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Show IT IS PROSPEROUS. The "Stockton Sentinel." People nnd pnpors nro commenting on tho grent prosperity now enjoyod bv this country. Pessimists nnd nlarmlstB jirofess to look &. It with suspicion; claim they see a danger-iitih danger-iitih condition, nnd bnrk against It. Put they need ni)t tear. U tho country Is prosperous It must bo ro-menibeted ro-menibeted that mnn and nnture nro responsible. There Is a great Influx or foreign population: tho crops nro the best In years: Industries nro worklnK ns never before, new torrl-(ory torrl-(ory Is being opened each day, requiring requir-ing now rnllioads: tho railroads require re-quire more steel, motive power nnd cars. These nro all natural conditions. condi-tions. It Is only unnatural conditions brought on by calamity howlers that bring about any other aspect. Again, confidence In. tho provnlllng administration adminis-tration by the people Is ono result or the present prosperity Tho trusts nnd monopolies have stated they see In the policies or Presldont Iloosovelt n rnvi danger and n inonnce. calling him unstable and unrellnblo. Hut tho people have rallied to his standnrd Hinf It Is tho peoplo that mako tho country prosperous . The classes for tho sake of their riches will stop nt nothing to bring about dosired results. Thoy wanted to repudlnto Iloosovelt nnd put In his place some cronture of their own whom they might mold to suit their purposes. Thoy hnvo started cries of "panic," devastation and other alarms, but In every Intsnnco the propositi0!! bus been reactive The trusts must leurn thnt though they nre great, thoy nro not omnipotent, but thnt. on the other hnnd, tho mnsses nro the ones who nro steering the destinies of this nntlon. Let n pnrtv leador be elected to office rfiioni the people do not trust; let confidence l shaken, nnd then the dhe results will follow. Thu peopte become cnreloss, crazed Tb.'y withdraw nionnv from the savluiw banks nnd from circulation; there is not sufllclont specie to meet the demands de-mands of the day; there tire runs n the banks; commerce nnd Industry nrr stagnated nnd hard Mines come Ah Jong as tho people are satlsfM there will bo no hard times- as long as President lloosevolt is In ofllce, thero will ho no panics. In tho days or King Arthur In the) fUth century, a penny was Jho dny'if wage Hut that penny possessed the Eatue relative power of purchnse nnd bxebance thnt the laboring mnn s wag does today In other words, the Inws ur prosperity and panic nro tiastd purely upon n lnw or equnl sup-lily sup-lily and demand, ir living Is hlgn Shese dayB. incomes nro proportionate-itfih proportionate-itfih high The penny or King Arthur Ar-thur time bought nil the necessities Cf life, equally so with the two do!-Jars do!-Jars of today, or at least Insofar as the requirements of the day deninnd. JfcyBriisperoiis times nro here nnd tht, nre the logical sequence ot an ndmlnlstrnilou or Judgment nnd discretion dis-cretion An unstable government would bring nbont hard times und ulstresB |