Show MITO COUNTRY ILL ALL RIGHT BIGHT A 8 STRONG ARTICLE BY COL HARVEY THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD A plea for the tha conservation conr of common sense that 1 Is meeting with cordial approval A strikingly strong article by colonel colonal georgo george harvey in the north american review for september Is written in a view of such hopefulness tor for the american future that it has baa attracted wide attention the article Is entitled A plea for or the conservation of common sense and it la Is meeting with the cordial approval of business men of all shades of political opinion throughout the entire country couf itry in part colonel harvey says bays unquestionably a spirit of unrest dominates the land hut but if it be true that fundamentally the condition of the country is sound bound must we necessarily succumb to despondency abandon effort looking to retrieval and cringe like cravens before clouds that only threaten rather ought we not to analyze conditions search tor for causes find the root of the distress which even now exists only in mens minds and then after the american fashion apply such remedies as seems seeing most moat likely to produce beneficent results capital and labor not antagonistic the pak that connects labor with capital Is not broken but we may not deny that it Is less cohesive than it should be or than conditions warrant financially the country to la stronger than ever before in its history recovery Ile covery from a panic so severe cevero as that of throe three years ago was waa never before so prompt and com campara para lively complete the masses maddes are practically free from debt money la Is held by the bonks bankson in ln abundance and rates are low why then does capital pause upon the threshold of investment the answer we believe to be plain it awaits adjustment of the relations of government to business 0 the sole goto problem letri consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of interests Inte on the one hand and the whole jeo people pile on the other protect InK tha latisi r against extortion and baying ha the lu TI the he solution tion Is not easy to find and for the simple reason that the situation Is without precedent but is not progress being made along sane sana and cautious lanest 0 0 conserve Conier vB common sense Is not the present as aa we have seen exceptionally secure what then of preparations for the future patriotism Is the basis ot of our institutions tut ions and patriotism in the minds of our youth Is no longer inked solely with fireworks and deeds of daring it Is taught in our schools A new course has baa been added a course in loyalty methodically our children learn how to vote how bow to conduct primaries conventions and elections how to discriminate between fice bious of candidates and finally how bow to govern na as well as serve they are taught to despise bribery and all forms a of f corruption and fraud as treason their creed which they are ara made to know by heart Is not complex it to is simple but com comprehend compre preben hen elvo no less beautiful in diction than lofty in aspiration these are ara the tha pledges which axe are graven upon their memories As it Is cowardly for a soldier to run away from battle so it Is cowardly for any citizen not to contribute his share to the well being of hla his country america Is my own deal land she nourishes me and I 1 will love ova her and do my duty to hero her whose child servant and civil soldier I 1 ata am As tho the health and happiness ol of my body depend upon each muscle and nerve and drop of blood dolne its work in its place so tho the health and happiness of my country depend upon each citizen doing his work to in hla his place these young citizens are our hostages to fortune can we not safely assume that the principles animating their lives augur well for the permanency ot of tho the republic when before have the foundation dation stones of continuance been laid with such caro care and promise ol of durability tho the future then la Is bright A and ad the present but one thing la needful no present movement to la more laudable than that which looks to ta conservation ot of natural resources dut but let us never forget that the greatest inherent resource of the american people Is common sen se lot let that bs be conserved and applied without cesa tion and wn it will be found that all tho Us ills of n wati wo we complain but know not hot 0 at ur aro tinly only such sue as attend upon tho the growing pains ot at a great und and blessed country |