Show AND WHAT IS THE PROSPERITY ISSUE I There has been considerable talk about present prosperous conditions in this country and rightfully enough for conditions are Indeed prosperous In tho country We fear that some of our Democratic hated rivals or In other words our Democratic esteemed contemporaries con-temporaries do not fully appreciate tho full significance of these words And If they do It Is too much to expect them to explain fully to their readers exactly what Republican prosperity moans It may be taken for granted that a person or a community or Indeed a whole people are happy about In proportion pro-portion as they prosper They may prosper socially and Intellectually but that comes along after the physical prosperity Who objects to It If you find a man who says that he docs the chances are that he Is speaking for effect Everybody likes to get along well and that amounts to saying that he likes conditions to exist under which I he can get along well He only wants I a fair chance some good men only want half a chance But everybody who has the slightest spark of manliness manli-ness In him likes to feel that when he puts forth hard and Intelligent effort It will result In something for him and for those dear to him He wants money let us say not for himself not I for things that he himself would use or enjoy but rather for those for vhom he has affection and as the product of his toll Is the thing which enables him to be good to his own the average citizen wants his toll to be fruitful Now It requires tho right conditions for a mans labor to be put forth hard and Intelligently nnd successfully There munt be Investment for his capital capi-tal or work for his hand or brain Things must be expanding there must be confidence In the community In clccd there must be confidence throughout through-out the country for all or the large financial transportation manufacturing manufactur-ing and producing interests really center cen-ter about the core and epitome so to call It of good business of confidence of expansion of moneyspending and productive employment Hurt one large interest nnd you hurt all Hurt tho capitalist and you hurt the laborer hurt the laborer and you prevent tho capitalist from employing his tnvest ments to good advantage So that confidence expansion moneyspending and moneyearning arc nil involved In the same grand process And all this Is what our people have seen about them under the present Administration Ad-ministration No political talk now Just the cold hard facts as any intelligent intel-ligent person man or woman may observe ob-serve about him Business has been good Prices have been higher It is true but we have had tho wherewithal with which to pay the prices for If I It has sometimes happened under Democratic Demo-cratic administrations that prices have been lower it has also happened that even at the lower prices the products of the factory and the farm would not move and besides that If they had done BO the wagecorners of the country coun-try the salaried people tho workers of all kinds would not have had tho wherewithal with which to buy They like the Investors and the capitalists would have been restricted and then more restricted again In their own operations op-erations That Is contraction It IB business disturbance and depression Once In a great while it Is business disaster and ruin We go thus fully Into certain simple details of everyday observation because be-cause we can thus Insist the better that our people now In the election which so soon approaches will vote that things have been pretty good as they are In fact that they have been good enough and therefore that they had better be left alone They will not vote for a change because they do not want a change unless they get improvement im-provement with It and they do not know that improvement would come In fact they can almost be certain that the exact opposite would come That Is why Mr Hannas advice to lot well enough alone is pretty good and this also Is what the brilliant and popular administration of President Roosevelt mcaus It means that the people will say No changcl S |