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Show ,1 VISIONARY SCHEMES OF STEADY EMPLOYMENT. f The presidential election is but a short time away. j S Ihe usual appeals have been made to the farmer and laboring 1 j men in order to secure their votes by proposing various measures ! purporting to be in their special interest. ! After all the political promises have been made and after all , : the supplies of political mud have been "slung,"' one fact stands out remarkably clear business conditions in this country are re- j turning to normal in an orderly manner. Farmers are getting reasonably good prices for their crops, workmen are getting good wages and industrial output has been re-organized on a sound peace-time basis. With a workable reparations plan in Europe and with Germany , j making her first payments in accordance with the same, world-wide j markets are being opened up and enlarged for American farm and j manufactured products of all kinds. ' With our house set to rights at home and with such a prospect for future activity abroad, it would seem like the height of folley for ; a country such as ours to jeopardize its chances for prosperity by the adoption of radical policies of any kind. Political promises for class favoritism and visionary schemes will not make a market for the farmers' crops nor will they give the workingman steady employment at good wages. It makes no dif- J f crence what party makes such promises, they cannot, in the long run, be carried out. Every newspaper, every campaign speaker, and radio should be enlisted to pin candidates down and make them the practicability or possibility of carving out political promises which they make in appealing for votes. i Whether more business and less politics is instilled in our , government affairs, depends on the sentiment of the American j people as expressed in our coming elections. i If any citizen deliberately votes for an experiment at this time, he should not cry at results, for experiments usually cost money and in public affairs the taxpayer will foot the bill. |
