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Show COlTBJiL HUT A 8TRIKINGLY STRONG ARTICLE BY COL. HARVEY. THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD "A Plea for the Conservation ol Common 8ense" That It Meeting With Cordial Approval. A strikingly strong article by Colonel Colo-nel George Harvey in the North American Review, for September, is written in a view of such hopefulness hopeful-ness for the American future that it has attracted wide attention. The article is entitled, "A Plea for the Conservation of Common Sense" and it is meeting with the cordial approval ap-proval of business men of all shades of political opinion throughout the entire en-tire country. In part Colonel Harvey says: "Unquestionably a spirit of unrest dominates tbe land. Out, if it be true that fundamentally the condition of tbe country is sound, 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 for causes, And the root of the distress, dis-tress, which even now exists only in men's minds, and then, after the American fashion, apply such remedies rem-edies as seems most likely to produce beneficent results? Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic. "The Link that connects labor with capital is not broken but wo may not deny that it is less cohesive than It should be or than conditions warrant. war-rant. Financially, the country is Btrongcr than ever before in its history. his-tory. Recovery from a panic so severe as that of three years ago was never before bo prompt and comparatively compara-tively complete. The masses are practically free from debL Money Is held by tho banks In 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. The solo problem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of interests, on the one hand, and the whole people, on tho other, protecting protect-ing tho latter against extortion and saving tho former from mad assaults. "The solution is not easy to find for tho simple reason that tbe situation situ-ation Is without precedent. Dut Is not progress being made along sane and cautious lines? Conserve Common Sense. "Is not tho present, as we have 6cen, exceptionally secure? What, then, of preparations for tho future? Patriotism is tho basis of our institutions. insti-tutions. And patriotism in the minds of our youth is no longer linked solely with fireworks and deeds of daring. It Is taught In our schools. A new course has been added a course in loyalty. Methodically, our children learn how to vote, how to conduct primaries, conventions and elections, how to discriminate between qualifications qualifica-tions of candidates and, finally, how to govern as well as servo. Thoy are taught to despiso bribery and all forms of corruption nnd fraud as treason. Their creed, which they are made to know by heart, Is not complex. com-plex. It Is simple, but comprehensive, comprehen-sive, no less beautiful In diction than lofty In aspiration. Theso aro the pledges which are graven upon their memories: "As It is cowardly for a soldier to run away from battle, so It is cowardly coward-ly for uny citizen not to contributo his share to tho well-being of his country. America la my own dear land; she .nourishes me, and I will loVo her and do my duty to her, whoso child, servant and civil soldier I am. "As tho health and happiness of , my body depend upon each muscle and nerve .and drop of blood doing Its work' In Its placo, sq tho health and, happiness of my country depend upon each cltlzon doing his work in bin place. "Theso young citizens are our hostages to fortune. Can wo not safely asuumo that tho principles animating ani-mating thoir lives augur well for tho pormanoncy of tho Republic? When bofore havo tho foundation stones of contlnuanco boon laid with such caro and promiso of durability? "Tho futuro, then, Is bright. And tho present? Rut ono thing Is needful. need-ful. No present movement Ih moro laudablo than that which looks to conservation of natural resources. But lot us novor forgot that tho greatest great-est Inherent rosourco of tho American Amer-ican pooplo lfi Common Sonso. Iot that bo conserved nnd applied without with-out cessation, and soon it will bo found that all tho ills of which wo complain but know not of aro only such as attend upon the growing pains of a great nnd blessed country. 0 lfflKX3rw -rr- |