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Show 1 ' -T, NOT THE CAUSE. Tha Nawa eopias from the New York Commercial Commer-cial tha statement that "every man in the United Bttei who JluwUlingJa!workughtohavea chance to work. All would have that chance if it were not for unnecessary obstructions and threatening threat-ening assaults upon business. The United States at this moment ought to be the busiest, most prosperous, pros-perous, happiest country on the jlobe, but it is halting and stumbling along, a gigantic weakling, suffering from tha infantile paralysis of too much politics. We do not believe for a moment that a majority of the people are in favor of the con-- con-- ticual monkeying with the mechanism of industry. They are not demanding the overhauling of the country by political doctors and legislative tinkers." tink-ers." And it calls on statesmen to atop the political po-litical agitation and give business a chance. ' . Political agitation among a free people and an ! intelligent people does not injure business, and , the present trouble is altogether "oreign to poii-ties. poii-ties. It is altogether financial. According to a statement which we published last week, which is : authentic, the house of More:an t Co. in New.Tork , has drawn to its credit assets amounting to more than ninj billions of dollars. That house, with one ' or two others in combination with it, have taken absolute control of the gold of the United States, which is the only real money of tha country, and f they hold their tremendous assets aa a club over V business in every state in the union. The talk of susll politicians does not affect juslness. - The bankers jf every state in the union are afraid of , thia mighty combine in New Tork, because it has 1 in its bands the power t'o precipitate a panic on the whole country whenever it pleases..' When it was ' comparatively small affair it precipitated ' the ' panio of 1893. For its own purposes it did the ' tame thing in 1907. We all remmber here that v . business was in a fine state, impi-ovementa were going on at splendid rate, the general business of tha city and state waa magnificent, when all t once came the news that a house had failed in New 1 - York, with the result that our backers here were ol liged within two weeks to issue clearing house ' certificates to get along. , It waa ao in every atate in the union, altogether foreign from the business of the cities and the states, merely that combine of men, numbering less than twenty in all, k had co) tluded that in order to take in aome more property which it, wanted, it ' would whelm the whole country in a panic. There was no money to.be had. the government of the United Statea was Pot able to relieve the Jifficulty. There wac a hasty rush to Great Britain and the continent conti-nent of Europe to borrow a pitiable hundred million mil-lion dollars, although the trade balanct. in our favor had been on an average mora than four hundred hun-dred million dollars annually for the previous eight years. ' There can be no respite until things . are changvd, until tha government of this United Strtes is placed in a position to dir?ctjy help' when . . . iritis comes to the country, until that power in New York' is shorn of ita present ability to smanh the business o' the whole republic fron, aea to sea t any time it pleases. It is not politics, it is un Imbecile and impotent financial system, founded in the stress of great war to benefit certain men of capital, and which has been roobiug the people of the United Statea ateadily for all the years since, and neutralize the induatrien of the 'people by keeping them simply working for board and clothes and paying interest. It does not hurt for any man to put forth his political opinions. If they ar sound the people will listen; if they are not th people will discard them. The one thing that coves the whole country is the banking combine ' New York City, which makes men helpless to extricate themselves, and which ia making aerfa of th whole American people. |