| Show r f so 40 A BRITISH OPTIMISTS TO THE U S AND US f aw i by herbert N casson T london england H by courtesy of NV western estern babur the san Franci francisco earth earthquake qualie if I 1 may use that forbidden word cured hundreds of cripples they jumped up and ran for their lives f t they t so badly crippled as the thought they were they didn dian t know that they could run until thel houses began to shake the good book too tolls tells the story of r cripple whose weakness was more in mind than in leg the master said to him rise take up thy bed and walk he rose and walked and carried his bed so here is the thought that L wold lik lika to send to the business men of america you are depressed you are full of fear you think you are crippled but you are not you are afraid of the future you have no need to be you are full of fears you have half the gold of the world you have half the machinery and you have meet of the at tomo blies and all of the skyscrapers t you have the greatest home market in the w world orld and the largest corporations the world has even seen you are ruled more by ideas and I 1 s by tradition than any other people in the world you have usually done what you thought you could do how can it be possible that a progressive nation of one hundred and twenty million people can be wrecked in the sense of a national wreckage by the speculations of a little handful of fools in wall street the prices that were forced too high had to come doain today all the prices are too low there is now a GOLDEN opportunity for every man who has eyes to see prices are 10 lov they will rise dollars are being sold now for thirty cenis cents practically every security in the united states is being sold now at I 1 ess than its value farms and farm values are too low to stay they will rise and fortunes are in tore for those who buy now THE WAY TO CREATE A FORTUNE IS TO BUY FROM pessimists at the prices their fear has created pay your money and tahe take the risk prick frick started his career by buying coke cole ovens in the slump qt of 1873 carnegie made by buying steel plants in slumps hundreds of for fortunes tines have been made by buying from pessimists I 1 ie e gods I 1 what chance there is at this moment in five years from now how many men now afraid will belong to the I wish I had club then it will be too late to buy a dollar tor for thirty cents when a horse balks the balk is in his head NOT IN HIS LEGS he moves on when he thinks think he will and when an Ame emercian relan business man is depres depressed qed the greater part of the slump is in his head there is nothing serious to prevent him from making money if he thinks he will and the present low prices lend him that very opportunity port unity when fear rules the will nothing can be done but when a man casts FEAR out of his mind then the world becomes bis his oyster to lose a bit of money is NOTHING to lose hope is to lose NERVE and AMBITION and THE DARING TO DO it is THAT that makes men this silly depression has gone on long enough get glet rid of it the major part of it is inside of you rou h RISE AND WALK that is the nicest most fit presentation pre of the subject we have yet read and now is the opportunity the opportunity to buy water stock at pessimistic prices locally and land from men afraid after a crop or two well you cant then it will be too late by then the pessimist will be over his scare we are very glad to pass along the wo th while words of this noted briton to our thoughtful re readers allers 1 I editor 4 0 i W SO 5 t w |
