Show J THE BOUNTIFUL CROP z 0 tJ S VT v All through the spring and ummer the it i f t dt tural 1 ural department department- at Washington Va and the the newspapers pers pcr of the e east were e fill filled d with forebodings that 1 V t the crop this ibis year woul be at least a partial fail fail- t ui but now the report that comes that the spring and f v f puter w d. d Winter iter wheat heat will aggregate bushels jV I which is more more than the average v rage since 1900 The yV corn corn crop of 1906 was the greatest ever gl grown own v x amounting I to bushels but this thi year t jt will be bushels the largest ever everl l I harvested A dispatch the other day said the cotton cot- cot ton crop crop would would would-be be worth S J T There rc has been no falling off in inthe the mines As s a ai al arule i l rule the tile the manufactures have b been cn running full time Vv And A s d l with it all what all what what- have the great financiers of J S. S ti th c east est to say sav i in regard to the thc depression that is l r t. t the bus business of f the country Would not it be for them to admit that they are not capable i Ot handling the finances of a great country like this thib and as for a new dispensation a new financial finan- finan r cial system stem something that would give the people F mon money y enough to serve to serve at least as a It partial meas- meas ure values of-values f- f values value and aid certainly as a medium of cx- cx 1 en chang lINn II 0 v il I V Or 1 If nothing elso c can n b be done wn's wn s th that t un un- J f present law the national banks be given more currency ny and at the same time that the legal S t of ni the cou country iy shall be reduced to 3 per pOl S. S cent c Ji Sol ng as a men few in iu t can Up I. I 0 I the business of of- the country to suit their private ends and so so long as they are arc afraid to put jut out too much money lest the rate of interest be reduced educed why not have the government arbitrarily reduce that rate of interest and then give the thc banks the money mency needed to carry carryon on th great industries of this republic 1 This should include the reclaiming of desert faster the draining of the swamp lands the swifter building of warships and if nothing else can be done the establishment of certain neede needed needed need need- e ed lines of steamships especially to Europe and South America to be commanded by naval officers officers cers and run ruri on oh government account Let the ships be bo part pad of thc the navy so that in the event of war tIey could be converted into colliers in a week Let this be done and and a guarantee given to the merchant merchant mer mer- chant and that if they would est establish b- b lish department stores in Buenos Aires and Montevideo Montevideo Monte Monte- video and Rio and Valparaiso the ships would certainly come once in two weeks to bring them what hat they th y want for a term terni of years That would give them the encouragement they need to start iii n ii business that in a little while would give their agents a knowledge of the language and habits of if f the people and and goods and in what form they must ti be sent For instance goods sent to Rio or Bahia if they go to the interior in many cases have to be packed on mules and they should be put up in a form so they can be b packed And then nearly all aU the people of f South America wear cheap cotton clothing The masses are like liko Indians they ike like bright colors A ArEd Ared Ared red bandana h handkerchief would outsell two white ones because when a colored woman in South America can get a red bandana handkerchief to wind about her head and a gaudy skirt she does not cere cre for very much more clothing She thinks she sheR is is R dressed very much as the ladies are when they are arc areiL areia ia id iL full dress at a party We wish ish that our president our senators our representatives our manufacturers and our merchants merchants mer mer- chants would keep in mind that South Amer America ca has hasan hasan an au area so o great that reading the figures is like reading the distances to the fixed stars For instance instance instance in in- stance the Argentine republic has square squar miles Bolivia has square miles Brazil has square miles or more than the United States and Alaska added Chile has square miles Peru square miles All those we have named are countries that have good climates unlimited resources where the next fifty years of expansion will be greater than any other place on earth Just now the Republican party is on the defensive defensive defensive de de- de- de making excuses for its shortcomings The Democratic party is shouting to tl the e whole world in ir the words of Mr 11 Woodrow Wilson that the Republican Republican Re Re- publican party has lost the men who had bad the intellect intel lect to guide this nation on its upward way We tell them both that if they want to hush the Discontent Dis clis- content that prevails in this country and see business business busi busi- ness noss restored to what it was five years ago and better still the first duty is to pr provide vide the mo money ey necessary even ven as the constitution provides and then to take the practical view in regard to f reign foreign trade trad that Great Britain took long ago that France long ago took that Germany put into practice practice practice tice after her war with France Franc Get something doing doing do do- ing lug and get it quickly |