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Show SanguinejQhamp.Glark H TN a moment ex-itlMlolTHra'mn cf.uk, in a speech in California the other day pre- iH dieted that an era of marvelous prosperity,, for our country was due to begin in aboutr? sixty H days from the -present time and to continue for H years. M He seems to be obsessed with an old-time ,H piospector's hope, a prospector whose eyes' had IH finally become fixed on a golden mountain w'lilch 11 was to be his when one more ov divide sho'uld 11 be ciossed. j fH 'On what does Mr. Clark predicate his iH prophecy? A great harvest and the demand for il what we have to sell abroad? We have no ships 'immm and freights on foreign ships have doubled. :'; Many of our manufacturers are running full to B prepare war material, but what of the rest? J Is " our trade with Spanish America or the Orient? In- lB creasing? Our country has duiing the past jjear ' been filled with idle men. Have any new Indus- 11 tries been opened to give them places to work? 11 Every day the war continues some thousands of strong men are being killed and the burden B upon the living is being made heavier. B What are we doing in either a commercial or M financial way to open new fields for trade or to M provide work for men who need work at home? M We would not be a passlmlst, but cannot help M but ask In what way Mr. Clark sees any certain H s.'gns of approaching great prosperity? , H |
