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Show Miscellany Mr. Hill on Prosperity. ! At it, dinner In Ftocheter Home wcrla a.ffn. .bines .1. Mill il'cinrc'l Unit til" only oljnta--ieH. am fie. fr'-ni wur, thi muM itr. V'uil In 1 1 1 eyiintry an cr;i ol the rrra1-r rrra1-r t pr-'.f-ricrtt y e ;rV K nou n wi-re "poll 1 1 -c:i ii;ilH'lnn"jiO'l ovr ri -in ,i l lvi of lmn-ti''f lmn-ti''f h, " ft Is now more 1. 1 i.i n (en yea vp, he nnld, rIii'.': the ti'ieiliiefi Iiitcir;;t3 of t.h" roiintry wrrf "nn-i mihUt tire." Since (hri, tlm attack Iihh Mlcmllly "In- 'I'CHHCii tl v(,!rii'e nod ile'T-a.j",j jn 'i-lmlnaM'to." Ilo aildH: The innrenuity of n--tilers iulni;i b.-in t.ixr.l M"r-ir to invent mv irntiic-tl'in". irntiic-tl'in". new regulation!, nMv puniMi-inents puniMi-inents fur i;ullt y nivl lunorrnt aliko. When hostile rrulntori hock to I bin exlrfil , v 1 1 hoi it promise of a limit to t'ilhrr Hm objects or it or-(lTn, or-(lTn, bltnl iif-NH v ould roll ip to a 1 in 1 f tiiou;:h in riff rateH were raiser! to tho fkkfi aid pence pnva11r-il nil ovr-r the e ii 1 1 1 1 . l-'or new p:i ntM will not he bnltl. r;i w nuilerlnl will not he hoi itch I, H'ii;eH ;iiinot he r,,,,rl unle-M r;iplla1 Is raJy In sufYlrjrnl pinntitlc to perform the finnilonfi that are. popf;l-he popf;l-he n II dl'Hie. Here th'-re b: HO 1 1 1 1 n r ti hi t v. f'npl-tal, f'npl-tal, iinlll 11 in IivcmI-'., In free. The, m pi I ;i 1 1 i t will no! pill bit inonev wh'ir hrlin;n him a lower r.ilc of rei inn or la i.ub.-et to more i-P-Km HiMti In woollier occupation or another place. 'I ho whnb w,rld will pronent-be pronent-be hl-MIni; for hb: available Mir-phl Mir-phl It', llii'lir llm rlreiini"ta le'cw c. ii.tblJ! pint I. elo,-" t.br olllblrak of tho 'Mir, biiMbi. k-i w.m lancul.l In the I'nltrtl Male ;t,,, M, , ,,: yv WiiH m, eialilic Ihe r.op" of r I r pl'cf , m towanl the rIomkIi of i,it, lnr, l-e. cause eiMlalon r"plnu,iy alla-ke.! holli tli. profllH IIP'I llif. C'r-lirlty of i pit ;i I, wlni L hi lik' ly to hn ppm now ',' The main outline;.. Ih-u. of the pre.-, ut niiHiif-MK Hiiii.-illon are . lea r Tbb'. . -iiinlr'.- may . nlei, if p . ( ta'tl .' a I Irr Mm . lo-ir nl' (lie "u ' I op.-a U U a r, a ml pi ohn Me much tioonri, Ml o ;, In-I ,,f iroilll l ibb- I'to- I'M lly. 'Iu It will bo fclveu tie; - ' m mm task of providing for a time for th maintenance of a considerable portion por-tion of the world's population and industry. in-dustry. This grea t and continued demand oi us should be the guaranty of a correspondiivg prosperity. It u ould be so if no artificial conditions intervened. in-tervened. But to realize this, both capital and business Initiative must have reasonable freedom. The enormous enor-mous destruction of wealth, the continuous con-tinuous borrowing of sums hitherto unknown even to world finance, the consequent raisins f the interest rate, all foretell new and difficult conditions for American enterprise. It Is less free to take advantage of them tlmn ever before. It must operate oper-ate within the circumscription af- : si pined to it by laws which the courts ! probably will take twenty years to interpret. j At every promising opening It sees a signboard, erected by public au- thoritv, bearing the words, "No Thoroughfare." If the next five years are to repeat the history of the last ten. then there can be no great business busi-ness improvement and no general prosperity In the Tnited States. , Rest from agitation. Intelligent economy, efficiency, harmonious cooperation co-operation for business institutions as well as for political divisions these are not abstruse ideas. They do not provoke eloquence or attract the self-seeking. self-seeking. Thev a re things as long familiar and as little reverenced by the mass of men as the contents of the decalog. We must go back to them or suffer the penalty paid by every creative thing that defies the law of the physical or that of the moral order of thu world. The president of the United States, whose life, snnt in study and investigation, inves-tigation, qualifies him as an observer of no-rent events, has recently manl--fes'e.I a desire to aid the business of the country to regain some of its former vigor. If others In public life will aim to give the whole country a chance to adjust itself, and an opportunity op-portunity to test the new and manifold mani-fold conditions Imposed by recent legislation, leg-islation, the whole country will, with new hone and increasing confidence, sten rapidlv forward toward the sunshine sun-shine of commercial peace and na-Mionat na-Mionat prosperity greater than it naa ever known. |