Iron County Record | 1922-03-24 | Page 2 | We've Been Trying to Lift Ourselves by Our Boot Straps Long Enough

We've Been Trying to Lift Ourselves by Our Boot Straps Long Enough By GEORQE M. REYNOLDS, Chicago Banker. It is time to tenr off the mask cf fnlse gftj'cty, hnlt the carnival of "extravagance, "ex-travagance, and get down to brass tacks. We've been trying to lift ourselves our-selves by our boot straps long enough. Cprt'l'ons-in the Ujtited Slates have reached n point where federal rogeryo assistance and other mnjor influences of tiding over the effectd'of - tho World war have been nil but exhausted. ' Individual offort is required to save the situation. The clock has been .turned back thirty years, This nation and othor nations of the WQrJd iniisf realize tlu':, fart ami go to work as they had to do thirty -years ago. 1xll- profiteering must cease. Protection of labor or any individual cfa?s can no longer bo obtained by legislation. Those resources re-sources have been oxhausted. ' T am not in favor of lending vast sums of money to European nationg unless we know that tho money ib to be spent in the upbuilding of industries indus-tries nnd tlie putting of the musses to work and not in false extra vagaucea