Show worth being an american candidates advocating public own biship of basic lines of industry are seeking high public office in state an and d national affairs it Is difficult to understand why in a country such as this we should have intelligent persons seeking to destroy the freedom initiative and ambi ambition tiou of 0 the private american citizen and doing it ostensibly in the name of the people in the interest of the commonwealth and tor for the betterment of living conditions we only need to look over the world to realize that america under private development and initiative with a government which encourages the individual to his best efforts has outstripped every other nation where official control of industry and the people has held them don almost to a condition of servitude why should we adopt policies which take away individual rights and liberty why should we want government ownership state or municipal ownership after we have seen its operation opera in other countries in our own cozin country during the war in connection with our railroads and shipping in canada in our great cites and in numerous undertakings where the expenditure ot of public funds has been squandered through the inefficiency of well mean ing but incompetent public officials private initiative and individual ambition not public ownership and governmental ern mental restriction have made our country the richest nation in the world today with only six percent of the worlds population our standards of living are tile the key to the world politics of our time ive we unlock the world war reparations puzzle with the dawes report this american six percent consume one halt half of the worlds lumber ana DONT TRY TO RAISE your duay without it for stomach aches and pains sudden cramps severe intestinal colic and indiscretion of eating and drinking changes change in water diet or of climate take chamberlains chamberlain PS OLIC COLIC and DIARRHOEA REMEDY never fail ail to have it on an hind handl 7 ten times as much plumbing as all europe we produce half tile the worlds cotton but consume more than one fourth of it we six per cent consume over 40 percent of the worlds coal in 1923 we produced more than two thirds of the worlds steel and used most of it ourselves we use two thirds 0 of all the aluminum when california raised carloads citrus fruit we talked over pro last year we ave used carloads i i in all forms li homes mel now I 1 ow use electric current for light power and heat and in 1923 we made and sald vacuum cleaners electric tans fans and washing machines our little six percent own 63 per cent of 0 all the telephones in the world and use them times a year per capita to 16 calls a year per person for the britons conveniences furnished the home owner by manufactured gas and rapid street railway and interurban transportation por tation exceed all other nations the 6 percent americans owned SS percent of the automobiles in the world jan 1 1924 arll now own more to supply gasoline we produce 2000 barrels oil a day and import 82 barrels a year more the american six percent of all the people use more raw materi materials alq and put them through more complex and various processes than all the remaining 94 percent savage and civilized put together according to aug 30 chicago liberty I 1 |