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Show PUBLIC OFFICIALS ASSUME GREAT RESPONSIBILITY, In no presidential year has there been less uneasiness on the part of the general public as to "what is going to happen to the country." From the standpoint of being investors and drawing interest on stocks, bonds or savings bank accounts, the majority of our citizens cit-izens are "capitalists' that is they have money that is earning them money. - Both candidates for president fully realize this fact as do most candidates for other public offices. Political bushwhacking of industry is less popular than ever because every blow that is given industry is a direct attack upon the life savings of many small investors. The capital for our basic lines of industry no longer comes from a few wealthy men but from millions of men, women and children. Business in the United States has to be conducted upon such a large scale today that no one man or group of men have enough money to conduct it alone as in the past. , For that reason most of our business is owned by the great mass of the people who share in the profits and the losses. It is for this reason that all government, local and national must be the most stable. Our public officials who have the law-making and regulating power in their hands are virtually the custodians of the nation's wealth. Just as the executives of an industry are responsible to I the stockholders for profits and losses, so are the officials of government govern-ment responsible for the laws and policies which encourage or discourage dis-courage industrial stability with resulting profit or loss to the citizens citi-zens of this nation. Men quaified to hold public office realize this fact today more ' clearly than ever before and for this reaason do not make as many business disturbing proposals as the past. They appreciate more fully their duty toward all of our citizens rather than special service to any particular group or class. |