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Show THE PROSPERITY ARGUMENT It has always been customary to laugh at tho "full dinner pall" argument argu-ment In polities. It Is called a sordid sor-did point of vlow. Yet soclnl advanco Is never possible possi-ble on an empty stomach. Tho churches chur-ches all admit that you can't preach tho gospel to a hungry man. If you want to accomplish reforms, tho country must havo a mensuro of piosperlty. When taxes nro high, factories fac-tories on short time, overy philanthropic philan-thropic and civic servlco organization organiza-tion suffers nnd is compellod to cur tail Its work. That Is why, In choosing our lawmakers, law-makers, the American people should always bo careful to get a body of practical men who will run tho bust ness ot tho country with duo regard to business principles and common sense. No matter how alluring a political platform may sound, It tho party behind It Is going to upset tho business ot tho community, close Its factories, and send Its worklngmcn out on tho road, It Is not fit to tin dertnko tho conduct ot business. Somehow, or other, Domocratlc ad-ministration ad-ministration at Washington always seems to mean dull business. Certainly Cer-tainly the history of tho winter and spring ot 1914 were no exception Tho number ot tho unemployed has been enormous, oven before tho war broko out. A great many factories havo had to run on short time nnd many shut down altogether. Tho trouble has simply been tho assemblages In positions ot powor of n lot of visionary men. They have tho notion that human nnturo can bo overturned, nnd wholesale and sweeping sweep-ing measures ot reform put into effect ef-fect all nt once. But you can't do It. Business needs confidence. Pros porlty is never built on fear. Business Busi-ness men, hearing tho debates in Congress, gain tho Impression that thcro Is a violent nnd widepsread hostility to property. Consequently thoy havo been taking funds out of productive Industry; and locking them up In bonds where at least they can bo sure of getting dollar for dollar. A Republican victory this fnll would glvo confidence to business community commun-ity and would glvo capitalists the courogo to return their money to tho channels of production. |