Show Marking Markin Time By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Well Vell it is nearing two weeks of administration of national affairs and we are progressing progressing along quite satisfactorily We had a big bank run and a panic before he was inducted into office and he took decisive action immediately after assuming his presidential duties and called a special session of congress and had his ideas ratified by an overwhelming overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming vote of the congress and stopped the run on the banks and have been people depositing gold In the banks since to th the tune of more than a hundred millions of dollars instead of drawing gold out as foreign nations and others had been doing The Federal Reserve banks are issuing more money on bonds and other securities which will soon begin to get into the circulation of the country There is a better feeling everywhere and the prospects prospects prospects pros pros- for a general of business with a reasonable time see seems to be certain President Roosevelt had hadell well ell digested ideas and was ready to act immediately on assuming office and did act most rapidly and decisively He had said that it was better to tomake tomake tomake make a mistake in acting than notto notto notto not to act at all aU and if any particular scheme didn't work then try an other plan Well Vell that is what successful business men do in the management of their private business business busi busi- ness and that is a display of initiative of the human mind and I Ithe the more initiative with a sound judgment the more the prospect of success It has been truly said that an absolute monarchy with an able able I and wise monarch is the best government gov- gov j gov-j i on the face of oC the earth I There can be no doubt of the truth of that saying but the trouble Js Is that so few monarchs are able and wise that a monarchy gets gets gets' I to be a bad government When we have a wise president we get along all right In this country because a president h has s SI so much I power and if he be no good we get rid of him in four years Our Ouri i presidents however have been I Ithe the creatures of the crowd who put th them m into office The policy Ifor I Ifor for the last twelve years has been bad and for the destruction of foreign trade and to hold up the American people by high tariffs on good goods and that with I matters have produced a stagnation tion Lion of business all over the world Our banking laws were not what they y should have been although II the federal reserve system was all all i j right in conception but it had to tobe tobe I be patched up as all good new laws have to be patched up to tomake tomake I make them fit so as to defeat a perversion of the banking laws by bythe bythe bythe the briliant brillant sc schemes emes of brilliant speculators That too will soon be amended to protect the business business busi busi- ness public |