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Show PROSPERITY IN OUR OWN HANDS The prosperity of the American people is in their own hands. It is not dependent upon what people owe us or may do to us, and only in a minor degree upon what other people may buy of us. In the last year it has been demonstrated that with some moderate readjustments re-adjustments this country can be quite fully employed regardless of foreign conditions, and with a good degree of prosperity all around. All that is required is confidence and cooperation, but these are indispensable. For that matter, Europe lacks nothing but these, 'and there can be no prosperity anywhere without them. We are somewhat critical of the peoples of Europe for not promptly setting sett-ing their disagreements, suppressing their miserable suspicions and hatreds, and getting down to teamwork, but we have little to brag of in these respects over Europe, if we judge by the political and industrial in-dustrial news that fills the newspapers. Geo. E. Roberts in National City Dank Bulletin. |