every nation nation The question will be asked What business has all this todo to do with my m job or my It has ever everything thing to do with your business or job whatever it may be You have the thc same brain to think you may not rave pave the in- in insight insight in insight sight into hu human an nature which he had But you can an profit by the record record i which he left eft It doesn't take great intelligence for the shoe merchant to see that he will Jill ll sell more shoes if conditions are good nor for the in- in insurance insurance in insurance good agent to understand that prosperous peo people lie e are better prospects Get over th idea tha that t you can make prosperity y for forr yourself alone and realize tha you ou depend upon the theother other fellow or your business The United States Slates is- is isa is a world leader in many ways For this reason it il should become i land of thinkers We should not be he at the mercy of political agitate s and legislative buccaneers buc- buc buccaneers buc buccaneers The editor should understand tha that an unsound piece of legislation or which inter inter- interferes interferes interferes feres with som industry t three tee ree thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand miles awat alva awa ma may tak an adver adver- I of a local loc l store of his p paper per or create which will willI I cut down hiss his s list The local grocer ma may ose his business be- be because because be because cause an unsound d tariff policy de- de destroys destroys de destroys the mar mariet et for local farm crops The ba ker feels the effect immediately w wl m n any business is hurt and it go got without saying that the day labore is the thc first man to get the ax hen business suffers The lesson t tc be learned from thi this man who has r ont onis on t is plain and simple He I In iii d d his life largely in inthe inthe inthe I Iman the interest of the other not fellow fellow from a purely charitable angle but from the stan stain point of good busi busi- business business business ness As mor mol of us follow his ex- ex example example ex example i exi ample man many b siness problems pro an and II world ies will disappear |